About WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC: Professional Landscape Care Backed by Expertise

Since 2016, WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC has served Northern Kentucky homeowners with a simple but uncommon commitment: every landscape service we provide is backed by genuine professional credentials, science-based practices, and honest recommendations that put your property’s long-term health first.

We’re not a generic lawn service that happens to do landscaping. We’re not a crew with equipment but no formal training. We’re a credentialed landscape professional who understands plant biology, soil science, and proper horticultural techniques—and applies that knowledge to every property we serve.

When you work with WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC, you’re working with an ISA Certified Arborist KY-0847A, Kentucky Master Gardener, and Licensed Pesticide Applicator who’s been serving this community for nearly a decade. Your landscape isn’t just another maintenance stop—it’s a living investment that deserves professional care.

Our Philosophy: Education, Expertise, and Honest Service

The landscape industry has a problem: anyone with a truck and some equipment can claim to “do landscaping” regardless of training, knowledge, or commitment to proper techniques. This creates a market flooded with cheap services that damage plants, waste homeowners’ money, and create problems that require expensive corrections down the road.

We operate differently.

We Believe Professional Credentials Matter

ISA Certified Arborist certification, Master Gardener training, and pesticide applicator licensing aren’t just credentials on a website—they represent hundreds of hours of formal education, rigorous examination, and ongoing continuing education requirements. These certifications demonstrate genuine expertise in plant science, soil health, pest management, and proper landscape care techniques.

When we prune your shrubs, we’re considering plant biology and flowering timing. When we recommend core aeration, we understand soil science and root development. When we design landscapes, we follow ANSI standards and account for mature plant size. This depth of knowledge creates better outcomes and protects your investment.

We Believe in Honest Assessment

Not every property needs extensive services. Not every plant problem requires expensive treatment. Sometimes the best recommendation is “keep doing what you’re doing” or “this issue will resolve on its own.”

Our free landscape evaluatio ns reflect this commitment to honesty. We provide genuine professional assessment whether you hire us or not, because informed homeowners make better decisions—and homeowners who value expertise become long-term clients who understand the difference between cheap services and professional care.

We Believe in Sustainable, Science-Based Practices

Integrated Pest Management means using cultural controls and targeted treatments only when necessary—not calendar-based spray schedules that waste money and harm beneficial organisms. Proper plant selection means choosing species suited to site conditions rather than fighting nature with constant intervention. Soil health focus means addressing root causes of landscape problems rather than endlessly treating symptoms.

These approaches require more knowledge and expertise than generic services, but they deliver better long-term results at lower overall cost while minimizing environmental impact.

We Believe Local Experience Matters

Northern Kentucky’s clay soils, Zone 6b climate, and specific pest pressures require experience gained from years working in this exact region. We don’t import generic advice from other areas and hope it works—we recommend practices proven effective through direct observation in our specific conditions.

When we select plants for your landscape design, they’re species we’ve watched perform successfully in Northern Kentucky for years. When we time seasonal services, we’re accounting for our actual weather patterns and soil temperature norms. Local expertise delivers results that generic knowledge cannot.

Our Services: Comprehensive Landscape Care

WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC provides a complete range of professional landscape services designed to maintain, enhance, and protect your property investment:

Seasonal Cleanup Services

Professional spring and fall cleanup services go far beyond basic leaf removal—they’re comprehensive property assessments that address seasonal needs, prevent problems, and prepare your landscape for optimal performance.

Spring Cleanup Services Include:

Complete landscape bed cleanup removing winter debris and dead plant material
Ornamental shrub pruning for plant health, flowering, and proper size
Landscape bed edging for clean definition and mulch retention
Pre-emergent weed control applications timed for maximum effectiveness
Fresh mulch installation for moisture conservation and finished appearance

Why Professional Spring Cleanup Matters:

As an ISA Certified Arborist and Master Gardener, spring cleanup is when I’m evaluating winter damage, identifying disease or insect issues early, assessing plant health coming out of dormancy, and making recommendations that prevent small problems from becoming expensive crises.

Proper pruning timing matters enormously—spring-blooming shrubs pruned too early sacrifice this year’s flowers; summer bloomers pruned too late miss the optimal window. Professional expertise ensures work is done at the right time, using correct techniques, for maximum plant health and appearance.

