Winter Landscape Protection

What This Service Involves

Puget Sound winters bring saturating rain, occasional hard freezes, and windstorms that can batter an unprotected landscape. We prepare properties by wrapping or mulching tender plants, protecting containers, and guarding surfaces prone to freeze-thaw damage. Draining and insulating irrigation components helps prevent cracked lines when a rare deep freeze arrives. We also address drainage and pooling so heavy winter rain does not drown roots or undermine hardscapes over the wet season.

Benefits

Protects tender plants from freeze and wind damage; Prevents cracked irrigation from occasional hard freezes; Reduces root rot by managing heavy winter rain; Guards hardscapes against freeze-thaw damage; Sets the landscape up for a strong spring recovery

Our Process

1) Inspect the property for freeze-sensitive plants and drainage issues; 2) Mulch, wrap, and shelter vulnerable plants and containers; 3) Drain and insulate irrigation lines and backflow devices; 4) Improve drainage to move standing winter rainwater away

What Affects the Cost

Property size and number of plants needing protection; Extent of irrigation winterization required; Materials such as mulch, wraps, and burlap; Drainage corrections needed for wet-season runoff; One-time prep versus a monitored winter plan

Best Time of Year

Complete this work in mid to late autumn, before the first hard frost and the arrival of sustained Puget Sound winter rains.