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Designing, Building, and Nurturing Your Landscape.
Elevate Your Property with a Buds & Blades Landscape Solution! As a leading landscape services provider, we design and maintain beautiful landscapes year-round for commercial and residential customers. From breathtaking designs to meticulous care, we bring your vision to life, creating outdoor spaces that make a lasting impression. Schedule your consultation today and let's build something extraordinary!
Since 2005, we have prided ourselves on delivering high-quality lawn and landscape service to homeowners and business owners just like you. You deserve proactive and prompt attention from professionals who are attuned to your needs. We provide ongoing training and development to every member of our crew because we want to provide the very best service to you..
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Who We Are
Local family owned landscape maintenance company
Rick and Nicole Longnecker founded Buds & Blades Landscape Company in July 2005 with a vision to build a reliable maintenance business rooted in family values and community investment. Since our founding in the South Puget Sound region, we have established strong roots serving clients from Lacey to Chehalis.
We specialize in commercial properties, HOAs, and high-end residential landscapes. This focused expertise allows us to provide superior service and meticulous care. We pride ourselves on delivering prompt, informed, and detailed service with a friendly approach. We are honored that many of our original clients continue to trust us with their properties today.
As we grow, we remain committed to providing a challenging and safe environment where our employees can train and advance their careers. We live and work in the South Puget Sound and are dedicated to seeing our local community flourish.
As Easy As One, Two, Three!
Schedule A Walkthrough.
Whether by phone or email, we can schedule a visit at your home or business to learn more about your property and what you need in a landscape maintenance service. We will keep you well informed and provide a single point of contact, ensuring your needs are understood from cost to timing.
2. Receive A Customized Proposal.
We will provide you with a no-obligation proposal tailored to your property when the assessment is complete. We can collaborate with you, your team, or a board of directors to work within your internal processes. You will have a dedicated representative available to walk you through the entire process.
3. We Will Take Care Of The Rest.
Once Buds and Blades takes over your landscape maintenance you can get back to what you do best - enjoying your life and managing your business! We will take care of your landscape as if it were our own. We know that getting started with us will be the beginning of a great long-term relationship.
Our Professional Focus
DESIGN & SERVICES
Expert landscaping at its best! We provide design and construction, transforming outdoor spaces into stunning living works of art. Our dedicated team delivers meticulous, customized results to elevate your property's value. Partner with us to bring your dream landscape to life with unparalleled attention to detail.
Key Highlights:
Customized Design & Build: Specialized in creating tailored outdoor living, and lush landscapes.
Expert Team: Dedicated professionals focusing on extraordinary, detailed execution.
Enhanced Property Value: High-quality, durable, and aesthetic installations that boost, curb appeal and property value.
Comprehensive Services: From stunning patios and outdoor kitchens to lighting and irrigation, we handle all facets of landscape transformation.
LAWNCARE, MAINTENANCE, & CLEANUP
We provide comprehensive lawn care, including mowing, fertilization, overseeding, sodding, and seasonal cleanup. Using only safe, reliable products, we ensure your yard remains a stunning, healthy haven all year long.
Key Highlights:
Lawncare: Where precision meets passion. We deliver healthy, pristine lawns you can rely on.
Maintenance: Including full services of leaf removal overseeding, sodding, pest treatment, fertilizing, and debris removal.
Cleanup: Leaving spaces immaculate, with meticulous attention to detail on lawn areas, flower beds, and walkways. Responsible, often sustainable, disposal of waste. Prioritizing the removal of dangerous, hanging, or unstable debris.
LAWNCARE, MAINTENANCE, & CLEANUP
We provide expert, customized drainage and installation services for residential, commercial, and municipal properties in St. Louis. Protect your property from water damage, rot, and fungi with tailored, sustainable solutions.
Key Highlights:
Tailored Drainage & Installation: Specialized design and implementation for yard drainage.
Sustainable Solutions: Expertise in soil grading, French drains, and rain gardens.
Range of Services: Serving residential, commercial, and municipal customers.
Property Protection: Extensive measures to prevent damage from water, rot, and fungi.
LANDSCAPE LIGHTING DESIGNS & INSTALLATION
Give your business or home nighttime curb appeal and security. customized architectural, landscape, and outdoor living lighting designs. We work closely with you to highlight your unique needs.
Key Highlights:
Nighttime Curb Appeal: Featuring unique architecture, mature trees, or stonework—can disappear. Lighting paints your landscape turning it into a dramatic, welcoming, and luxurious, yet safe, oasis, rather than leaving it as a dark silhouette in the neighborhood.
Customized Design: This isn't just about sticking a few lights in the ground it is a tailored system that highlights dramatic architectural elements accentuating your outdoor living spaces for evening enjoyment.
Security & Function: A properly lit property is a secure property. By strategically illuminating dark entryways, side yards, and pathways, we enhance your properties safety.
IRRIGATION SYSTEM INSTALLATION & MAINTENANCE
As a customer centric landscaping company, we take pride in offering comprehensive irrigation services to our commercial and residential customers.
Key Highlights:
Personalized: Bespoke, custom-designed, tailored, attentive, attentive to detail, client-focused, site-specific.
Comprehensive Irrigation Services: Installation, design, seasonal startup/shutdown, repair, retrofitting, efficiency audits, smart technology (Wi-Fi controllers, drip irrigation).
Commercial and Residential: Versatile, scalable, expert in both large-scale site management and individual home aesthetics.
Proud to offer: Expert, reliable, professional, high-quality, trusted.
SEASONAL PREPREATION & ICE CONTROL
The key to effective winter operations is shifting from a reactive (waiting for snow and ice to melt) to a proactive (preventing buildup) mindset. A comprehensive strategy covers preparation, material sourcing, and efficient ice control.
Key Highlights:
Seasonal Preparation (Fall/Pre-Season): Before the first frost, ensure the property is prepared for cold, wind, and heavy moisture.
Grounds Winterization: Check drainage to prevent overflowing. Turn off drain faucets and irrigation systems. Blow out irrigation systems. Prune dead branches that could break under ice weight and fall on structures.
Anti-icing Strategy: Lay down granular salt with care to reduce bounce-and-scatter.
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