Creating A Lush and Welcoming Landscape

Landscaping services can help your yard look great, but that isn't the only reason to consider investing in them. Regular lawn and yard care helps reduce hazards that can make your yard an unsafe place for your family and pets. The following are just a few examples of the dangers a service can help you avoid. 

1. Rut Smoothing

Over time ruts can form in the ground due to frequent traffic or the path of repeated mowing. The ruts aren't always obvious to the eye, but the uneven ground can create a tripping hazard. Your landscapers can fill in ruts without damaging the lawn. They will also take steps, such as varying mowing patterns or recommending places for installing stepping stones, that will help minimize future rut formation. 

2. Tree Trimming

Falling branches can injure anyone below or cause damage to parked cars and other property. Pruning your trees and taller hedges each year reduces the chances of dangerous branch fall. Landscapers primarily offer this service in late winter or early spring, although you can have dangerous branches removed at any time of year. 

3. Edge Management

Edging the lawn around paths and sidewalks may seem like more of a cosmetic service than a safety service at first glance. The truth is, grass growing over the sides of the pavement can create hazardous conditions. It narrows the clear walkway, which poses a challenge for those pushing strollers, as well as for those in wheelchairs or using other mobility aids. Further, the grass can eventually lead to damage and crumbling along paving edges, thus leading to cracks and tripping hazards. 

4. Hazard Prevention

A lot of different items in the yard can become a hazard when they are camouflaged by overgrown grass and plants. Decorative boulders, old stumps, and even raised brick edging can lead to trips and falls. Keeping up with trimming, weeding, and lawn cutting not only prevents these items from becoming hazards, it also allows them to add to the aesthetic appeal of your yard much more effectively. 

5. Pest Reduction

Overgrown lawns and landscaping beds can harbor unwanted pests of both the animal and insect persuasion. Chances are you don't want a yard overrun by disease carrying mosquitoes, burrowing skunks, or gnawing rodents. Weekly landscaping services ensure that nothing becomes overgrown or otherwise becomes an attractant to any of these types of pests. 

Contact a landscaping service near you for a more attractive and safer yard.