Hedge Trimming in Carrollton, GA
Hedge trimming in Carrollton, GA — shrubs, hedges and foundation plantings cut back to a clean line, with the clippings hauled off instead of kicked into the bed.
Anthony Phillips · owner-operated · Carrollton, GA
In short: shrubs get shaped, the line gets straightened, and the mess leaves with me. Overgrown foundation plantings are the fastest way to make a well-kept house look neglected.
Why overgrown shrubs matter more than people think
It is not only how it looks. Foundation plantings that have grown into the wall trap moisture against the siding and brick and stop that area drying out after rain. Shrubs across a window cut the light out of a room and give anything living in them a bridge to the house. Branches over a walk are how people get scratched carrying groceries in.
There is also a slow, one-way version of this problem: a hedge that is only ever sheared on the outside gets wider every year and thicker on the surface, while the inside goes bare and woody from lack of light. Left long enough it reaches a point where cutting it back to the size you wanted exposes dead brown wood that never fills back in.
How I cut them
Slightly wider at the bottom than the top. That is the one rule that matters and it is the one most commonly got backwards. A hedge tapered the wrong way shades its own base, and the bottom thins out and goes bare while the top thickens.
On anything badly overgrown I would rather take it back over two seasons than scalp it in one go and leave you looking at a row of sticks for a year. If you want it down to size immediately I will do it — I will just tell you first what it is going to look like for a while.
Clippings get cleared. Blowing hedge trimmings under the shrubs is the standard shortcut and it leaves a mat of debris sitting in the bed rotting against the stems.
Bush trimming as part of lawn care
Trimming is one of the seasonal jobs that sits underlawn care and mowing in Carrollton, and it pairs naturally withmulch and bed edging — cut the shrubs, edge the bed, mulch it, and the front of the house looks completely different for the price of one visit.
It is also worth doing beforewindow cleaning, since shrubs grown across the glass have to come off it before anyone can reach the window.
Hedge trimming questions
When should you trim shrubs in Georgia?
For most evergreen shrubs, late spring after the new growth hardens off, with a lighter tidy-up in mid summer. Avoid a hard cut back in late autumn.
Cutting hard late in the year pushes tender new growth right before the first frosts, and that growth is what gets burned. Spring-flowering shrubs like azalea are the exception — prune them soon after they finish blooming, because next year's buds set on old wood over the summer.
How far back can you cut an overgrown hedge?
It depends entirely on the plant. Boxwood, holly, ligustrum and most broadleaf evergreens take a hard cut back well. Junipers and most conifers do not — they will not regrow from bare brown wood.
That single difference is why an overgrown juniper often has to be replaced rather than rescued. I will tell you which one you have before I cut, not after.
Do you haul the clippings away?
Yes. Clippings get collected and taken with me, not raked into the back of the bed or blown under the shrubs.
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Anthony Phillips · Carrollton, GA