Outdoor Services to Enhance Landscape Health in Littleton
The county’s first emerald ash borer case turned up in Littleton in 2023. Two years later it had reached Aurora. That is the pace of things here, and it is why timing matters more than effort. We have worked these blocks for 30 years.
Landscaping Design In Littleton
Water finds the low corner of every property. In Littleton that corner is often closer than you’d think, given how the land steps down toward the river. Landscaping services in Littleton, CO start by finding where it collects.
Before we design anything, we look at:
Where runoff pools after a heavy storm
Which corners stay wet and which bake by noon
Whether the existing turf is worth keeping
Bluegrass wants about 1.5 inches of water a week once the thermometer clears 85. On a damp lot that is too much. On a dry slope it is not enough. Lawn landscaping in Littleton, CO means zoning the yard, not blanketing it.
Through the year that looks like:
Feeding in the fall window CSU Extension recommends
Opening compacted ground before that feeding goes down
Clearing beds while the soil is still workable
Our landscaping design services put all of that on one calendar.
Comprehensive Outdoor Services
A house from 1890 and a house from 2015 sit two miles apart in this city. They do not want the same yard, and they do not have the same ground under them. Every service below gets adjusted for which one you own.
Fencing
Gardening
Irrigation
Landscaping
Tree Care
Why Littleton Homeowners Choose Our Outdoor Team
Anyone can mow a lawn. Knowing which half of your yard is drowning and which half is starving takes time in the neighborhood.
BBB Accredited: Twenty-one years on record with the Better Business Bureau.
Drainage First: We locate the low corner before recommending a single plant.
Plants That Last: Species picked for a wet spring and a bone-dry August.
Elite Landscaping Services in Littleton, Colorado: Thirty years of it, under one owner.
OUR SIMPLE OUTDOOR SERVICE PROCESS
Trusted Local Garden Service Areas
Everything we cover falls within a short drive of here. That is deliberate, because a crew that knows the ground works faster on it.
Centennial and Highlands Ranch sit just east and south of here. Denver and Aurora round out the rest. Douglas County ground drains nothing like Arapahoe County ground, and we plan accordingly.
Unsure whether you fall inside that range? The full service area map has it laid out.
Downtown lots are narrow and deep. Newer subdivisions out west are wide and open. A layout that suits one looks wrong on the other, so we do not reuse plans.
Each plan gets shaped by:
The proportions of the lot you actually have
Plants that handle both the damp side and the dry side
Stone and paving that survive freeze and thaw
Denver Water put the word xeriscape into use in 1981, from the Greek xeros, meaning dry. Seven principles sit underneath it. We specialize in custom landscaping services in Littleton drawn from that framework, and Ho's Beautiful Gardens builds them to survive a full Colorado year.
About Ho's Beautiful Gardens
Tien Ho has owned and run this company for three decades. The Better Business Bureau has carried the accreditation since 2005. Five services, one crew, and the same people showing up each time.
Contact Our Outdoor Specialists
Describe what your Littleton yard is doing and we’ll come see it. Call (303) 601-4564, or email us if that’s easier. The complete service list covers everything we handle.
Tree Removal Company In Littleton
Old cottonwoods and elms line a lot of this city. They shade a yard beautifully and drop limbs without warning. A spring snow that lands wet on full leaves is usually what does it.
Ash trees carry a separate problem. The borer landed here first in 2023 and kills within two to four years. D-shaped holes in the bark and a crown going bare at the top are the tells.
As a tree removal company we handle:
Pruning that respects how an old tree is built
Spotting rot at the collar before a limb lets go
Taking the tree down and grinding the stump out
Fencing Company In Littleton
A leaning fence is almost never a fence problem. It is a hole problem, and it shows up a year or two after the work was done.
Front Range code puts the frost line at 36 inches. Water swells roughly nine percent as it freezes, and that swelling lifts anything sitting above it. Our fencing company crews dig past that depth, which is why our lines stay straight.
On every job you get:
A style that suits the age of the house
Holes dug past the frost line, no shortcuts
Paperwork if your lot or lender needs it
Irrigation Repair Services In Littleton
Most spring service calls start with a pipe that froze in November. Late September through mid-October is the window to clear the lines. CSU Extension is blunt about it: use compressed air, because drain valves leave water sitting in the low spots.
Our irrigation repair services keep a system honest through the whole season:
Controllers that read the soil rather than the calendar
Separate timing for the damp side and the dry side
Lines cleared with air before the freeze arrives
Residential Gardening Services In Littleton
Beds lose water faster than turf does, and they lose it unevenly. Two inches of mulch buys you days between waterings. Spacing plants too tightly undoes that within a season.
Our residential gardening services, covering gardening services in Littleton, CO, handle:
Mulch and bed work matched to how wet that corner runs
Planting inside the local window, not ahead of it
Weeding often enough that it never becomes a project