Blackberry, bindweed and hardhack do not start in your hedge. They come in from the ditch bank or the open ground behind it, where nobody is cutting anything.
By the time you can see it, blackberry is usually through the middle of the hedge and rooted on the far side. The green face can look perfect with a thicket behind it.
Shear the outside and the hedge looks fixed for a month. We pull what we can reach from inside and cut the rest back to the stem, then tell you it will return from the field side.
Where we work in Pitt Meadows. The Harris Road neighbourhoods, Bonson and Osprey Village, the lanes out toward Pitt Polder, and the properties along Rannie Road and Sturgeon Slough. Bark mulch for the beds under those hedges is on the Pitt Meadows bark mulch page, and the neighbouring city is covered on the Maple Ridge hedge trimming and Maple Ridge landscaping pages.
What we refer out. Taking a tree down is not something we do, and neither is stump grinding: both go to a certified arborist or a removal contractor. Anything above what a platform safely reaches goes the same way. A hedge trim does not include spraying, so we cut and pull what we can reach by hand instead.
Pruning ornamental trees is on the tree pruning page. Regular lawn and bed visits are on the landscape maintenance page, and hedges can sit on the same schedule or be booked on their own.
Yes, all of them, and they never go over a ditch edge. That water is a primary irrigation source for farmland here, and cuttings raked into it catch on a culvert and become the City’s problem.
Yes. We set up on whichever side holds weight, and we do not put a ladder on a sloping bank. If one face cannot be reached safely you will hear that before you get a price, not afterwards.
We take out what is reachable and sever the canes low where it is not. Expect it to push back in from whatever is growing behind the hedge, so on a field edge treat this as an ongoing item rather than a one time repair.
It depends on the hedge. A laurel or cedar screen usually wants more than one cut across a growing season if you want a crisp face, and one if you are happy with a softer outline. Boxwood and slower mixed hedges need less.
If the far side of your hedge is their yard or a working field, we ask before stepping onto it. Where that is not possible we cut from your side and the top and tell you what the back face will look like.
Yes, from the Harris Road neighbourhoods and Bonson and Osprey Village out to Pitt Polder, Rannie Road and Sturgeon Slough.
No, that is arborist work and we will point you to one. The same applies to stumps, and to anything higher than a platform can safely reach.
No, spraying is not part of a hedge trim. Anything we clear around the base is done by hand.
