Landscaping Services in McHenry, IL

Lawn, Tree, Snow, Patio, Design & Sprinkler Services

This page lists every landscaping service Landscaping Pros McHenry offers to households and businesses across McHenry, IL and the towns nearby. In order of how often people search for them, they are lawn care, tree and shrub trimming, snow removal, patios and other hardscaping, landscape design and planting, and sprinkler repair. Each one has its own page with the detail and typical prices. Every crew is licensed and insured, and tidies up before leaving.

Our Landscaping Services

• Lawn Care & Maintenance: weekly mowing and edging, feeding, weed and grub control, core aeration, overseeding and leaf cleanups
• Tree & Shrub Trimming: crown raising, pruning, hedge and shrub shaping, new planting and mulch, with no tree removals
• Snow Removal: plowing for driveways and parking lots, sidewalk shoveling, salt and de-icer
• Hardscaping & Patios: patios in pavers or stone, block retaining walls, walks, fire pits, outdoor kitchens and low-voltage lighting
• Landscape Design & Installation: planting plans, new beds, shrubs, sod, mulch, grading and drainage
• Irrigation & Sprinkler Repair: head, valve and leak repairs, fall blowouts, spring start-ups and new systems
• Commercial grounds: upkeep, planting and winter plowing for stores, offices, HOAs and multi-unit buildings

Regular Upkeep Through the Season

Some services come round on a schedule. Lawn care is the largest of them. Mowing is weekly from spring into fall. The McHenry weather station's median growing season is about 162 days long, and feeding, weed control and aeration all have to fit inside it. Shrubs and hedges are trimmed at the point in their year that suits each plant, so a lilac that flowers in spring and a yew hedge aren't cut on the same day. Sprinkler systems need a start-up in spring and a blowout in fall.

Upkeep is priced per visit or per application. The estimate looks at the size of the lawn, how much edging there is, which shrubs and hedges need attention and how many zones the sprinkler system runs.

Projects That Reshape the Yard

Other work happens once and lasts for years: a paver patio or retaining wall, a new front yard, sod over a tired lawn, regrading for a yard that holds water, or a new sprinkler system. Projects are priced after a site visit, and the ground under your yard decides a lot. Around McHenry, the moraines carry silty soil on top of loamy glacial till; elsewhere there's sand and gravel, and peat lies in old lake beds and wet hollows. So we dig and look before we set a patio base or choose plants.

Projects often meet. A new lawn is the moment to lay sprinkler pipe, before the sod goes down, and a patio usually needs beds and planting to finish it, so we plan the pieces together wherever they overlap.

Snow and Ice Through the Winter

Winter work is snow and ice. NOAA's 1991–2020 normals put annual snowfall at the McHenry station at about 34.5 inches, most of it from December through February. We plow home driveways and business parking lots, shovel walks and steps, and salt or de-ice once the snow is off. Under City code, snow pushed from private property can't end up on public streets or sidewalks or against hydrants, so each driveway and lot gets a plan for where the snow is stacked before the first storm.

A Year of Yard Work Around McHenry

Northern Illinois fits a lot into a short season, so when each job happens matters as much as the job itself. This is how the services fall across a typical year:

• January and February: plowing, shoveling and salting, and a good time to plan a new landscape so planting can begin once the ground can be worked
• February to early March: dormant pruning of deciduous trees, while they're bare and every branch can be seen
• March and April: spring cleanups and the first mowing once the ground has dried, and patio building again as the ground frost goes, generally between mid-March and early April
• Spring, once the frost is out: sprinkler start-ups, when the soil is frost-free about 12 inches down
• Late April into early May: the crabgrass preventer goes down
• May and June: spring feeding and fast growth, shearing of evergreen hedges such as yew and arborvitae as new growth begins, and tender plants from the second half of May, since the median last freeze is May 1 and there's about a 1-in-10 chance of one after May 19
• July: weekly mowing and preventive grub treatment
• August to early September: the main lawn feeding and the seeding window for overseeding
• Late September and October: sprinkler blowouts before the first freeze, which comes around October 11 in a median year at the local station, with about a 1-in-10 chance of one before September 27; core aeration and broadleaf weed control, both of which Extension says suit fall best
• October into early December: clearing leaves, and mowing until the lawn stops growing for the year
• December onward: snow season again

Oaks don't follow the pruning calendar. The Morton Arboretum's advice is to leave them uncut between mid-April and mid-October, since fresh wounds attract the beetles that carry oak wilt.

Homes, Businesses and HOAs

For homeowners, the services run from a weekly mow to a new backyard patio. For commercial properties, including stores, offices, homeowners' associations and apartment complexes, we look after the grounds through the season, install new landscaping and plow and salt lots, drive lanes and entrances in winter. A business lot needs the same snow-storage planning as a driveway on a larger scale, with piles kept off sidewalks, away from hydrants and out of drivers' sight lines as they pull out.

In the city or the county? Some rules depend on the address. On City of McHenry water under normal (green) conditions, lawn sprinklers may run only on calendar dates that match the house number (even on even, odd on odd), and not on July 31 or August 31; hand-held hoses and drip lines are exempt, and tighter limits apply when the City declares a yellow or red condition. The City's permit fees include a line for retaining walls taller than 4 feet. Out in unincorporated McHenry County, a wall no higher than 4 feet needs no building permit unless it holds back extra weight, such as a driveway above it. We check which rules apply to your address before work is booked.

Our landscaping in McHenry page has more about the area we cover and how we work.

How Booking Works

A price costs nothing and doesn't commit you. Phone (815) 827-⁠1515 or use the form at the top of the page, and we'll arrange a time to walk the property with you. For upkeep we measure what each visit involves. For projects we look at the ground, the slopes and where water runs, then put the estimate in writing before anything is booked.

Anything that involves digging, from a patio base to a shrub bed or a sprinkler trench, waits for a JULIE locate. Illinois law requires buried utilities to be marked first, and JULIE asks for at least 3 days' notice, excluding weekends and holidays, and no more than 10, so that lead time is built into the start date. JULIE's members mark only their own lines, so private ones such as existing sprinkler pipe and yard lighting are found separately.

Typical Landscaping Service Prices Around McHenry

These typical prices are drawn from the research behind each service page: cost guides plus price pages from contractors around Chicago, with Chicago-area figures used first wherever they exist. Each service page breaks its prices down further, and your estimate is the figure that counts.

Landscaping Services FAQs

Quick answers for anyone deciding which service they need.

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