For commercial property owners and homeowners in Naperville, Illinois, a long winter can create a dire need for a spring clean-up in the yard. The abundant moisture received during winter has its benefits — snow melts and the ground thaws to reveal radiantly beautiful lawns.
However, overgrown grass, weeds, and flooded yards can stand in the way of outdoor enjoyment in the warmer months. If you long for a pristine outdoor sanctuary, lawn care, maintenance, and other landscaping services can prove necessary.
Why spend your free time laboring in your yard with questionable results? Ware Landscaping offers routine, professional spring clean-up services for Naperville and the greater Chicago area. Let us take care of your lawn so that you can relax and enjoy your yard.
What is spring clean-up?
Spring clean-up is a vital aspect of lawn care and landscaping that occurs as the bleakness of winter disappears. There are many categories of tasks included in these services, and a professional team can help to accomplish them quickly.
The spring clean-up services offered by Ware Landscaping include:
Yard Blow-Out:
This entails a blow-out of your garden beds, lawn, and yard drainage system. Essentially, this means any trapped debris and sediment and accumulated frozen water or excess water will be freed. This allows your yard to start with a clean slate before any seasonal rains begin.
Edging:
Edging is a process to ensure your mulch remains where it belongs. This also helps with weed prevention and ensuring grass doesn’t crop up where it doesn’t belong.
Depending on what you choose to do, edging can include creating gravel, pebble, or mulch pathways which enhance the appearance of your yard while working to maintain its health. Edging can also help make lawn mowing easier by protecting flower beds and gardens.
Plant-Trimming:
The trimming of any shrubs, bushes, and plants around your property will foster healthy, natural growth and help prevent overgrowth.
Pest and Weed Control:
By using pet and kid-friendly organic fertilizer, you can prevent pesky insects and weeds.
Laying Down Mulch and Sod:
If your mulch or sod needs replacement, spring clean-up is the best time to begin. Hardwood mulch is a great option to allow your flowers, plants, and trees organic nourishment and the ability to thrive.
Weekly Lawn Mowing:
Once your yard is cleaned up, weekly lawn mowing services can help to continually maintain edging and healthy grass growth and nourish your soil.
Why a spring clean-up matters in Naperville
The humid climate in Naperville means that property owners may contend with issues not present in more arid regions. For instance, grass grows more quickly, standing water can form in an improperly graded yard, and foundational cracks could let black mold and mildew infiltrate your home.
If you choose to hire seasoned landscaping professionals to help you overcome these obstacles and take pride in your yard, the lawn care and maintenance provided could make a huge difference.
Spring clean-up services ensure that your lawn begins the warm seasons with a foundation that keeps your yard sparkling and inviting. Some of the ways spring clean-up helps your yard to thrive include:
Debris Clean-Up:
Moisture can cause debris, dirt, and sediment to pile up on your lawn and prevent healthy growth. Debris can also provide a perfect breeding ground for insects and fungi. A spring clean-up can make these issues easier to handle throughout summer and fall.
Aeration:
Blow-outs help loosen compact or hardened soil and provide the nutrients your topsoil needs to bolster thriving plant growth.
Flooded Yard Prevention:
By cleaning the debris from your yard drains and ensuring that your yard is properly graded, your lawn can be protected from excess stormwater and provide healthy water runoff. Thus, when heavy rains come, you won’t have to worry about pools of standing water and the stress they bring.
Increased Property Value:
Your yard gives potential buyers (or customers of commercial properties) the first impression of your property. This is known as “curb appeal” and can greatly impact the value of your home.
A study from Michigan State University found that well-maintained landscapes with great curb appeal can increase the value of a property by 5% to 11%.
Providing a New Foundation:
Regardless of the wear and tear your yard endured in the winter months, spring clean-up services can allow your outdoor areas to start anew for the year.
The difference between lawn care and lawn maintenance
Lawn care and lawn maintenance are both important aspects of landscaping. Although the two aren’t synonymous, both are included in the Ware Landscaping spring clean-up services.
Let’s take a look at the differences between lawn care and lawn maintenance.
Lawn care services include:
Providing for the overall health of the lawn.
Pest control
Provision and implementation of mulch, sod, and fertilizer
Aeration services
Maintaining yard drainage systems
Lawn maintenance focuses on maintaining the appearance of your yard. Lawn maintenance services include:
Edging
Mowing
Bush, plant, and tree pruning
Weed control
Organic lawn services
Both lawn care and lawn maintenance services are necessary to keep your yard looking great, and Ware Landscaping packages often include both.
How Ware Landscaping can help
For over two decades, Ware Landscaping has helped Naperville property owners get the most out of their yards. Our professional landscapers are passionate about the well-being of our neighbors, and we’ll work with you to determine which of our services will help you enjoy the yard of your dreams.
Our Naperville spring clean-up services allow you to start each year off by taking pride in your yard.
We provide all the necessary equipment and expertise for your spring clean-up, and can help alleviate your stress over mounting manual labor needs. We also offer summer and fall clean-ups to ensure your yard remains pristine.
The Ware Landscaping team can save you wasted time, and our services are cost-effective. We will explore yard solutions with you, and help create a customized solutionbased on your needs. Don’t let the disastrous yard blues get you down. Connect with us for a consultation today.
“I contacted Mike at Ware Landscaping for help with fixing my flooded backyard and garage. Mike gave me an honest assessment of my situation and recommended the right system to fix my problems (a lot of issues). Ware Landscaping installed drainage, underground downspouts, underground sump pump lines, driveway drains and surface drains in the yard to fix all my problems.. The team was very professional and always asked for my approval on work being done before it was completed. They did a great job and we are very pleased!”
Jim Kristof
I recommend him without any hesitation.
“We had a water problem in our basement that Mike Ware completely eliminated by removing both our sump pump water and downspout water away from the home. He was professional and highly motivated to solve the problem and do it the right way. I always felt like a priority and that my project mattered. I recommend him without any hesitation.”
Michael Swider
FANTASTIC JOB!!!
Ware Landscaping did a FANTASTIC JOB!!! I needed my entire backyard regraded and they filled it in with more than 2 truck loads, installed a French drain and put new beautiful green sod on top. They also power washed and reset my front retaining wall. Communication from the beginning was always very good. We always knew when they were coming out. The project was completed on time as well. They also called on their own a month after the project to check on the sod and were willing to replace some spots due to the June heat wave. Would recommend Ware Landscaping to all!!!”
Dan Malloy
The entire crew were incredible, so friendly, knowledgeable, and paid attention to every detail.
“Mike, Greg and the rest of the crew made our back yard dream a reality with a drainage system to remove the stream that flowed through the middle of the yard, which flooded every rainstorm and stuck around for weeks. To complete the look in came a perfectly designed beautiful hardscape patio that we can’t wait to use this summer. The entire crew were incredible, so friendly, knowledgeable, and paid attention to every detail. Highly recommend!”
Katie Jankowski
The crew was fast, friendly, and tidy.
“We had a wooden deck for a front porch that was starting to age. When we removed it we saw that there was a concrete slab underneath it that was pitched toward our house, creating an issue with standing water up against our foundation. We had Mike come by to advise us on the best solution, and he suggested permeable pavers. We were able to come up with a custom design with him that day. The crew was fast, friendly, and tidy. I’m sure they do much bigger jobs than our little patio, but this project made a huge difference for our home.
