Landscaping Company in Raleigh, NC

They call it the City of Oaks for a reason. Old willow oaks line the streets in Hayes Barton, Five Points and Oakwood, and their roots run well past the drip line. Those roots lift walkways, pull water out of beds and shade out lawns that were never going to grow there anyway.

We plan Raleigh yards around the trees instead of fighting them. Shade beds where grass keeps failing. Mulch rings instead of string trimmers against the bark. Hardscape set on a base that does not slice through major roots.

Inside I-440, a lot might be a narrow side yard, a front bed and a backyard you can cross in ten steps. Every square foot has a job. Up in Wakefield, Brier Creek and the newer neighborhoods off I-540, the yards are bigger and sunnier, and the problems are builder-grade soil and wide-open lawns.

Same city, two different jobs. A Raleigh landscaping company should be able to tell you which one you have before it hands you a plan. We work as a landscape design company and as the crew that builds it, so the plan fits the lot you actually own.

Most Raleigh lawns are tall fescue, a cool-season grass that looks great in April and October and fights for its life in August. Under oak shade it thins out every year. We run lawn care in Raleigh on a schedule built for it: mowing high through summer, edging, fertilization, weed control, and core aeration with overseeding in early fall.

As a lawn and landscaping company, we also know when to stop throwing seed at a spot that gets two hours of sun.

Raleigh backyards rarely come flat and empty. There is a tree you want to keep, a slope toward the back fence, a gate that has to stay clear. Our paver and stone patios are laid out around what is already there, with excavation and a compacted base that stays level while the red clay underneath swells in wet months and shrinks in dry ones.

Raleigh sits on the same Piedmont clay that runs across the Triangle, and plenty of neighborhoods are built on rolling ground. Water from the house uphill ends up against your foundation. Downspouts dump onto bare soil and carve a channel to the street.

We fix it with drainage and erosion control sized to the yard: channel drains, catch basins, regrading and stabilized slopes. Fix the water first and the lawn, beds and patio have a chance.

Businesses along Glenwood Avenue, Capital Boulevard and the office parks around the Beltline need grounds that look the same every week. As a commercial landscaping company, we handle commercial landscape maintenance for offices, hotels, apartment communities and industrial sites: mowing, seasonal color rotations, tree and shrub care, irrigation management, and snow and ice treatment on the rare winter mornings Raleigh needs it.

Raleigh summers push dinner outside until well after dark. Low-voltage LED landscape lighting makes that space usable: path lights so nobody misses a step, uplights in the oaks, soft light on the beds and across the front of the house. LED fixtures keep the power bill out of the conversation.

Azaleas, hollies, crape myrtles and boxwoods fill Raleigh foundation beds, and most of them get sheared into lumps. Our tree and shrub care keeps them healthy and in proportion with the house, and keeps limbs off the roof and away from the sidewalk.

And no crape murder. We prune crape myrtles back to clean branch points, not knuckled stubs.

Every estimate is free, and the written quote comes back within 24 hours. Same-day and next-day service is often available. Every job carries a one-year material and labor warranty, and we are fully licensed and insured. Seniors, military members and first responders get a discount, and our crews speak English and Spanish.

We are not the biggest of the landscaping contractors working Raleigh. We are a family business with an A+ BBB rating and 4.9 stars on Google, and every estimate request lands in George Miser's inbox.