Pre-emergent weed control is particularly time-sensitive. Applied before soil temperatures trigger germination (typically March in our area), it prevents weed seeds from sprouting in the first place. Miss the window by a few weeks, and you spend the entire season fighting established weeds with less effective post-emergent treatments.

Early Booking Advantages:

We offer significant incentives for homeowners who plan ahead:

10% discount for approving quotes within 10 days of issuance
Additional 5% discount for choosing priority scheduling weeks
Combined savings of up to 15% for early commitment
New clients receive free year-round weed control (both March and September applications—a $190 value) with comprehensive spring service

Spring schedules fill quickly. Homeowners who book in late fall or winter secure preferred timing and maximum savings, while those waiting until March often face limited availability and full pricing.

Plant Health Care Programs

Your landscape represents significant investment—typically $15,000-$50,000 in combined value from mature trees, established plantings, and years of care. Comprehensive plant health care programs protect that investment through proactive monitoring, preventive treatments, and early intervention.

What Plant Health Care Includes:

Seasonal Monitoring: Regular property inspections detect early signs of disease, insect pressure, nutrient deficiency, or environmental stress while problems remain manageable and treatment costs stay reasonable.

Soil Health Management: Core aeration, appropriate fertilization, soil amendments, and pH adjustment maintain the foundation healthy plants require. Healthy soil grows healthy plants that naturally resist problems.

Integrated Pest Management: IPM approaches prioritize cultural controls, beneficial organisms, and targeted treatments only when necessary. As a Licensed Pesticide Applicator since 2010, when chemical controls are needed, they’re applied correctly, safely, and in minimal amounts for maximum effectiveness.

Disease and Insect Treatment: Professional diagnosis identifies specific problems accurately—wrong diagnosis leads to wrong treatment, wasting money while issues worsen. Proper identification ensures appropriate solutions.

Preventive Care: Pre-emergent weed control in landscape beds, dormant oil applications for overwintering insects, fungicide treatments timed for disease prevention rather than reaction—proactive care costs less and works better than constantly fighting established problems.

Why Prevention Beats Reaction:

Plant health care programs typically represent 1-3% of landscape value annually but prevent problems costing 10-50% of landscape value when replacements become necessary.

Real economics: A $15,000 landscape served by a $300-$500 annual PHC program maintains value and appearance for decades with minimal plant loss. The same landscape without ongoing care typically requires $1,500-$3,000 in replacements and crisis treatments every 3-5 years while declining in both appearance and value.

Over 15 years, professionally maintained landscapes cost less while looking better and increasing property value. Neglected landscapes cost more while deteriorating and requiring eventual renovation.

The Time Factor:

When you lose an established plant to preventable problems, you lose the years it took to grow. A 12-foot Kousa dogwood that dies from treatable anthracnose took 10-12 years to reach that size. Replace it with a 6-foot specimen, and you’ve lost a decade of growth—time you can never recover.

Plant health care protects your time investment as much as your financial investment.

Professional Pruning Services

Proper pruning is both art and science—requiring understanding of plant biology, growth patterns, flowering timing, and correct technique. Poor pruning damages plants, sacrifices flowering, creates disease entry points, and often costs more to correct than it would have cost to do properly initially.

Why Pruning Technique Matters:

As an ISA Certified Arborist, pruning recommendations follow established standards:

Correct timing based on bloom period and growth patterns
Proper cuts that promote healing and prevent decay
Strategic removal that enhances plant health and form
Species-specific techniques accounting for growth habits
Safety considerations for overhead hazards and structural issues

When we prune spring-blooming shrubs, it happens immediately after flowering ends—preserving next year’s buds while addressing size and form. Summer bloomers get pruned in late winter for maximum flower production. Evergreens receive attention at optimal times for vigorous regrowth.

Generic “trim everything in March” approaches sacrifice flowering, stress plants, and demonstrate lack of horticultural knowledge.

What Professional Pruning Delivers:

Enhanced flowering and fruiting through proper timing
Improved plant health by removing dead, diseased, or damaged wood
Better structure and form following natural growth patterns
Managed size without constant shearing battles
Extended plant life through proper care and maintenance
Early hazard identification preventing property damage or injury

Pruning is often incorporated into comprehensive spring cleanup services for efficient scheduling, though significant work may be quoted separately based on scope and timing requirements.

