Landscaper · Warren County, Ohio (513) 224-7597
Landscaper · Warren County, Ohio

Beds, mulch and edges, cut sharp.

The work that makes a yard look taken care of — beds cleaned out and mulched, edges re-cut, shrubs and trees trimmed, and the whole place squared away in spring and again in the fall. Weekly mowing, seeding, sod, grading and snow when it comes. Owner-operated by Chris, across Warren County and out to Cincinnati and Dayton.

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Beds & Mulch
Edging
Mowing
Trimming
Clean-Ups
Owner-operated — you deal with Chris 8–5 for calls, by appointment after hours Residential & commercial
What We Do

The edge is where it shows

Anyone can cut grass. What makes a yard look taken care of is the line between the bed and the lawn, mulch sitting level, and shrubs trimmed to a shape instead of flattened with a hedge trimmer. That’s the work Chris gets asked for most, and it’s the work he starred on his own list.

Beds & MulchA maple standing in a sweeping black mulch bed planted with ornamental grasses and low shrubs, stepping stones set into the mulch, a patio with chairs behind it

Beds, Mulch & Edging

Beds cleaned out, the edge re-cut with a spade, and mulch laid level and pulled back off the stems. New plants where a bed needs filling, not just tidying.

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DetailA wide oval of fresh brown mulch cut around the trunk of a mature tree in a green lawn, with an iron bench set underneath it and hostas behind

Trimming & Clean-Ups

Spring and fall clean-ups, leaf collection, yearly trimming on shrubs, bushes and trees, plus the tree rings and edges that keep a mower away from the trunks.

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Ground WorkA newly built segmental block retaining wall holding the ground beneath a hot tub platform, with gravel backfill and a wheelbarrow in front of it

Grading, Sod & Removals

Grading a bank or a low spot, sod where seed won’t take, and tree removal and stump grinding when something has to come out before anything else can go in.

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Before & After

The same property, twice

Two jobs, shot at the start and again at the end of the same day. Same house, same corner, nothing swapped out — the timestamps on the photos are hours apart, not months.

BeforeA white ranch house almost hidden behind an overgrown mass of shrubs and small trees spreading across the front of the property and up to the driveway
AfterThe same house from the same spot with the overgrowth gone, open lawn in front of it and a loaded dump trailer standing on the driveway
A front taken backAll of it out and hauled off in about two hours. That trailer in the second photo is what came off the front of the house.
BeforeA bed beside a brick house entry stripped back to bare soil, with the garden ornaments lifted out and set to one side on the walk
AfterThe same entry bed filled with dark mulch, boulders set along the curve, new shrubs planted and the ornaments put back where they were
Entry bed, rebuiltStripped down to bare soil, re-shaped with stone along the curve, then mulched and planted — and everything that got lifted out went back where it was.

Chris takes his own job photos. He’ll tell you himself he’s still working on standing in the same spot every time — so these are the two pairs where he did.

The Calendar

What the year looks like

Everything below is on Chris’s own list. This is just the order an Ohio year puts it in — and the reason most of his customers end up on a standing schedule instead of calling around every season.

A freshly mulched foundation bed in dark mulch running along a brick house beside a concrete walk, planted with a clipped topiary and low shrubs, bright green lawn alongside Mar – May

Spring clean-up and mulch

Winter debris out, beds cleaned back, the edge re-cut, and fresh mulch down before anything leafs out and makes it twice the job. First cut once it’s actually growing.

  • Spring clean-up
  • Edging
  • Mulch installation
  • Plant installation
A wide open lawn mowed in broad alternating stripes running towards a ranch house and a treeline under a blue summer sky Apr – Oct

Mowing and trimming

Weekly mowing through the growing season, trimmed and blown down each visit. Shrubs, bushes and trees get their annual trim at the point in the year that suits the plant.

  • Weekly mowing
  • Annual trimming
  • Fertilization
An early-fall front lawn running down to a sidewalk, with a young tree standing in a freshly mulched oval bed and houses along the street behind Sep – Oct

The repair window

The short stretch when a thin or tired lawn is worth fixing rather than feeding: core aeration, over-seeding, and the fall rain doing most of the work. Sod where seed just isn’t going to take.

