Landscape Maintenance
A maintenance programme written for your garden, not a mowing route
Full landscape management for one Cincinnati property at a time, from a company that can also design and build the next phase of it.
Chapter 01
A programme written for one property
Most maintenance crews working around Cincinnati run a route: mow, trim the edges, blow the clippings toward the curb, and move on to the next stop on the list. That works fine on a plain lawn. It falls apart on a property with real borders, because a rotating crew has no way of knowing that the hydrangea by the front step sets next year's blooms on this year's wood, or that the ornamental grass along the drive gets cut back once, in late winter, and left alone the rest of the season.
Perrino Landscape writes a maintenance programme for the property itself, the same way a design gets drawn before a single plant goes in the ground. The crew that shows up already knows what was planted, where, and why, because in a lot of cases it is the same company that planted it. That is the difference between a mowing contract and a maintenance programme, and it is why some of the properties on our list have stayed with us for well over a decade.
A Perrino Landscape crew member mowing the front lawn of a large stone Cincinnati estate home, with a second crew member near the driveway.
The three moments that decide the year
A Cincinnati garden is mostly decided by three windows rather than by how often the mower shows up. Spring Clean up clears winter debris and opens beds before new growth pushes through it. Spring Pruning follows soon after, timed to each plant rather than to a fixed date on a calendar, since pruning a spring bloomer at the wrong moment cuts the flowers off before they ever open. Fall clean up closes the year out, clearing leaf litter and cutting back what needs to go dormant clean, so the property comes out of winter ready instead of buried.
Frequency matters less than most homeowners assume. A weekly visit on the wrong week does less for a garden than the right visit at the right moment, which is why a Perrino maintenance calendar is built around what a property's own plantings actually need rather than around a fixed number of stops per month.
Chapter 03
Gardens we designed and still look after
Some of the strongest evidence for how this works is simply how long clients stay. Ed and Marsha Haberer's Indian Hill property has been on our maintenance list for more than twenty five years, going back close to when the company first got started, and Debbie Current, who has managed the Wooster Rd office in Cincinnati since 2003 and can be reached at (513) 533-2300, still handles their scheduling herself.
"Perrino Landscape, Inc. is the best landscaper we have ever used on our Indian Hill Property over the last twenty five years. Andy and his staff provide the exceptional attention to detail that is so necessary to maintain all species of plants," say Ed and Marsha Haberer of Indian Hill.
Andy Perrino has run the company since 1999 and still walks properties himself, including some of the oldest relationships on the list. Long standing clients in Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, Anderson Township and Monfort Heights get the same continuity: the crew maintaining a garden year after year is working from the plan the designer originally drew, not guessing at it from whatever happens to be in the ground now.
Attention to detail across every species
A Cincinnati property planted over even a few years usually ends up with a real mix: boxwood hedging, ornamental grasses, spring bulbs, foundation shrubs and shade trees, all wanting something different from the same crew on the same visit. Treating that mix as one undifferentiated lawn is the fastest way to lose plants a homeowner spent real money putting in the ground.
Perrino's maintenance visits are built around that real mix rather than around a generic checklist. Crews are trained to recognize what is actually planted on a property, and the same designers who can rework a bed that has outgrown its spot stay on staff in case a maintenance visit turns up something bigger than a routine trim.
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What a maintained lawn looks like
Striping is a byproduct, not the point
A clean stripe pattern is what a well mowed Cincinnati lawn looks like when the height, the blade and the mowing direction are all being managed on purpose, week to week, rather than whenever a crew happens to get around to it. It is a small, visible sign of a maintenance programme that is actually being run, not just checked off a route sheet.
Related services
Design
Master planning and hardscape integration before a single plant is bought.
Installation
Uniformed crews, supervised through the job, with a plant and care review before they leave.
Lighting
Kichler Design Pro LED fixtures, designed into the landscape and tested before install.