Core Lawn Aeration

Professional core aeration is one of the most impactful—yet most overlooked—services for landscape health. By relieving soil compaction and creating pathways for air, water, and nutrients to reach root zones, aeration benefits every living thing in your landscape, not just turf.

Why Soil Health Drives Everything:

Most landscape problems start underground. Compacted soil suffocates roots, prevents water infiltration, blocks nutrient movement, and creates perfect conditions for disease and stress.

Northern Kentucky’s clay-heavy soils are naturally prone to compaction even without traffic. Add foot traffic, mowing equipment, heavy rain, and years of settling, and compaction becomes severe enough to limit plant performance significantly.

Core aeration removes small soil plugs, creating thousands of channels that allow roots to breathe, water to penetrate, and nutrients to reach where plants need them. The difference in turf density, tree vigor, and shrub health is often dramatic within one growing season.

The Landscape Connection:

Tree and shrub roots extend far beyond drip lines—often 2-3 times canopy width—which means they’re growing directly beneath your turf. Compacted lawn soil stresses woody plants just as severely as it stresses grass.

When we aerate your lawn, we’re improving growing conditions for your entire landscape, not just creating prettier grass. Healthier soil supports healthier plants across the board, reducing problems and maintenance requirements throughout your property.

Optimal Timing:

Fall (late August through October) is ideal for cool-season grass aeration in our region. Moderate temperatures, adequate moisture, and active grass growth allow rapid recovery while maximizing establishment before winter.

Spring aeration works but offers shorter establishment periods before summer stress. Professional timing delivers better results.

Custom Landscape Design & Installation

Professional landscape design and installation is where expertise matters most—mistakes made during design and planting follow you for decades, while proper planning creates landscapes that improve with age rather than becoming maintenance nightmares.

Why Design Expertise Matters:

The #1 landscape mistake is ignoring mature plant size. That cute 3-foot shrub becomes 12 feet wide in 8 years. That “small” tree towers 40 feet high in 15 years. Improper spacing creates crowding, disease pressure, maintenance problems, and eventual need for removal and replacement—wasting both money and irreplaceable growth time.

As an ISA Certified Arborist and Master Gardener with nearly a decade observing plant performance in Northern Kentucky’s specific conditions, I know what plants become at maturity because I’ve watched thousands of them grow. This prevents expensive mistakes before they’re planted.

What Professional Design Includes:

Comprehensive Site Analysis: Evaluating soil conditions, drainage patterns, sun exposure, microclimate variations, and existing conditions that influence plant selection and placement.

Proper Plant Selection: Species chosen for site-specific conditions, mature size appropriate for location, seasonal interest throughout the year, maintenance requirements matching your lifestyle, and proven performance in Northern Kentucky’s Zone 6b climate.

Correct Spacing Calculations: Plants spaced for mature dimensions, not nursery container size—preventing crowding, disease, and maintenance problems that emerge 5-10 years after installation.

ANSI-Standard Installation: Following American National Standards Institute protocols for planting depth, root preparation, backfill composition, staking (when necessary), and mulching—giving plants the best possible start and preventing common installation failures.

Long-Term Planning: Designs that account for how landscapes evolve, mature, and interact with your property over decades rather than just immediate appearance.

Why Installation Quality Matters:

A tree planted 6 inches too deep may look fine for 5-7 years before decline symptoms appear—by then, correction requires expensive excavation or removal. Following ANSI standards from the start prevents this entirely preventable failure mode.

Proper root preparation for container-grown stock, correct burlap and wire basket handling for B&B plants, and appropriate soil amendments based on actual conditions rather than generic recipes—these installation details determine whether plants thrive for decades or struggle from day one.

Return on Investment:

Quality landscaping returns 100-200% of investment in increased home value according to the National Association of Realtors. A $10,000 landscape investment potentially adds $10,000-$20,000 to sale price while reducing time-on-market and creating positive first impressions that influence entire showings.

More importantly, properly designed landscapes require less maintenance, fewer replacements, and lower ongoing costs compared to poorly designed alternatives—saving money every year while looking better.