  • Aeration
  • Seeding & over-seeding
  • Sod installation
A large bed of fresh dark mulch spread beneath two mature trees with bare autumn branches, fallen leaves scattered across the grass around it Oct – Nov

Leaves, and putting it away

Leaves off before they mat down and smother the grass over winter, beds cut back, and the whole property tidied up so spring starts clean instead of starting behind.

  • Leaf collection
  • Fall clean-up
  • Property clean-up
A segmental block retaining wall part-way through construction on bare excavated ground, with gravel backfill and a tub platform set on top of it Dec – Feb

Snow, and the heavy jobs

Snow removal when it falls. The slow months are also where there’s room on the schedule for the work that takes a machine and a full day — grading, a tree down, a stump out.

  • Snow removal
  • Grading
  • Tree removal
  • Stump grinding
Recent Work

Recent work around Warren County

Chris’s own photos, taken on the job. Twenty-four of them here, out of three years’ worth. No stock photos, nothing borrowed.

Beds, mulch and edges

The work he starred on his own list — and the part of a yard people notice first without really knowing why.

A long bed along a brick house edged with block and filled with grey river rock, planted with a row of deep purple heuchera and clipped boxwood balls, a large hydrangea at the far end
River rock and heucheraBlock edge, rock instead of mulch, and the purple set in a run so the color reads from the street instead of bunching up in one spot.
A maple standing in a sweeping black mulch bed planted with ornamental grasses and low shrubs, stepping stones set into the mulch, a patio with chairs behind it
Around the mapleOne bed carried the whole way around the tree and out to the patio, so a mower never has to get near the trunk.
A wide oval of fresh brown mulch cut around the trunk of a mature tree in a green lawn, with an iron bench set underneath it and hostas behind
Tree ring, cut wideBig enough to put a bench under. Cut round with a spade, not scraped out with a mower.
A bed along the entry of a stone house planted with clipped boxwood domes, liriope and a Japanese maple, finished in brown mulch with a crisp edge against the lawn
Layered at the doorBoxwood kept to a shape instead of a hedge line, with the mulch edge holding its curve all the way past the door.
A fresh black mulch bed wrapping the corner of a siding house, planted with low shrubs beneath a tree and cut to a clean edge against the lawn
Around the cornerThe bed carried around the corner of the house in one line instead of stopping at it.
A foundation bed along a red brick house planted with hostas in white flower, freshly mulched dark brown with a clean edge against the grass
Hostas in bloomMulched in behind the flowers, edge re-cut against the walk.
A mulched bed against white siding planted with purple salvia in full bloom and perennials, the mulch cut to a curved edge against the lawn
Salvia in full bloomAt full height over fresh mulch, with the spade edge holding its curve the whole way down the lawn.

New beds and the front of the house

Where a bed gets built instead of just tidied — cut into open lawn, edged, filled and planted.

A long oval island bed newly edged with tan retaining-wall block and filled with fresh black mulch, set into an open lawn with evergreens behind
A bed where there wasn’t oneCut into open lawn, edged with block and filled level, ready to plant.
An island bed in a driveway turnaround edged with block and filled with river rock, planted with a purple-leaf shrub and gold-foliage shrubs
Island in the drivewayRock instead of mulch where cars pass close, so nothing washes out onto the concrete.
A weeping ornamental tree standing in a freshly mulched dark bed beside a white garage door, with a split-rail fence and open ground behind
Beside the garageThe bed shaped to the tree instead of squared off, mulched dark and edged clear of the driveway.
A brick two-story house with a white columned porch, fresh black mulch beds running along the porch foundation and around the front walk, green lawn in front
The whole frontBeds cleaned out and mulched along the porch and around the walk in one pass.
A brown mulch bed beside a flagstone walk at a stone house, planted with clipped boxwood domes and ornamental grass beneath a mature tree
Along the flagstoneThe bed edge run parallel to the stone, so the two lines follow each other instead of fighting.
A long foundation bed along a brick house, freshly mulched dark brown, planted with liriope, small shrubs and pink flowers, with a crisp edge against the concrete walk
Mulch along the frontEdge cut against the walk, the bed cleaned out and mulched, and the plants left room to fill in instead of buried.

