Most landscape maintenance plans cover mowing and edging throughout the growing season, bed care and weeding, lawn fertilization and weed control, and spring and fall cleanup. Design, installation, and tree work are quoted separately.
What’s Included
| Service | What Happens | How Often |
| Lawn mowing | Mow, edge, string trim, and blow clippings off every hard surface | Weekly from April to November |
| Recurring fine gardening | Hand-weeding, deadheading, light shaping of shrubs and perennials | Monthly or biweekly |
| Recurring bed clean-up | Tidying up garden beds, recutting bed edges | Monthly or biweekly |
| Lawn treatments | Pre-emergent, broadleaf weed control, and fertilizer timed to the season | 6 Visits March-December |
| Spring clean-up | Perennial cutbacks, debris removal, edge recutting, dormant pruning, and a fresh layer of mulch | Once in late March to May |
| Fall clean-up | Leaf removal, cutbacks, bed clearing, and winter prep | Once in autumn |
| Winter visits | Property checks for storm damage, broken limbs, and heaved plants | Premium and custom plans only |
| Proactive visits | A walk of the property to catch problems before they grow | 2 to 6 times a year by tier |
The Recurring Work
Lawn Mowing
A mowing visit should leave the whole property looking finished. Watch for a line item that stops at the mower; if edging, trimming, and blow-off show up as separate charges, the number you thought you were comparing isn’t the number you’ll pay.
Recurring Bed Clean Up
Monthly or biweekly visits make your life easier because you know someone is coming to keep up with the weeds.
Recurring Fine Gardening
A lawn can be cut to a perfect stripe and still look tired if the flower beds are scraggly. Whether you choose monthly or biweekly fine gardening depends on how many beds you have and the aesthetic you’re going for.
Lawn Treatments
Mowing and treatments are often lumped together, but they’re separate work with separate schedules. If your lawn is thin, patchy, or weed-ridden, treatments can help.
The Seasonal Work
Spring Clean-Up
The spring clean-up is an annual reset that sets your landscape up for a healthy growing season. During a spring clean-up, we’ll prune dormant shrubs and trees, and we’ll swap out your old, compacted mulch for a fresh layer.
Fall Clean-Up
Chester County’s tree canopy is one of the best things about living here, but it can also create a heavy fall workload. A thick mat of leaves left sitting on turf smothers it, traps moisture, and creates dead patches. A fall clean-up helps prepare your lawn for winter.
The Off-Season
Winter Visits
At Clean Peak, winter visits come with the Premium package or a custom plan. Snow removal is a separate service and isn’t part of winter care.
Proactive Visits
A proactive visit is a walk of your property outside the normal service rotation to look for what’s about to become a problem. Clean Peak includes two to six proactive visits every year, depending on the landscape maintenance package you choose.
What Landscape Maintenance Usually Doesn’t Include
- Tree work beyond low, reachable limbs. Anything needing a climber or a lift is arborist territory, and we’ll point you to one.
- Irrigation startup, blowout, and repair go to an irrigation contractor. We do offer irrigation maintenance as an add-on.
- Plant replacement outside a warranty we handle, quoted separately. Higher package tiers have a plant warranty that covers a good deal of this.
- Pest and disease treatment beyond the lawn goes to a licensed applicator or an arborist, depending on what’s affected.
- Hardscape repair, meaning settled pavers, shifting wall block, and cracked joints, goes to our hardscaping team as a project quote.
- Storm damage cleanup we do, quoted after the storm, since nobody can price it in advance.
- New design and installation is our design team, a separate conversation from maintenance.
- Pond care, power washing, and dormant pruning are add-ons rather than base package items.
- Pet waste pickup is yours, or a service that does only that.
Seven Questions To Ask at Every Estimate
- Does the mowing price include edging, trimming, and blow-off, or are those extra?
- How often does fine gardening happen, and what gets done on a visit?
- Are lawn treatments included or billed separately, and how many rounds per season?
- Is mulch in the price, and is there a limit on how much?
- What’s your response time when I call, and is it written into the agreement?
- Who’s my point of contact? One person who knows my property, or a general line?
- What’s excluded? Ask plainly, and get the answer in writing.
How Clean Peak Puts It Together
You can book these as an annual plan. Our maintenance packages come in three tiers plus a custom option, and they save between 5 and 20 percent over booking piecemeal. (We broke down what each tier costs in a separate post.)
The best part is that when you call Clean Peak, one team handles it all. You call one number, one person knows your property, and nobody shows up wondering what the other crew already did.
See What Your Property Needs
The fastest way to find out what your landscape takes is to have someone stand in it. Book a free on-site assessment, and we’ll walk the property with you, tell you what needs attention now and what can wait, and put together a plan around what your yard already has going for it. Want a ballpark first? Our online estimator gets you a number in a few minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the difference between landscape maintenance and lawn care?
Lawn care is the grass: mowing, fertilization, and weed control. Landscape maintenance covers the whole property, including beds, shrubs, seasonal clean-ups, and mulch. Most full maintenance plans include lawn care inside them, but plenty of lawn care companies don’t touch beds at all.
Is mulch included in landscape maintenance?
At Clean Peak, yes. A spring clean-up includes pulling out old, built-up mulch where needed and laying a fresh layer, and every maintenance package includes a spring clean-up. You can also book mulch on its own, priced by the volume your beds take.
Does landscape maintenance include tree trimming?
Light pruning and shaping of shrubs and low limbs, yes. Anything that takes a climber or a lift is arborist work and gets quoted separately. Ask where a company draws that line before you sign, because it moves from company to company.
Do I have to sign up for a full year?
Annual plans give better results because the work is sequenced across seasons, and they hold your spot on a calendar that fills up. One-time services are sometimes available depending on the schedule.
