Kettle-and-kame country means soil can change completely across a single lot: gravelly, sharply drained till on the rise and saturated organic muck in the hollow forty feet away. One drainage design will not serve both.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Perry sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Perry
Hardscape has to be detailed for a wet subgrade rather than an average one. That means over-excavating where the ground is soft, separating clay from the aggregate base with woven geotextile, and carrying roof water past the hardscape in solid pipe before a single paver is laid.
Terracing is usually the better answer than one tall wall. Two shorter tiers can avoid the engineering threshold, look better, and turn the ground between them into a genuinely useful planting bed — provided they are spaced far enough apart that the upper wall is not loading the lower one.
What Perry Township properties need
Deer pressure on properties backing to woods decides the plant list before anything else does. Arborvitae and yew are the two most commonly planted shrubs in Ohio and the two deer strip first. Spruce, juniper, boxwood, ornamental grasses, catmint and Russian sage hold up.
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 Perry
Drifting is the underestimated problem on open ground here. A drive can be clear at dawn and closed by mid-morning with nothing new falling, because wind is moving what already fell. Return passes should be written into the agreement, and drive edges staked in the fall so the pavement line can be found when a drift buries it.
Walks, entries, stairs and ramps deserve their own line item rather than being assumed under a plowing scope. Most winter liability attaches to pedestrian surfaces, and a plow truck cannot reach any of them.
What Perry Township properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Stark 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.
- 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.
- Tree & Shrub TrimmingPruned at the right time of year, to the right cut — so plants stay in scale instead of getting sheared into boxes.
- Spring & Fall CleanupsThe two visits a year that decide how the rest of the season goes — debris out, beds reset, leaves gone.
Why Perry property owners choose us
We know Stark County ground
Stark County sits in the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, where clay loam over till and shale, with slopes that erode fast when left unplanted. 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 Stark County soil we diagnose drainage first — and often the honest answer is two downspouts rather than a system.
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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
Perry sits in Stark County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
