Landscaping in Michigan is a short growing season between snow and frost. Spring mud, heaved walks, and a lawn that spent months under a plow ridge are the start, not a green-up photo. Salt and sand from the road burn the parkway grass. Clay holds melt against the foundation if the grade pitches back at the wall. Sand sheds water and still leaves ruts where a saturated yard was driven on.
Limbs over a snow-loaded eave fall in spring storms and open the roof. Lake lots take wind that inland trees do not. Pruning is not removal, and it is not stump grinding. Debris has to leave, or it becomes a nest. Say if the wood is over the house, a line, or the foundation. Salt-burned strips along the road are a different repair from a thin shady lawn under mature maples.
Irrigation left full into a hard freeze splits heads and lines, then floods a bed when it is opened in spring. Startup is the time to find those breaks. A new zone is not a crushed-head repair. Lines need to be located before anyone digs. If a backflow device is required where you live, the test belongs with the heads.
Southern lawns take humid summers. Northern yards get a shorter season and heavier shade. Weekly cutting does not mean the same months from the Upper Peninsula to the southern line. Leaf cleanup is its own push. Beds against the house should not hold water or mulch stacked on the siding. If a new plant dies, say who waters after the crew leaves.
Say mowing, drainage, trees, or sprinklers, and say how the winter left the yard. Grade that feeds the basement is not a cosmetic call. A walk heaved by frost is a different visit from a bed that spent the thaw under standing water. Call the number on this page.