SPRING CLEANUP SERVICES

Spring Cleanup Services

Beds cut back, winter debris cleared off the beds and the lawn, and the whole load hauled away rather than left at the kerb. Across the Fraser Valley, and booked by the state of the ground rather than by a date.

Licensed and insured

BCLNA certified

Everything hauled, nothing left at the kerb

A written quote before we start

Where a Cleanup Ends and Lawn Care Begins

This is the thing worth settling before you book, because it is where expectations usually come apart. A spring cleanup is a clearing job. It gets the garden ready for the season and takes the winter away with it.

Beds cleared of fallen leaves, needles and windfall
Perennials and grasses cut back where they should be
Bed edges recut against lawn and path
Debris raked off the lawn so light reaches the grass
Paths, steps and the drive blown down
The whole load taken away, inside the quoted price

What a cleanup is not. Making a tired lawn thick again is a different job with a different quote. lawn care covers the moss control, feeding and overseeding side, and lawn aeration is its own job again where the ground has gone hard. We will tell you which one your lawn actually needs when we walk it, rather than selling you a tidy up and letting you discover the difference in June.

Topping up the beds afterwards sits with bark mulch. Bigger structural pruning goes to tree pruning, and a standing schedule through the year is landscape maintenance.

What Not to Cut Back Yet

An enthusiastic early cleanup can cost you a season of flowering. Three things are worth leaving alone, and a good cleanup works around them rather than through them.

Bulb leaves, for 6 to 8 weeks

After daffodils and tulips finish, the leaves are still building next year's flower. Standard guidance is to leave the stem and all the foliage for six to eight weeks after bloom, and take it off only once it is brown and pulls away by hand.

Growth the winter damaged

You cannot reliably tell what is dead until new growth is away. Cut in February and you often take live wood with the dead. We would rather come back to it than guess.

Anything still sheltering buds

Old stems and last year's flower heads on some shrubs are protecting the buds behind them. They come off when the buds move, not on the first dry Saturday in March.

What Winter Leaves, and When the Ground Is Ready

A Fraser Valley winter does not so much kill a garden as flatten and clog it. What we usually find is a mat of wet leaves packed under the shrubs where the rain drove it, windfall from the storms, bark and gravel washed off the beds and onto the paths, bed edges that have disappeared into the lawn, and growth that started in a mild February and now needs sorting out.

On when: the honest answer is by condition, not by date. The ground wants to hold a boot print without squelching, because working saturated soil compacts it and you will feel that all summer. And it is better done before growth is properly away, so the cutting back is a tidy job rather than a salvage. In a wet year that window moves, which is why we would rather look than promise a week.

If what you actually have is a heavy leaf load rather than a spring reset, the fall yard cleanup guide covers that job, and leaf cleanup is a service on its own in Langley.

Spring Cleanups Across the Fraser Valley

The cleanup itself is the same job everywhere. What changes is what the local authority will take away, how far the load has to be carried, and how much of it there is. Those are on the city pages.

Not on the list? We cover more of the Fraser Valley than we have pages for, so ask us or check the areas we serve.

Spring Cleanup Questions

When should a spring cleanup be booked?

Go by what the soil is doing, not by the month. It wants to be dry enough to walk on without squelching, and the cutting back is easier before growth gets going. In a wet year that lands later than most people expect.

Will a spring cleanup fix a mossy or patchy lawn?

No, and it is worth being clear about it. A cleanup clears and tidies. Making a thin lawn thick again is lawn care, which is quoted separately, and where the ground has compacted it is lawn aeration on top of that.

Do you take the waste away?

Yes, all of it, and it is inside the quoted price rather than added afterwards. Nothing is left bagged at the kerb for collection day.

Why would you leave some of the dead growth?

Because some of it is not dead and some of it is doing a job. Bulb leaves feed next year’s flower for six to eight weeks after they bloom, and winter damaged stems are hard to judge until new growth shows. Cutting early costs you flowers.

Can you do a cleanup and then keep it up?

Yes. Most people book the cleanup first and then a regular schedule from there, which is landscape maintenance and priced as its own thing.

How long does a spring cleanup take?

A typical residential garden is a day or less. It depends far more on how much material is coming out and how far it has to be carried than on the size of the lot.

Do you take trees down as part of a cleanup?

No. Removals and stumps go to a certified arborist or a removal contractor, and so does anything above what a platform safely reaches.

Do you power wash the patio while you are there?

No, that is not a service we offer. A cleanup blows the hard surfaces down so they are clear and safe, which is a different thing from washing them.

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Book a Spring Cleanup

Tell us roughly how big the garden is and how much you think is coming out of it. We will walk it, say what we would leave until later and why, and put a written price against the rest. You can also contact us first.