The Two Calls That Frame the Year
Seasonal Landscape Cleanup in Utah
We’re a Park City design studio, and our crews handle seasonal cleanups across Summit, Wasatch, and Salt Lake counties — properties that live through 150 to 200 inches of snow and a hard freeze every winter.
In this climate, the year has two hinges. The spring cleanup wakes the property up, clears what winter left behind, and sets the season in motion. The fall cleanup closes it down and decides how well the property comes through the cold. Get those two right and everything in between is easier.
Most firms treat cleanups as a one-off booking. For us, they’re the bookends of the stewardship relationship — and on many properties, we’re cleaning up work we designed and built ourselves.
Fall Cleanup
The fall cleanup is the one that matters most and gets skipped most. It’s the work that decides how a property survives the winter.
We handle leaf and debris removal, the final cuts of the season, perennial cutback, and the cleanup that keeps disease and rodents out of the beds over winter. We blow out the irrigation before the first hard freeze, clear and protect drainage so snowmelt has a path in spring, and prepare the plantings and hardscape for the cold and the snow loads ahead. A property that’s properly closed down in fall comes through winter in shape — and is far easier to wake up come spring.
Spring Cleanup
Spring in the Wasatch arrives late and all at once. The spring cleanup is how a property catches up.
We clear the debris, branches, and matted growth that winter left behind, cut back perennials and ornamental grasses, clean and re-edge the beds, refresh mulch, and handle the first feed of the season. We start up and test the irrigation, check the drainage after snowmelt, and look over every planting for winter damage. By the time we’re done, the property is awake, clean, and ready for the growing season — and we’ve caught anything the winter broke before it becomes a bigger problem.
Featured Projects
Work shaped by place.
Old Ranch Road.
Stone terraces designed for mountain runoff and winter durability.
The North Bench House.
Terraced stonework shaped for steep mountain grades.
Mountain Majesty Manor.
Built for mountain winters and year-round living.
Where We Work
Park City, Heber, Midway, Salt Lake County, Summit County, Wasatch County, and select properties across the Wasatch Front. The season turns differently on either side of the divide — different timing, different snow load, different growing conditions — and the cleanup changes with it.
The studio is built for one region, and the crews know its seasons intimately.
How Cleanup Fits the Stewardship Relationship
A cleanup is not an isolated visit — it’s a checkpoint in a year-round relationship. The same crew that designs, builds, and looks after a Prime property is the crew that shows up in spring and fall, and they already know the site.
That continuity is the whole point. The team doing your fall cleanup knows where the irrigation runs, which plantings struggled last summer, and where snowmelt tends to pool. They’re not re-learning the property each visit — they’re reading it continuously across the year, so the cleanups, the summer care, and the winter snow service all add up to one property looked after by one team. For the homes on a year-round plan, the two calls that frame the year are simply part of the relationship, handled before you have to ask.
questions you may have
Frequently asked questions
When should spring and fall cleanups happen?
The spring cleanup happens once the snow is reliably gone and the ground has thawed — often later than people expect at altitude. The fall cleanup happens after the leaves are down but before the first hard freeze, so the irrigation can be blown out in time. For properties on a plan, we time both off the property and the forecast.
Do I need both cleanups, or just one?
Both do different jobs. Spring wakes the property up and sets the season; fall closes it down and protects it through winter. The fall cleanup, especially the irrigation blow-out, is the one that prevents real damage — skipping it is what splits lines and stresses plantings.
Do you do cleanups for properties you didn't build?
Yes. We handle seasonal cleanups for established landscapes across the Wasatch Front. We start by walking the property so we understand its drainage, plantings, and irrigation before the first visit.
Is the irrigation blow-out included in the fall cleanup?
For the properties we look after, winterizing the irrigation is part of closing the property down for the season. It has to happen before the first hard freeze, so we coordinate it with the fall cleanup rather than leaving it as a separate thing to remember.
Can cleanups be part of a year-round plan?
Yes — that’s how most of our clients do it. The spring and fall cleanups are the bookends of a year-round stewardship plan, handled by the same crew that knows the property, so they happen on the right schedule without you having to book them.
Start a Conversation
Looking after a property starts with a conversation about how it moves through the seasons.
We design, build, and look after the work — one team, on one property, across every season. The spring and fall cleanups are simply where the year begins and ends.