Landscaping Services In Sherborn, Ma - Commercial & Residential Landscape Company

Spring Clean-Up

Winter does a number on your property. You've got dead branches everywhere, matted down leaves in the beds, leftover salt damage near walkways, and all kinds of debris that piled up over the cold months. Spring cleanup is about getting everything reset so your landscape can actually grow the way its supposed to.

We start by clearing out all that winter mess - removing the leaves and sticks, cutting back dead perennial growth, and getting the beds ready for mulch. A lot of people don't realize how much damage can happen if you just leave that matted organic material sitting there. It blocks sunlight, traps moisture in ways that promote disease, and gives weeds a perfect place to get started before your plants even wake up.

Around Sherborn, spring cleanup usually needs to happen in late March or early April, depending on when the ground thaws out. If you wait too long, you're working around new growth which makes everything harder. Plus you miss the window to get pre-emergent weed control down, which means you'll be fighting weeds all summer.

We also check for any winter damage to plants - stuff that might of broken under snow weight or gotten munched by deer when food was scarce. Catching this early means you can decide what needs replacing before everything leaf's out and hides the damage.

Fall Clean-Up

Fall cleanup might be even more important than spring, even though people don't always think about it that way. This is your chance to put the landscape to bed properly so it comes back strong next year.

The obvious part is dealing with leaves. Sherborn has alot of mature trees, which is great for shade and property value but means serious leaf volume in October and November. If you let those leaves sit on your lawn all winter, you're looking at dead grass and potential fungus issues come spring. Same with flower beds - a thick layer of wet leaves will smother pretty much anything underneath.

But fall cleanup is more than just leaves. It's also about cutting back perrenials, removing annual plants that are done for the season, and doing a final weeding pass before everything goes dormant. This is when you want to get rid of any diseased plant material so problems don't overwinter and come back to haunt you.

We usually do fall cleanups in two or three passes, depending on how many trees are dropping leaves on your property. First pass gets the early stuff, final pass waits until everything's done falling. Some properties near Farm Road or around the Town Common need extra attention because of all the mature oaks and maples.

Bi-Weekly Weeding

This is probably the service that saves property owners the most time and frustration. Weeding every two weeks keeps things manageable instead of letting it turn into an all-day project every month.

Weeds are opportunists. They show up wherever there's open soil, sunlight, and water. Which basically means everywhere in your landscape. And they grow fast - way faster than your actual plants most of the time. Miss a few weeks and suddenly you've got stuff going to seed, which means next year's weed problem just got ten times worse.

Bi-weekly weeding catches things while they're still small and easy to pull. We go through all your beds, around hardscaping, along fence lines - anywhere weeds like to hide. It's not glamorous work but it makes a huge difference in how your property looks.

The other benefit is that we're seeing your landscape regularly, so if something else needs attention - a plant that's struggling, irrigation that's not working right, pest damage - we catch it early. Way better than finding out about a problem after its been going on for weeks.

Summer is obviously peak weeding season, but spring and fall matter too. Weeds in spring compete with your plants right when they're trying to get established. Fall weeds go to seed and create next year's problems. Staying on top of it year-round is the only way to actually get ahead.