By Neat & Tidy Landscaping
Evan Le 
Customers ask us for low-maintenance yards all the time. My honest answer is simple: have less to maintain. Picture a two-story house with a front yard, two side yards, and a big backyard. There might be a lawn, hedges, ornamental shrubs, trees, and garden beds full of plants the owner didn’t even choose. Every one … Read more
You just bought a townhouse in North Seattle. Maybe it’s your starter home. You’re starting a family. You’re in a good school area, close to work, and you’ve got restaurants, shops, parks, and everything else you wanted nearby. Great. You move in. You clean up your little yard. You live there for six months. Then … Read more
Hey guys, we’ve been getting a series of cleanup projects involving rock beds and natural stone retaining walls. When these areas are weeded and cleaned up, they look beautiful. A home that sits a little higher than the sidewalk can have more privacy, a better view, and a landscape with some character. But that beauty … Read more
Every day in landscaping feels like a new episode of a TV show. I’ll meet a homeowner in Seattle, then someone in Bellevue, then someone in Issaquah. They all have their own lives and their own stories, and for a brief moment—sometimes just during an estimate—I’m part of one. I’m not saying I’m the hero … Read more
We carry a lot of tools in our landscaping trucks, but we use the same few tools on most blackberry removal jobs: hedge trimmers, brush cutters, grub hoes, pickaxes, shovels, rakes, buckets, and, of course, a dump truck. You can get the tools. The harder part is knowing how to use them together, getting into … Read more
You ask, we answer: what tools do we use to remove bamboo? The list is fairly simple. We use hand saws, loppers, and sometimes a chainsaw to cut the canes. Below ground, we use pickaxes, shovels, mechanical saws, power hammers, digging bars, and spades to cut and pry through the rhizomes. We also leverage full … Read more
Customers often ask me what tools we use to remove English ivy. The answer is surprisingly simple. We use hedge trimmers, loppers, grub hoes, rakes, and buckets. You can buy these tools yourself. The harder part is knowing how to use them together—and having the patience to keep going until the job is done. We … Read more
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. That’s true of a lot of invasive plants. You start recognizing blackberry, ivy, and bamboo everywhere. Then one day you learn what Japanese knotweed looks like, and suddenly you notice it along roads, near waterways, and in people’s yards. I see knotweed on properties around Seattle fairly … Read more
I like seeing more landscaping content online. With all the talk about technology and automation, it’s exciting to see people pay attention to the trades. I watch videos about tools, equipment, jobs, and how other contractors run their businesses. Sometimes I see a different way to solve a problem we’ve dealt with ourselves, and I … Read more
Landscapers are yard waste management companies. That’s what we really are, especially when it comes to yard cleanups and restoration work. People focus on the tools, the trimming, the pruning, the planting, and all the things that make a yard look good. But the part no one really talks about is the waste. At the … Read more