Grounds Maintenance

Expert grounds maintenance guarantees the care, feeding and future growth of your lawn and grounds. You have an investment in landscaping. Discover what commercial property owners, home owner’s associations, apartment complexes, and your neighbors know: You protect and grow your landscape investment with professional management.


Your grounds need care year-round

• The term “managed care” describes what’s best for lawns and gardens. Just as with your personal health, managed care of lawns and greenery includes regular checkups, health screening, emergency actions and preventative maintenance.
• It needs to be a year-round effort. As with any investment, proper attention increases value.
• A year-round grounds maintenance plan can eliminate “urgent care” in the spring, and this can save you money. It is far more cost effective to have teeth cleaned than pulled. It also makes budget sense to provide year-round attention to keep your grounds healthy and avoid costly “surgery” and replacement.
• You can choose to enlist our service at any time during the year, allowing a team of arborists and staff to assume care of your lawn and grounds. From that point on, you can rest assured you have filled a year-round prescription for your property.

Three vital reasons for winter grounds maintenance
Rugged New England winters are a time for attention to lawns, even though they are covered in snow and ice for weeks and months.

1. Trampled, slushy snow can cause severe crown damage to the grass. Professional care determines the areas at risk, and not only provides emergency care but also recommends options for reducing traffic on those unwanted paths.
2. Snow mould fungal diseases do severe damage when snow is deep and melts slowly, particularly when a receding snow drift remains for a few days. There are chemicals professionals can use to combat these fungi, and professionals will use shovels and sweat to reduce this winter threat.
3. Grounds maintenance experts will spot bare areas and potential problem areas, so that in early spring they can seed hardier turf to better withstand cold, wet Massachusetts weather.

Spring is the time to formulate a “plan of action”, and then execute the plan flawlessly

• This is the critical time for proper feeding of soil.
• How much to water is a week-to-week decision requiring experts.
• Spring uncovers opportunities to update your landscape design.
• Amateur grounds keepers make two critical mistakes: they fertilize too soon, and they mow too close. The damage these errors cause lawns can be extensive. It is a vital reason for professional grounds maintenance.
• Pruning of shrubs and trees is necessary in spring.

Summertime, when the livin’ should be easy
From scheduled mowing, management of fertilization, weed control and insect management, summer is often the classic time for people to seek lawn and grounds keepers. It is the perfect time to experience how it saves you time and energy.

Gearing up for fall grounds maintenance
Fall is the time to clean-up and to drill down on preparing lawn and garden for the winter ahead. Leaf removal only begins this critical time for managed care.

• The Ph level of the soil requires attention, and usually entails professional application of lime or sulfur.
• This is the time for herbicides on some types of weeds
• Thatch removal is a fall necessity.
• Heavily compacted soil should be aerated.

Regardless of the time of year our partnership begins, a wise investment in the care of your property pays dividends annually.


We proudly offer full-service grounds maintenance throughout the North Shore, Southern NH, and all of metro Boston: Including Boxford, Middleton, Lynnfield, Andover, North Andover, North Reading, Weston, Marblehead and Manchester.