Property Maintenance

Lawn mowing and trimming is one of the best ways to keep your lawn healthy and protect your property value. Grass develops new growth at the crown, so a proper lawn mowing stimulates the plant to become dense and healthy resulting in a rich, thick turf.

Lawns that receive regular chemical treatments are greener, more weed-free, and healthier. Our customized early season applications will give your lawn a great head-start for the growing season. Our special mixture of weed-killing formula eliminates weeds more quickly and is environmentally friendly. Your Landscape Partner uses organic products wherever and whenever possible.
Please view Your Landscape Partner’s, Premium Turf Care Program: 2011′ Program.pdf
Since your lawn needs change over the course of a year, we have created a comprehensive program that provides just the care needed at each point. Call us today for more details: (703) 724-4383.

The heat and dryness of summer has caused a great deal of stress for the lawns in the area. With the cooler temperatures on the horizon, now is the perfect time to schedule your lawn aeration service. Aerating is the best way to improve air/gas exchange and water/nutrient intake. Due to soil compaction throughout the year, lawns rarely thrive without aeration. The benefits of aeration include reducing soil compaction, allowing more efficient watering and fertilizing, enhancing root growth, enriching surface soil, and decreasing water runoff.
Aeration is one of the best things we can do as preventative medicine for lawns. Aeration loosens the soil and allows air, water, and nutrients to reach your lawn roots. It is also the best way to help correct the problem of excessive thatch build-up. Additionally, aeration of the lawn improves drainage and the up-take of water by the grass and encourages deep root growth.

Overseeding your lawn will help to fill in sparse areas where the grass has died off. Our professionals can top dress, aerate, and overseed your lawn resulting in a more lush and healthy landscape that will be the envy of your street.

Thatch is an interwoven layer of mostly dead roots, crowns, and stems. Thatch builds gradually beneath the grass surface and is located between the soil and the green lawn. Since thatch is not as visible as a pesky weed that keeps coming back it sometimes goes unnoticed and untreated. Dethatching or more commonly known as power raking is the process of removing the thatch buildup.

• Thatch can be very damaging for the following reasons.
• Prevents water and nutrients from reaching the plant roots.
• Absorbs pesticide/fungicide, preventing them from doing their job.
• Reduces space available for new grass. When crowded by thatch, new grass tends to grow rapidly as they seek light and space, thus producing long, thin leaves with shallow roots.
• Grass root systems can grow into the thatch rather than into the soil.
• Harbors diseases such as bipolarize leaf spot, summer patch, and dollar spot.
• Aggravates insect problems. Thatch favors insects by hiding them from their predators.

The process of spreading turf amendment organically enhanced soil across the entire surface of the lawn at 1/4″ thickness to:

• Encourage deeper rooting.
• Improve soil structure.
• Reduce soil compaction.
• Improve drought tolerance.
• Uniform texture & consistency.
• Increase water holding capacity.
• Increase air space in soil.
• Add organic matter.
• Add nutrients.
• Loosen heavy clay soils.
• Increase nutrient availability.
• Help reduce soil-born disease.
• Help reduce thatch.
• Increase soil microbial action.

We provide special spring time property clean-up services. We can remove all of the fallen tree limbs, other debris, and dead plants that were the result of harsh winter conditions. We can get your lawn, trees, shrubbery, and plantings in shape and ready for the new growing season.

The proper mulching of your flower, shrubbery, and trees landscape bedding will not only give your property a crisp, clean, and manicured look, but it will also drastically reduce the amount of time spent weeding, watering and fighting pests. Mulching also helps with erosion control as well as keeping dirt from splashing up on your flowers, home, and hardscape features when it rains. We can help you decide which type of mulch would be best for your needs and we will calculate the amount your landscape needs. Best of all, we will install the mulch exactly were and as it is needed.

Weeding is an essential part of landscape maintenance. There is no reason to have a beautiful landscape design, if it is not properly maintained and free of ugly weeds. Your Landscape Partner will provide you with timely and professional maintenance of landscape beds throughout the growing season. All weeds will be removed from the flower beds and disposed of offsite.

The fall can be a little overwhelming to a property owner, as there is so much to do for your landscape. Call Your Landscape Partner to give you a helping hand. We provide leaf removal services and other property clean-up services for the fall. By removing those unsightly, dead leaves, you will be able to better enjoy your landscape during the winter months. Also by removing the dead leaves, your hardscapes, driveway, and walkways will need fewer cleanings as they will have less dirt and stains that would have been caused by decaying leaves.

To maintain healthy and disease free trees and shrub growth we provide fertilization applications that ensure your garden beds are getting the proper nutrients, while also preventing harmful weeds. We will analyze your plantings to customize the right combination of industry leading products to use for your specific application. Our experienced technicians will apply the correct amount of fertilizer to promote maximum health.

Integrated Pest Management (IPM), is a planned program that coordinates economically and environmentally acceptable methods of pest control with the judicious and minimal use of toxic pesticides. Our IPM program is based on a careful and constant monitoring of your property, taking preventive steps to preclude a pest problem. Our goal is to manage and foresee pest problems using a full spectrum of control measures in a coordinated, integrated manner. Along with rapidly identifying and remedying any pest attacks that may occur before damage is severe.

Pruning and trimming is needed to help your landscape flourish. Our professional pruning services will enhance the natural beauty of your trees and shrubs. Pruning will also help you preserve the strength and stature of the plant. Trimming addresses care concerns such as safety, structural integrity, shape and appearance.
Tree trimming is an important maintenance practice in professional tree care. If done properly, it can become an important tool in helping you achieve your dream landscape. There are basically two tree care objectives in pruning trees and trimming shrubs. Hazard reduction tree pruning addresses a specific danger caused by visiblydefined safety issues in your trees. Maintenance tree pruning preserves or improves tree health and structure. Special care is taken to encourage structural integrity, appearance, tree safety and the overall health of your trees.

Tree pruning and tree trimming by tree care professionals provides a variety of benefits to your trees. Tree pruning for health includes the removal of broken, diseased, or dead branches in order to prevent decay-producing fungi from penetrating and infecting other areas of your tree. In some cases, the removal of live branches is necessary to allow increase exposure to sunlight and circulation of air within the canopy.

Developmental tree pruning is the process of trimming trees for structural enhancement. It is accomplished through pruning a tree in its early stages of development. These are the most important procedures for your new plantings to help ensure a desirable branch architecture and structural integrity. In addition, proper tree trimming of young specimens now, will reduce the potential of costly problems and the need for structural support as your landscape matures.

Tree pruning for appearance and restoration is essential for maximizing the beauty of formal plantings and landscapes. In particular, we advocate aesthetic tree care when the characteristic form of your trees has deteriorated.