Landscape Renovation in McLean, VA

Landscape Renovation for McLean Homes

A lot of McLean landscapes were last planned decades ago. Foundation yews have grown into walls, Leyland cypress screens are thinning from the bottom up, boxwood hedges show blight, and the lawn has shrunk under a maturing canopy. A renovation keeps what still works, such as healthy oaks, good stone and well placed specimen trees, and replaces what has failed with a plan built for the property as it stands today.

Renovation work in neighborhoods like Evermay, Kent Gardens and Chesterbrook often starts with a careful edit. Local pros mark trees and shrubs worth saving, remove declining or invasive plants such as Bradford pear, tree-of-heaven and running bamboo, and reset bed lines that have drifted into the lawn. From there the plan may add new planting, refresh old flagstone, fix drainage and bring in lighting so the yard reads as one design again.

Homes bought for the house rather than the garden are common here, and new owners often inherit a yard that never matched the architecture. A renovation can phase work over two or three seasons, starting with clearing and structure and finishing with planting, so the property improves without one large disruption.