The hills here are unglaciated and the clay over shale is notoriously slide-prone on cut slopes. A retaining wall in this country is a structure, not a garden feature.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Day Heights sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Day Heights
Drainage answers here depend entirely on where the soil thins. Over deeper clay, water is moved with pipe and grade the same way it is anywhere in Ohio. Over shallow limestone it can move laterally along the rock in ways that surprise people, which is why we probe and shoot elevations before quoting rather than assuming.
Alkaline soil over limestone rules out the acid-loving plants that do well on sandstone an hour east — no rhododendron, no blueberry, no pin oak. What thrives instead is a limestone-country palette: redbud, hackberry, chinkapin oak, little bluestem, purple coneflower and prairie dock.
What Day Heights properties need most
The practical package for a property like this is usually the same: get the water right, get the turf established properly, keep the beds edged and mulched, and have one contractor handling snow so nobody is looking for a plow in December.
The order that gets the most from a budget is almost always the same: drainage and grading first because everything else sits on top of them, then hardscape with sleeves and conduit run for anything you might add later, then structural planting, then beds and mulch, then lighting.
Winter in Day Heights
De-icing matters more than plowing on a typical winter here, because the freeze-thaw cycle produces more ice events than deep snow. Material should be selected by pavement temperature and applied at calibrated rates — over-salting damages concrete, kills the turf edge along drives and costs money for no benefit.
The most valuable winter preparation happens in November — leaves off the turf so it does not mat under snow and grow snow mold, evergreens watered deeply before the ground freezes, drive and walk edges staked, and drainage outlets cleared so meltwater has somewhere to go.
What Day Heights properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Clermont County demand rather than by what is easiest to sell.
- Retaining Walls & TerracingEngineered walls with real drainage behind them — turning slopes you cannot mow into space you can use.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
- Tree & Shrub TrimmingPruned at the right time of year, to the right cut — so plants stay in scale instead of getting sheared into boxes.
- Lawn Mowing & Property MaintenanceWeekly mowing, trimming and edging on a schedule you can set your watch by — residential and commercial.
- Paver Patios & HardscapingPatios and walkways set on eight inches of compacted base — the reason ours are still flat after ten Ohio winters.
- Spring & Fall CleanupsThe two visits a year that decide how the rest of the season goes — debris out, beds reset, leaves gone.
Why Day Heights property owners choose us
We know Clermont County ground
Clermont County sits in the Bluegrass / Lexington Plain, where clay over shale and limestone, prone to creep and slippage on cut slopes. We plan around that rather than applying a template written for another part of the state.
We fix the water before anything else
Every dollar spent on plants or hardscape sitting on ground that stays wet gets spent twice. On Clermont County soil we diagnose drainage first — and often the honest answer is two downspouts rather than a system.
46 Google reviews, licensed and insured
Verbatim reviews from neighbours across the region, full coverage on every crew and machine, and financing available so a full plan can be built in one season.
One contractor for all four seasons
Landscaping April through November and snow and ice through the winter, from the same crews. The people who stake a drive in November are the people who mowed it in July.
Nearby places we also serve
Day Heights sits in Clermont County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
