15 Years in the Lower Mainland • Licensed and Insured • Every Clipping Hauled Away
Cedar, laurel, boxwood and photinia, cut to a clean line and shaped so they stay healthy. We work across Richmond from Steveston to City Centre, and we leave your property tidier than we found it.
Richmond sits on the Fraser delta. The land is flat and close to sea level, the soil is silt and clay, and the water table is high. Add wind coming off the water and you get hedge problems that generic advice does not cover.
Different plants want different tools and different timing. Our guide covers when to trim, how often, and what it costs.
The Lower Mainland workhorse, and the least forgiving. Cedar will not regrow from bare brown wood, so it has to be cut back to green every time. Once a face is cut too hard it stays bare.
Big glossy leaves that shear badly, leaving cut leaves to brown at the edges. Better cut with secateurs on the visible faces so the leaves stay whole.
Takes a tight formal line and holds it. Wants thinning as well as shearing so light and air reach the middle, which is what keeps blight and mite damage down.
Grown for the red new growth, so timing is everything. Cut it at the wrong point in the season and you remove the colour you are growing it for.
Same order every visit, so the result is the same whether we are on a single boundary hedge or a whole property.
Most Richmond hedges want two cuts a year. One is enough for a slow growing boxwood, and a fast cedar on a mild wet spring can want three.
Cutting after the soft spring growth has firmed up gives a line that holds. Cut too early and it is soft again within weeks.
The tidy up that carries the hedge through winter. We stop before the cold arrives, because late cuts push soft growth that the first frost damages.
Birds nest in dense hedges, and active nests are legally protected in Canada. Roughly April to August is the risk window.
We check before we cut. If a section is occupied we work around it and come back, rather than taking the hedge and the nest together.
It is one of the reasons a spring booking is worth making early.
We quote per property after seeing it, because hedge work is driven by length, height, species and access, and those are different at every address. Whatever the number, it includes all of this.
Having the beds done at the same time is usually cheaper than two visits. We also handle yard cleanup in Richmond and mulch installation in Richmond.
Cedar, laurel and boxwood each get different tools and a different finish. Shearing everything the same way is what leaves brown edges and bare bases.
Clippings collected and hauled away on every visit. No bags on the kerb and nothing pushed into the back of the border.
Fifteen years working across the Lower Mainland, on private gardens, strata grounds and commercial frontages.
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Excellent yard care and maintenance
Lorraine Patterson
February 1, 2024
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It has been a pleasure to work with Kaushik and the Splendid Landscaping team over the years in servicing our home. They can be counted on to meticulously maintain our landscape and will work with us to find solutions to our needs. I would recommend Splendid to other home owners.
Rkl L
February 1, 2024
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Been trimming our hedge for the past few years and always great friendly professional service at a reasonable price
Dave Wheeler
February 8, 2024
Also part of our wider hedge trimming service across the Lower Mainland, alongside tree pruning.
Twice a year suits most Richmond hedges, usually late spring and late summer. A slow growing boxwood can manage on one cut. A vigorous cedar in a mild wet spring sometimes wants three.
It depends on whether there is any green left on those branches. Cedar does not shoot from bare brown wood, so bare stays bare. What we can do is open the top and sides so light reaches the lower growth, and check whether wet ground is the real cause, which it often is on delta soil.
Where we can reach it safely and lawfully, yes, and the finish is much better for it. You are entitled to cut growth that crosses onto your property. Reaching over onto theirs needs their agreement, so it is worth a quick word before we come.
Yes, always, on every visit. Sheets go down before the first cut, everything is collected and hauled off, and paths and drives are blown clean before we leave.
We check first. Active nests are protected, and roughly April to August is the risk window. If a section is occupied we work around it and return once the birds have finished.
It comes down to length, height, species and access, so we quote after seeing the hedge rather than publishing a rate. The quote covers cutting, shaping, cleanup and haulage, with nothing added afterwards.
Usually, though on a badly overgrown cedar it is often better done across two seasons. Taking too much at once exposes bare wood that will not green up again. We will tell you honestly which case yours is.
Yes. We maintain grounds for strata councils and commercial sites across the Fraser Valley and the Lower Mainland, on regular schedules with the same crew each visit.
Tell us roughly how much hedge you have and we will come and look at it. You get a written quote covering cutting, shaping, cleanup and haulage, with nothing added afterwards.
Call 604-260-0348 or fill out our online form for a free quote.
