Everything costs more on a slope, and pretending otherwise is how projects stall halfway through. We would rather show you the retaining and drainage number up front than discover it after the plants are ordered.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Falls sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Falls
The soil here is thin and acidic, which is an advantage if you plant to it. Oaks, sourwood, blueberry, rhododendron, mountain laurel, little bluestem and native ferns are genuinely at home in sandstone-derived ground. Standard nursery stock bred for amended garden loam struggles, and no amount of fertilizer changes that — matching the palette to the soil does.
Access dictates the budget more than material choice does on hill ground. Where a machine can reach the work, walls and drainage runs are affordable; where everything is hand-carried up a slope, the same scope becomes days of labour. We look at access before quoting and say plainly what it means.
What Falls Township properties need
Long drives are their own project. Grade, a crowned surface that sheds water, ditching at the edges and culverts that are actually clear determine whether a rural drive survives a wet spring — and whether it can be plowed cleanly in January.
Phasing does not save money in total — mobilising a crew three times costs more than once — but it spreads the spend across seasons, which for most households is the difference between doing the work properly and doing a compromised version now. The plan does not change, only the calendar does.
Winter in Falls
The winter work that protects a landscape is mostly done in November: leaves off the turf so it does not mat under snow and grow snow mold, evergreens watered deeply before the ground freezes so they have a reserve to draw on, drive and walk edges staked, and drainage outlets cleared so meltwater has somewhere to go in February.
A written agreement settles at 5 a.m. what nobody wants to argue about then: the trigger depth, the surfaces included, the response window and how de-icing is billed. Everything that goes wrong with snow contracts traces back to something that was never written down.
What Falls Township properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Hocking 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.
- Drainage Solutions & Yard GradingFrench drains, swales and regrading that move water away from your foundation before it costs you a basement.
- Lawn Mowing & Property MaintenanceWeekly mowing, trimming and edging on a schedule you can set your watch by — residential and commercial.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
- Mulching & Landscape Bed MaintenanceCrisp cut edges, correct mulch depth, and beds that stay clean instead of needing a rescue every July.
Why Falls property owners choose us
We know Hocking County ground
Hocking County sits in the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, where thin, sharply acidic sandy soil over sandstone that suits ericaceous plants and defeats most standard nursery stock. 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 Hocking 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
Falls sits in Hocking County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
