Landscaping in Portland is a drainage trade that sometimes includes a mow. Rain for months, fir needles, and moss decide the ground. The west hills shed water at a house on a slope, and a bed in the wrong place becomes a funnel to the crawl. The east side is a little drier and still needs the winter grade. A weekly cut is the small chapter. Getting water away from the mudsill is the chapter that keeps the wood.
Downspouts that die at the step, and mulch piled on the siding, hold damp against the paint and the rim. Extensions and a bed line below the siding are the work. Limbs over the roof drop needles that dam the gutter, so tree work and a roof look go together. Exposed east-side plantings still need a plan for the dry stretch.
Define how often you cut, what a soaked week changes, and whether needle cleanup is included. A schedule copied from a dry summer climate will be wrong by the first long rain. Heads that spray the house undo the grade and feed the rot at the corner boards. A controller running through a wet month belongs in the call. Say if the paths are slick with moss, because that is a footing problem, not a color problem.
You do not need a drawing to start. You need the direction the hill sheds and whether the crawl has already been wet. Planting at the end of the wet season without a water plan is how the row fails in the dry weeks that follow. Say if watering after the install is included. A fir against the gutter is tree work and a roof deadline. Say if that limb is why you called.
Say the part of Portland and whether the ground still sheds away from the house. Say grade, trees, mow, or drainage. Mention the west hills if the slope is the whole problem, or the east side if the yard is only a little less wet. The next rain will use the low corner either way. Call the number on this page.