Overgrown Shrubs Cut Back and Lawn Brought Back to Sharp

This was a new customer, and the yard had a little bit of everything going on. Overgrown shrubs crowding the front of the house, foundation plantings that had gotten bushy and lost their shape, and a lawn that just needed a clean cut with crisp edges to pull it all together.

We started with the bush trimming. Some of these shrubs had gotten pretty large - the ones flanking the garage and along the front face of the house were pushing well past where they should be. Getting those shaped back makes a huge difference. It lets the brickwork and window trim actually show, instead of being swallowed up by green.

The foundation beds got the same treatment. The barberry and lower shrubs around the bay window were trimmed down to clean, rounded shapes. It keeps everything proportional and gives the beds a finished look without stripping out what makes them interesting.

From there we moved to the lawn. The grass got mowed and edged along the driveway and walkways. That edge line is a small thing, but it does a lot of the visual work. A sharp edge where the grass meets the concrete is what separates a yard that looks tended from one that just looks mowed.

When you take care of all of it at once - the shrub trimming, the bush trimming, the mowing, the edging - the whole front of the property reads completely differently. Everything works together instead of competing. That's what we were going for here, and the result speaks for itself.