Fifty-year-old neighbourhoods like Craig Henry, Trend-Arlington, and Parkwood Hills have what new suburbs cannot buy: mature trees, established hedges, real soil. What they need is renovation – lawns thinned by shade brought back, beds overgrown by decades cleared and replanted, and grading that settled generations ago corrected.
Mature canopy means shade – we renovate lawns with the right seed and honest turf alternatives.
Decades-old cedar hedges reduced and reshaped without killing them.
Older lots drain into their own low spots – we re-establish the grades.
Nepean is where Ottawa's landscaping ages gracefully – or does not. The bones are excellent: deep lots, mature maples and oaks, hedges with real presence. Our Nepean work is renovation: bed refreshes that clear decades of overgrowth, hedge reductions that bring giants back to shape, and lawn renovation tuned for shade.
Sixty-year-old lots have sixty-year-old grading. Soil settles, additions and pools changed the water paths, and spring melt finds the foundation. Our grading and drainage crews spend a lot of their season in Nepean for exactly this reason – and a dry basement is worth more than any patio.
Nepean homeowners tend to be second- or third-owner households investing in a long-term home. That is our favourite kind of project: redesigns that respect the mature landscape instead of bulldozing it, and care programs that keep it dignified year after year.
All of the former city – Craig Henry, Trend-Arlington, Parkwood Hills, Centrepointe, Merivale Gardens, Barrhaven's Nepean side, and everything between Baseline and Fallowfield.
Under heavy canopy, sometimes not – and we will say so. Options that work: shade-mix overseeding, expanding beds under the trees, or artificial turf in the deepest shade. We recommend what fits the light you actually have.
Usually yes, with staged reductions over a season or two rather than one brutal cut. Nepean has some of Ottawa's oldest and largest hedges – we would rather rescue them than replace them.