Fall planting & privacy screening
Fall planting and privacy screens that actually take.
Fall is the best planting season Charlotte gets. From roughly October into early December the soil stays warm while the air cools, so new trees and shrubs put their energy into roots instead of fighting the heat. That is exactly what a privacy screen needs to establish, which is why screens planted in fall are the ones that look full two summers later. Tell us what you want blocked from view and we will design the planting for your property line.
Prefer to talk? Call or text (704) 741-9798. You'll hear back usually within the hour.
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- Serving Charlotte and surrounding areas
What we handle
Fall planting & privacy screening in Charlotte, NC.
Tell us what you need and where the property is. You'll get a clear quote and a spot on the schedule, all handled by one local team you get to know.
Privacy screening design and installation
Evergreen trees: arborvitae, hollies, and laurels
Ornamental trees and foundation shrubs
Bed refreshes and replacement plantings
Send a photo of the view you want gone (the neighbor's new second story, the road, the power line) and rough measurements. We will suggest the right plants, sizes, and spacing, and quote the installed job.
When is the best time to plant trees and shrubs in Charlotte?
October through early December is the strongest window, and September works for container plants if watering stays steady. Charlotte's soil holds warmth long after the air cools, and roots keep growing until soil temperatures drop into the low 40s, which here can mean active root growth into January.
A tree planted in fall gets six to eight months of establishment before its first summer. The same tree planted in April meets July heat with the root ball it left the nursery with, and it spends its first year surviving instead of growing.
What makes a good privacy screen in Charlotte?
The right plant at the right spacing, not the fastest one on the internet. 'Green Giant' arborvitae is the workhorse here: fast, dense, and comfortable in our clay. 'Nellie R. Stevens' holly makes a tighter, darker screen for narrower spaces, and skip laurel handles the shadier runs where arborvitae thins out.
Spacing is where screens are won or lost. Plants set too close look full in year one and choke each other by year five. We space for mature width, and where you want faster coverage we stagger a double row so the screen reads solid without sacrificing the plants.
How fast will a privacy screen fill in?
'Green Giant' arborvitae puts on roughly two to three feet a year once established, so a six-foot tree is often a twelve-foot screen within a few seasons. Hollies and laurels grow slower but denser. The establishment year is the quiet one, which is another argument for fall planting: the screen spends that quiet year rooting instead of struggling.
Meet the owner
Hi, I'm Justin.
I'm a homeowner before I'm anything else, and when my own place needed work I did exactly what you're doing now: called around, chased down a pile of companies, and ended up with a stack of quotes and no real way to tell who was actually any good.
So I built the thing I wish I'd had. Instead of rolling the dice on strangers, I keep a small bench of specialists I work with every single day. I know who the best turf guy in this area is, who I trust with hardscapes, and who I've stopped using because they didn't meet my bar.
I match the right one to your job, I set the scope and the price, and I check the work. These crews answer my calls differently than they'd answer yours: to them you're a one-time customer, to me they're protecting their next fifty jobs. You get that priority, and you deal with one person, me. One quote, one bill, one number to call.
“If something's ever not right, you don't chase down a crew. You call my cell. And I answer on Sunday afternoon.”
Service area
Serving Charlotte and surrounding areas.
We serve the south Charlotte wedge (SouthPark, Myers Park, Dilworth, Quail Hollow, Ballantyne, Pineville, and the Providence corridor), plus Steele Creek and, across the river, Belmont and Mount Holly. If you are close by, send your address or ZIP code and we will let you know what is realistic.
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Hedge and shrub trimming for Charlotte homes, pruned by plant and season: azaleas after bloom, crape myrtles in late winter, boxwoods and hollies shaped through the year.
Questions about this service
- What size trees should we start with?
- Six to seven feet is usually the sweet spot of cost and establishment. Oversized trees are tempting, but smaller trees establish faster and often catch up within a few years at a fraction of the price. We lay out both options so the trade-off is yours to make.
- Do you check utilities and property lines before planting?
- Yes. We call 811 before any planting that digs, and we set plants back from lines, fences, and drives based on their mature size, not their nursery size.
- What does watering look like the first year?
- Deep, slow soakings rather than daily sprinkles: typically once or twice a week through the first growing season, more in July and August. We leave you a simple schedule for exactly what we planted.
- Can you replace builder plantings that never thrived?
- All the time. Builder packages get planted fast and shallow in whatever soil the grading left behind. We fix the soil, pick plants suited to the exposure, and plant them properly, which is most of the battle.
Recurring care
The Springdale Standard.
A mow-only crew leaves the feeding, the aeration, and the fall overseeding to you. The Standard is the whole lawn cared for, all of it, on one flat monthly rate.
- Mowing, edging, trimming, and blowing on a set schedule
- Fertilization to keep the lawn thick and green
- Aeration and overseeding, timed right for Charlotte lawns
- One flat monthly bill that never gets lumpy
- The same trusted crew, with a direct line to Justin
Our promise: if a visit isn't up to standard, tell us and we come back and make it right, no charge. No contracts, cancel anytime.
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Serving south Charlotte (SouthPark, Myers Park, Dilworth, Quail Hollow, Ballantyne), Pineville, Steele Creek, Belmont, Mount Holly, and nearby areas