Our Mission:
To make your yard as
inviting as your home -
and keep it that way!

Indianapolis, Brownsburg,

Avon, Plainfield

We offer full service professional lawn and yard care and maintenance, including weekly maintenance, periodic fertilizing, and a variety of other lawn and yard maintenance activities.

Weekly Service

Our regular weekly lawn care includes lawn mowing, trimming around all trees, walls, edgers, flowerbeds and other objects in your yard, plus edging of driveways, sidewalks, curbs, and patios.

Mulching

There are a variety of mulches available with which we can refresh or replace your mulch. We recommend heavy mulching as it reduces weeding maintenance and improve water retention, reducing the need for watering. The new rubber mulches, while more expensive, are also longer lasting, and because of their higher density will not wash away.

Lawn and Flower Fertilizing

We use dry fertilizer on your lawn. Wet fertilizers are absorbed through he leaves and, while they quickly make your lawn greener, they also discourage good root growth which makes your grass much less drought resistant.

We also recommend fertilizing your flower beds. Use of appropriate fertilizers in your flower beds encourages blooming and hearty plants with strong roots that will help the plants stay healthy through hot dry weather.

Weed Control

Weed control is accomplished with a spray on broadleaf weed killer that will not harm your grass. Crabgrass is an annual grass that re-seeds each year. It is controlled using a product that keeps the crabgrass (and other weed seeds) from germinating.

Tree Pruning

Tree pruning requires knowledge of different types of trees. For instance, Bradford Pear trees have become very popular over the last few years. But Bradford Pear trees grow their limbs too close together which makes them too weak to stand up to heavy wind, ice, and snow when they mature. The solution is to remove many of these branches while the tree is still fairly small. Without this trimming a strong windstorm or bad ice storm will tear a mature Bradford Pear apart.

Shrub trimming

We will trim your shrubs as needed. Hedges in particular require careful attention to proper shaping and control of size. If allowed to overgrow, hedges are often difficult to get back into good shape.

Spring/Fall Cleanup

Spring Cleanup involves refreshing mulch and cleaning up any winter debris, cleaning out gutters and clearing downspouts. Some trees prefer pruning in late winter or early spring. Any ornamental grasses should be cut down in early spring just before they start to grow for the new season. Fall cleanup includes the obvious leaf pickup and gutter and downspout cleaning, plus appropriate pruning of those trees that prefer pruning in the fall. Roses should be bedded in the fall, either with appropriate foam cones or with heavy mulch for winter protection.

Aeration

Aeration can significantly improve the quality of your turf by reducing excess thatch, making room for root growth and breaking up soils that contain a large amount of clay. Aeration can be accomplished at a reduced cost by coordinating with your neighbors to have several yards aerated at the same time.

Seeding, Slit Seeding and Over-seeding

Often new lawns do not come in well, especially if they are put in during the summer months when it is hot and there is little rain. If the grass is thin but well distributed, often over-seeding will help to fill in the grass to help make it thicker. If there are bald areas of any significant size, it will be necessary to put down seed with a binder that will keep the seed from washing to the edges of each area when it rains. If the lawn has a lot of bare spots then slit seeding will probably be needed to fix it. In slit seeding, a special machine cuts slits in the ground it puts seed into the slits. This leaves the existing grass intact, and fills in the bare spots. If the lawn is very sparse, it may make more sense to start over. Many new homes do not have proper ground preparation before seeding. By starting over the soil can be amended by adding appropriate materials and tilling them in before reseeding. Seeding or re-seeding is best done in fairly early spring or early fall, when the weather is cooler and the rain more frequent.

Leaf Removal

We can remove fall leaves from your yard, flowerbeds, ivy, gutters and roof valleys. We take appropriate care to avoid any kind of damage to either plantings or your home.

Beautiful Lawns and Patios, LLC - BLandP1663@aol.com
 (317) 271-5697 847-1632; 442-9527; 308-9583