Programs · Scapes ICU™
Stabilize.
Restore. Protect.
A recovery-focused methodology for landscapes after cold, drought, or seasonal shock — built to save what can be saved and replace only what cannot.
The Recovery
Stress, not damage.
When a landscape is hit — a freeze, a drought, a hurricane — the visible damage is the smallest part of the problem. The soil is compromised. The root systems are stressed. The hydrology is off.
Most contractors see a hurt landscape and start cutting. That is how what you paid for becomes waste. We assess first, stabilize second, and replace last — because plant life is a living asset, and a brown plant is not a dead one. With precise, timely intervention, a significant proportion achieves full recovery.
What that looks like in practice is unglamorous and specific. We read the property before we touch it — scratch tests on the wood, soil pulled and scored, drainage watched under a hose. Then the triage: cut back only to living tissue, feed at the root zone where the plant can actually use it, correct the water, and hold the standard maintenance schedule until the ground has recovered enough to carry it. Nothing comes out until it has been given a season to answer.
A brown landscape is a patient, not a demolition.
The photographs on this page are the same bed, the same corner of the same property, across one recovery. Nothing in them was replaced. That is the entire argument for the program: the cheapest landscape you will ever buy is the one already in your ground.
Begin an ICU Assessment
If your landscape took a hit, do not cut yet.
After a freeze, drought, or storm, the first action should be a horticultural assessment — not a chainsaw. We come out, evaluate, document, and tell you exactly what can be saved.