Classic Landscaping

About Classic Landscaping

The first frost in Houghton is a thin one — silver across the grass at seven, gone by nine, more of a suggestion than a winter. Classic Landscaping works those mornings: mowing while the season still allows it, cutting edges, pruning shrubs back into shape, raking and hauling whatever the month drops. The old Houghton streets carry gardens with real bones — laurel hedges, rhododendrons the size of sheds, lawns that were being mowed before the town joined Kirkland — and they reward patient upkeep far more than reinvention. Beds get weeded and mulched, borders get held to their lines, nothing is allowed to blur. Handing back a yard that looks like someone has loved it a long while is the good part of the job.