About Landscaping Pros McHenry
Licensed and Insured Landscaping for McHenry, IL and Nearby Towns
Landscaping Pros McHenry is a licensed and insured landscaping company serving homes and commercial properties across McHenry, IL and the towns nearby. We look after lawns (lawn care), prune and shape trees and shrubs, plow and salt in winter (snow removal), build paver patios and retaining walls, design and plant new landscapes, and repair sprinkler systems.
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How We Work
- A free estimate first: we visit the property, walk it with you and put the price in writing before any date is booked.
- Utilities marked before we dig: Illinois law requires buried lines to be marked before digging starts, so patio, drainage and planting jobs are booked with JULIE's three-working-day lead time built in.
- Trimming, never felling: we prune and shape trees and shrubs, and leave felling and stump work to others.
- A clean-up after every job: clippings and spoil leave with us.
The Ground Under Local Yards
Most of our work starts with the soil, and here it's glacial. The McHenry soil series, first described in this county, formed in silty material over loamy till on moraines and till plains. Across roughly 37 percent of the county, thick sand and gravel deposits lie within 20 feet of the surface, and there are pockets of peat in low, wet ground. A patio base and a planting bed behave differently on each, so we check the ground before we price.
The climate sets the calendar. The USDA puts the 60050 ZIP code in hardiness Zone 5b: a typical winter's lowest night lands somewhere between −15 and −10°F. At the local weather station, half of all years have seen their last spring freeze by May 1 and their first fall freeze by October 11, leaving a growing season of roughly 162 days, and snowfall averages about 34.5 inches a year. So tender planting waits until the second half of May, sprinkler blowouts are booked by early October and the plows are ready by December.
Licensed and Insured
We're licensed and insured for all of our work. Call (815) 827-1515 for a free estimate.
The Towns We Cover
We work in McHenry and in Ringwood, Johnsburg, Spring Grove, Richmond, Wonder Lake, Fox Lake, Island Lake, Prairie Grove, Lake in the Hills, Crystal Lake and Woodstock. Within town that runs from the Riverwalk district downtown, between Green Street and Riverside Drive, out to Petersen Park on McCullom Lake and down to the McHenry Dam on the Fox River, on the western border of Moraine Hills State Park. More about the area and the services is on our landscaping in McHenry page.
Snow stays on your own land. City code bars anyone from pushing snow or ice off private property onto a public road or sidewalk, or against a fire hydrant, with every day it sits there counted as a fresh offense. So each driveway and lot we plow gets a storage spot agreed before the first storm.
About Us FAQs
Quick answers.
Where are you based?
We're a service-area business: our crews come to you, with no shop to visit. Reach us on (815) 827-1515.
Do you take on commercial properties?
Yes. Stores, offices, HOAs and apartment buildings get grounds upkeep through the season, new planting and winter plowing with walks salted.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. That covers everything on this page.
Will you remove a tree?
No. We trim and prune trees and shrubs. Felling and stump grinding are a tree removal company's job, and if a tree is past saving we'll say so.
How do I get a quote?
Phone (815) 827-1515 or send the form above. We'll fix a time to come out, look at the yard and the ground, and put a no-obligation estimate in writing.
What happens to the waste?
It goes with us. Leaves can also go to the curb: Flood Brothers Disposal, the city's hauler, collects leaf piles on a two-week cycle starting the first full week of October and running into early December.
