Lawn care in Portland, built around Portland's ground.

Portland proper covers more ground and more variation than any other area we serve. Close-in eastside neighborhoods like Sellwood-Moreland, Mt. Tabor, and Laurelhurst tend to have older lawns under a heavy, mature tree canopy — big-leaf maples and oaks that mean serious fall leaf drop and shade-driven moss pressure most of the year. Further north, neighborhoods like Alberta Arts and St. Johns mix older bungalow lots with newer infill, often with thinner topsoil where a lawn was laid over disturbed ground.

Soil across most of the city runs clay-heavy, which means standing water after a hard rain and compaction over a few seasons of foot traffic — the two conditions that invite moss and buttercup. Fall core aeration does the most work of any single service for a typical Portland lot, and mowing height matters more under heavy shade, where grass needs every bit of leaf surface it can get to photosynthesize.