Boscage Landscaping

About Boscage Landscaping

On the bluffs above the Mississippi the old oaks hold their shade long into a June evening, and the lawns beneath them grow thin and particular, nothing like the open yards out on the flat. Boscage Landscaping — the word means a thicket — works with that shade rather than against it: mowing at a height the grass under a canopy can live with, pruning shrubs to let air move, mulching beds so roots stay cool. Evening is the best hour up on the bluff, the river going pewter below while the final pass lays a clean line along a bed edge. Shaping a yard here is slow, deliberate work, and it holds for weeks after the truck pulls away. The route covers Davenport, Bettendorf and Riverdale.