Shrub & Hedge Trimming in Dallas-Fort Worth
Sheared boxwoods go hollow in the middle. Thinning lets light and air reach the interior, which is what keeps a hedge dense for years.
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Hollow in the middle, or swallowing the windows?
Most shrubs in DFW get sheared into boxes twice a year and slowly hollow out from the inside. The outside stays green while the interior loses its leaves, and by the time anyone cuts into it there is nothing left to grow back from.
- Shrub and hedge shaping
- Interior thinning for light and airflow
- Hard pruning and full bed resets
- Cane pruning for nandina and multi-stem shrubs
- Formal hedge maintenance
- Deadwood and sucker removal
- Cleanup and haul-off
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Installation
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What's included in our shrub & hedge trimming service
The answers homeowners ask us most, including what it costs.
What does shrub trimming cost?
$75 to $250 per visit for a typical front bed, priced by plant count and how overgrown things are. A full bed reset with hard pruning runs $300 to $900 because it is a much bigger cut and a lot more debris.
| Work | Typical cost |
|---|---|
| Routine bed trim, 6 to 12 shrubs | $75 to $175 |
| Large or heavily overgrown bed | $175 to $250 |
| Formal hedge, per linear foot | $3 to $8 |
| Full bed reset, hard pruning | $300 to $900 |
| Add-on to an existing mowing route | from $50 |
Why do sheared hedges go hollow?
Because shearing only ever cuts the outside.
Every shear pass leaves a denser shell of growth at the surface. That shell shades the interior. The interior loses its leaves, then loses the small twigs that would have produced them, and eventually you have a green skin over bare wood. Cut into it and you expose the hollow, and it does not fill back in quickly because there is nothing left to push from.
Thinning is the fix. You reach inside and take whole branches back to a junction, which opens gaps for light and keeps interior growth alive. The plant stays dense all the way through and it can be cut back later without exposing sticks.
When should shrubs be trimmed in North Texas?
Timing decides whether you keep next season's flowers.
- Late winter, February, for most evergreens and summer bloomers. Dormant, structure visible, and it pushes clean growth in spring.
- Right after flowering for spring bloomers: azalea, forsythia, quince, spirea. They set next year's buds on old wood over the summer, so a winter cut removes the flowers before they happen.
- Light shaping any time through the growing season.
- Not in fall. Late growth does not harden off before the first freeze.
What about boxwood, holly, and nandina?
These three cover most DFW front beds.
Boxwood responds well to thinning and badly to hard shearing. It is also the plant most often affected by boxwood blight in North Texas, and airflow through the interior is part of keeping it clean.
Holly takes a hard cut better than most and will regenerate from old wood, which makes it the easiest of the three to reset when it has outgrown a window.
Nandina should be cane-pruned, not sheared. Cut a third of the canes to the ground each year at staggered heights and it stays full from top to bottom. Sheared flat, it goes leggy and bare at the base.
Where we work
We trim across Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Allen, and Flower Mound, most often as an add-on for properties on our lawn care routes.
Figures are typical Dallas-Fort Worth ranges for planning, not a quote. Your exact investment depends on site conditions, materials, and the scope of your project.
Shrub & Hedge Trimming is usually part of a bigger plan
Most of the time this work goes in alongside a wider project, and it turns out better and costs less when the whole property is designed together rather than added a piece at a time.
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Tell us about your property and we will give you honest direction and a fixed price, whether or not you hire us.