The mowing is the part people call about first. The rest is what turns a yard that is merely
cut into one that is actually finished — and it is all the same phone call.
Most people end up with a mowing company for half the year and a plow guy for the other half,
and two numbers that each stop working in the off-season. Everything below is handled by the
same crew, on the same arrangement, from the same 989 number.
Green season
Cut, edged, planted, built
From the first spring clean-up to the last leaf in November — the weekly work that keeps a
property tidy, and the one-off work that changes what it looks like from the road.
Driveways, walkways and small lots opened up through the Michigan winter — plow, shovel and
salt, whatever a particular storm actually calls for. See the winter page ›
DrivewaysWalkwaysSmall lotsSalting
Green season
The work that runs every week.
Weekly through the growing season
Mowing, trimming & edging
Cut on a regular cycle you can plan around rather than whenever someone remembers. Fence
lines and around the mailbox included, clippings dealt with, and the drive and walks blown
off before we pull away.
A rotation through the growing season, not a one-off visit
String-trimming along fences, posts, beds and foundations
A cut edge where the grass meets the drive and the walk
Clippings cleared off the hard surfaces on the way out
The cheapest change on this page
Mulch, edging & bed care
Fresh mulch, a crisp cut edge and beds kept weeded. It costs less than anything else here
and it changes how a property reads from the road more than anything else here.
Beds re-cut to a defined edge instead of drifting into the lawn
Mulch laid at a depth that actually suppresses weeds
Weeding and tidying through the season, not just in April
Stone and block borders where mulch keeps washing out
Design & planting
Landscaping & planting
New beds laid out and planted, tired ones dug over and replanted — shrubs, perennials and
grasses chosen to survive a Michigan winter, not just a catalogue photo.
Bed shapes drawn to suit the house, the slope and the sun
Shrubs, perennials and ornamental grasses that come back each spring
Foundation planting to soften a bare front elevation
Gap-filling where last winter took something out
Twice a year, either end of it
Spring & fall clean-ups
The least glamorous days of the year and the ones that make everything after them look
easy. Winter debris off in April; leaves off and the beds cut back before the ground goes
hard in November.
Spring: debris cleared, beds cut back and re-edged, fresh mulch down
Fall: leaves off the grass and out of the beds, perennials cut back
A final mow before the season closes
Edges, walls and hard surfaces tidied on the way through
Hardscape
The parts of a yard you build once.
Stone and paver work laid out around the property you already have, with the beds and the
grass re-cut around it once the building is done.
Patios & walkways
Paver patios, garden paths and front walks set out to fit the house and the way people
actually cross the yard — not a rectangle dropped on the grass.
PaversFront walksGarden paths
Retaining walls
Stone and block walls to hold a slope that keeps washing out, level off a yard that sits
wrong, or lift a bed up out of the ground.
Slope holdingRaised bedsTerracing
Fire pits & seating
A seat wall and a fire pit turn the far end of a yard into somewhere people actually sit.
Built in stone to match the rest of the property.
Fire pitsSeat wallsStone to match
Where the two meet
Built in stone, kept up all year.
A wall or a patio is not the end of the job. The beds around it get mulched, the grass above
and below it gets cut, and in January the walk beside it gets shovelled. That is the whole
point of one crew rather than three.
The same number you rang in July still rings in January. Driveways, walkways and small
commercial lots plowed, shovelled and salted from the first storm to the last one.