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3 Ways to Enhance Your Landscape: Pruning, Edging and Mulch

A well landscaped yard goes beyond just healthy grass.  There are 3 steps we take to make a yard stand out: pruning, edging and mulch:

Pruning: To start, we would recommend pruning and trimming any shrubs, to a desired shape and size.  Winter is the best time to do any rejuvenation pruning if you would like to reduce the overall size of the shrubs including roses, boxwoods, holly’s and many others.  Trees, such as crepe myrtles can be trimmed with corrective pruning, by removing any dead, hanging or crossing branches.  Ornamental grasses, including liriope can also be cut back late winter.  By trimming your trees and shrubs during the winter, it will ensure they grow and fill in correctly during the springtime.

Edging: Once all the shrubs have been trimmed and debris has been cleaned up, it is a great time to edge and redefine any landscape beds.  You may also create or extend ...

Here are 10 landscaping services we recommend for the fall and winter months:

1. Leaf removal

We recommend keeping the lawn free of leaves, sticks and other debris which may accumulate during the fall and winter months. This will also protect the lawn from insects, pests, and disease. Leaf removal can be provided with routine blowing into wooded areas or the curb for city pickup, mulched with the lawn mowers to recycle organic nutrients, or collected and disposed off-site.

2. Shrub removal

Fall and winter is the perfect time to remove any dead, overgrown or unwanted shrubs, and prepare for replacing with healthy new ones. We are properly equipped to remove and dispose shrubs of various sizes, including the roots.

3. Shrub replacement

Shrubs can be removed and replaced with healthy new ones to enhance your landscape.

4. Gutter cleaning, Blow off roof

We recommend cleaning the gutters and blowing off the roof in the fall and...