Landscaping Services in De Forest, WI

Why De Forest Homeowners Choose BZ Landscapes

De Forest is a river town, and that changes the work. The Yahara runs right through it with channelized headwaters and a long-documented sediment problem, and the village keeps its own list of streets that flood. Anyone who has lived here a while remembers March of 2019, when water ended up in dozens of basements. Drainage is not an upsell in De Forest, it is usually the actual job.

What makes it tricky is that the ground is not consistent. Down near the river and Token Creek the soils are Houghton and Otter organics, very poorly drained, with the water table sitting within a foot of the surface from September through June. Up on the higher ground it is well-drained silt loam. A patio base that performs fine on an upland lot will sink on low ground half a mile away, so we look at where a property actually sits before quoting a base. More than half the homes here were built between 1970 and 1999, which means a lot of regrading around settled foundations, rerouting downspouts and sump discharge, and putting in swales and dry river beds that give water somewhere to go. Same crew and same standards as our Landscaping Services in Madison, WI, with more attention to what is under the surface.