Mowing and trimming

The weekly half of it — and the once-a-year trim that decides what a shrub looks like for the other fifty-one weeks.

A large lawn mowed in bold alternating stripes running away from the camera towards a fence line and outbuildings
StripesA mower going two directions. No paint, no product — that’s just the cut.
A wide open lawn mowed in stripes under a blue sky, with bare early-spring trees and a long ranch house to one side
First cuts of the yearEarly spring, trees not out yet, and the lawn already on a schedule.
A sloping front lawn mowed in stripes rising from the street curb to a brick two-story house, with two young ornamental trees on the slope
Up from the curbCut across the slope and edged along the curb.
A mowed lawn curving past a clipped hedge and a wooden gazebo beneath mature trees, a red-mulched bed edge following the line of the hedge
Around the gazeboThe hedge kept to its shape, with the bed edge following it the whole way around.
Boxwood clipped into rounded domes along a flagstone path at a stone house, with a Japanese maple behind and a clean lawn edge in front
Trimmed to a shapeEach one taken back to a dome instead of swept flat with a hedge trimmer.
A long run of trimmed evergreen hedge along the front of a brick house, cut level along the top and down the face, with bright mowed lawn in front
A hedge run, leveledCut along the top and the face in one line down the whole front of the house.

Ground work and stone

Grading, block and rock — the jobs that change the shape of a yard instead of just tidying it.

A newly built segmental block retaining wall holding the ground beneath a hot tub platform, with gravel backfill, excavated soil and a wheelbarrow in front of it
Wall going inBlock coursed up to hold the ground under the tub, before anything on top of it could be finished.
A broom-finished concrete deck curving around a covered swimming pool, bordered with white river rock inside a black aluminum fence, autumn trees behind
Pool surroundRock laid in the strip between the deck and the fence, so there’s nothing left in there to mow.
The same pool at dusk with string lights lit above the fence line, the covered water and the white river-rock border in the foreground under a deep blue sky
The same pool, at duskWhat the rock border and the deck line look like once the lights come on.
A curved segmental block retaining wall with cap stones holding a graded bank planted with a row of young shrubs under straw mulch, woodland behind
A bank held and plantedThe slope graded and faced with block on the curve, then planted and strawed down to hold the soil while it roots in.
A river-rock bed with large flagstone stepping stones running between a hot tub on a concrete pad and a black aluminum fence
River rock and flagstoneRock laid down the side of the house with flagstone set in as a path, so the strip beside the hot tub stops being mud.

Getting hold of Chris

Hours
8–5 for calls. After hours by appointment.
Where
Warren County, out to Cincinnati and Dayton

Residential and commercial both. If it’s a property that needs looking after, it’s worth a call.

Meet the Owner

Chris

Owner · Mac’s Landscaping · Warren County, Ohio

“Results that improve curb appeal and long-term property value.”

That’s the last line of how Chris describes the business himself, and it’s a more honest summary than most. He’s not selling a transformation. He’s selling a yard that looks like somebody’s on top of it, week after week, year after year.

Owner-operated means what it sounds like: you talk to Chris about the job, and Chris is on the job. Residential and commercial both, from a single bed renovation through to standing grounds work.

The one review on his listing is worth reading for what it doesn’t say. It doesn’t say he showed up once and did something spectacular. It says he has handled the same lawn and landscaping for three years running, and that when the family came to put the house on the market, the landscaping was ready. That’s the whole business in two sentences.

— ChrisOwner, Mac’s Landscaping · Warren County, Ohio · (513) 224-7597

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What a customer said

One review on the listing so far, reproduced in full and unedited. It’s the only third-party word on this page.

"Chris cares about his work and our yard reflects that. He's easy to work with and does a fantastic job. This is the third year he's handled our lawn and landscaping. On top of that, he made sure our landscaping was perfect when we listed our home."

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