Northwest Landscape Services

About Northwest Landscape Services

Out by Lake Meridian, where Kent's newer homes back up to still water that goes glass-flat on the coldest mornings, Northwest Landscape Services trades pruning shears for a shovel the moment frost turns to something heavier. The lake holds its own cold pocket, and a yard within sight of it can carry a skin of ice long after the streets a mile inland have gone back to bare pavement. The crew clears driveways and walkways first, then works the beds where frost has gathered into last season's plantings, careful not to snap what's dormant but still alive underneath. There's a specific quiet out here in a snow, the lake gone silver-gray and still, geese gathered wherever the water hasn't quite frozen. Leaving a driveway bare and a walk path clear, with the beds beside it still holding their shape under a thin white cover, is as much a finish as any spring planting.