Service Area · Bucks County
Holland is Northampton Township suburbia at its most typical — 1970s and 1980s developments where the original landscaping has now had four decades to grow, and mostly to outgrow its position.
The neighborhoods off Buck Road and around Holland Middle School went in over roughly two decades, on comfortable suburban lots. The planting that came with them followed the convention of the era: fast-growing evergreens tight against the foundation, a feature tree or two in the front lawn, and shrub borders along the property lines.
The forty-year-old foundation planting
Forty years on, those fast-growing evergreens have done exactly what they were always going to do. Junipers and yews planted three feet from the wall are now pressed against the siding, blocking windows, holding moisture against the house and hollow through the middle from decades of shearing.
There are three honest options and we will tell you which one your property is actually in. Some of these plantings can be renovation-pruned back over two or three seasons and given another decade. Some are too far gone — particularly junipers, which do not regenerate from bare wood at all, so once they are hollow they cannot be reduced. And on some properties the right answer is a redesign, because the original plan put the wrong plants three feet from a wall and no amount of pruning fixes a plant that wants to be twelve feet wide.
Lawns under maturing canopy
The other forty-year change is light. Trees planted as saplings in 1980 now cast serious shade, and lawns that were full sun when they were seeded are now marginal. Where there is still reasonable light, a shade-tolerant blend and fall overseeding will hold it. Where the canopy has genuinely closed, the sensible answer is bed and groundcover rather than an annual argument with the grass.
Deer
Same as the rest of Northampton Township: substantial, persistent, and worth designing around. The wooded strips between developments are effectively deer highways.
Common questions about Holland
My junipers are hollow inside. Can they be saved?
Usually not, and this is the one where we will not encourage you to try. Junipers do not regenerate from bare wood, so once the interior is dead the plant cannot be reduced without permanent gaps. Replacement is the honest answer.
The lawn is thinning as the trees have grown. What are the options?
Shade-tolerant seed and fall overseeding where there is still light; converting to bed or groundcover where the canopy has closed. Selective thinning of the canopy sometimes buys real improvement, and we will say when it will not.
Do you serve the whole Holland area?
Yes, and the rest of Northampton Township with it.
What We Promise in Holland
- We answer the phone. Miss us and you hear back the same day.
- Written estimate within one business day of walking your property.
- A message the day before every scheduled visit.
- Something not right? We come back — no argument, no charge for the trip.
Where we usually start
- Tree & Shrub Care in Holland
- Landscape Design & Installation in Holland
- Lawn Care & Maintenance in Holland
- Patios, Walkways & Walls in Holland
- Mulch & Bed Maintenance in Holland
- Spring & Fall Cleanups in Holland
- Drainage & Grading in Holland
- Snow & Ice Management in Holland
- Irrigation & Sprinklers in Holland
- Sod & Lawn Renovation in Holland
- Outdoor Lighting in Holland
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We will tell you honestly which of those forty-year-old evergreens are worth saving and which are not. Free walk-through, and a written estimate within one business day.