Free 30-Minute Landscape Evaluation

Our free landscape evaluation isn’t a sales pitch disguised as consultation—it’s genuine professional assessment designed to give you the information you need to make informed decisions about your landscape, whether you hire us, handle work yourself, or choose to do nothing at all.

What Makes This Different:

Most landscape companies offer “free estimates”—quick pricing for work you’ve already decided you want. That’s fine if you know exactly what your property needs.

But what if you’re not sure? What if you have questions about plant health, timing, priorities, or whether proposed work is even necessary? What if you want to understand options before committing?

That’s where genuine evaluation becomes invaluable.

What Your Evaluation Includes:

Your Concerns and Goals: We start by discussing what prompted your call—specific problems, changes you’re considering, questions about landscape performance, budget priorities, and how you use your outdoor space.

Comprehensive Property Assessment: Together we walk your property while I evaluate plant health, soil conditions, proper spacing and placement, maintenance issues, design opportunities, and structural concerns. Throughout the walkthrough, I’m answering your questions in real-time with specific recommendations based on your actual property.

Priority Discussion: After assessment, we discuss findings and recommendations—what needs immediate attention versus what can wait, realistic timelines, ballpark budgets, multiple options when available, and what you can handle yourself versus what benefits from professional expertise.

Written Quotes (If Requested): If you’d like formal pricing for services discussed, detailed quotes follow within 2 business days—no pressure, no obligation, just transparent information.

The Value Proposition:

Professional landscape consultation typically costs $150-$300 per hour. We offer 30 minutes at no charge because homeowners who understand their landscapes make better decisions—whether they hire us or not.

One prevented mistake (wrong plant selection, improper timing, unnecessary removal) easily justifies the value. Multiple prevented mistakes—which is typical—represent thousands in avoided costs.

No Obligation Means No Obligation:

Many evaluations result in “your landscape is fine, keep doing what you’re doing”—which isn’t exactly aggressive sales tactics. The information has value independent of whether you ever hire services.

Our Approach: Education, Prevention, and Long-Term Value

Every service we provide reflects our core philosophy: educated homeowners make better decisions, prevention costs less than reaction, and long-term value trumps short-term savings.

We Educate:

During every property visit—whether evaluation, cleanup, aeration, or any service—we explain what we’re doing, why it matters, and how it benefits your landscape long-term. You’re not just getting work done; you’re understanding your property better.

We Prevent:

Proactive care costs less and works better than reactive crisis management. Regular monitoring, proper timing, and preventive treatments address issues before they become expensive problems. This approach requires more expertise but delivers superior results.

We Build Value:

Every recommendation focuses on long-term landscape health and property value. We’re not interested in selling unnecessary services or creating dependency—we want landscapes that thrive with appropriate care and improve continuously over the years you own your property.

Who We Serve

WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC works primarily with homeowners who value expertise, understand the difference between cheap services and professional care, and view their landscape as a long-term investment deserving proper attention.

Our Ideal Clients:

Busy professionals and families who want expert care without weekend labor
Homeowners with physical limitations who need reliable professional help
Property owners preparing to sell who understand curb appeal impacts value
Landscape enthusiasts who appreciate professional expertise and proper technique
Anyone frustrated with generic services that don’t deliver lasting results

If you’re looking for the absolute cheapest option regardless of quality, we’re probably not the right fit. If you value credentials, proper techniques, honest recommendations, and long-term results, we should talk.

Service Area

WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC primarily serves Florence, Union, Walton, Richwood, and Burlington, Kentucky, with additional services available throughout Boone and Kenton Counties.

Our local focus ensures:

Deep familiarity with Northern Kentucky’s specific growing conditions
Experience with regional soil types, pest pressures, and climate patterns
Responsive service and convenient scheduling
Community accountability and reputation built on visible results
Personal investment in the area where we live and work

Getting Started

Whether you’re interested in comprehensive seasonal maintenance, professional landscape design, ongoing plant health care, or simply have questions about your property, the process starts the same way:

Schedule Your Free Landscape Evaluation

Book online or call/text (859) 444-0486 to arrange your complimentary 30-minute property assessment. No obligation, no pressure—just professional expertise applied to your landscape and your specific concerns.

During your evaluation, we’ll discuss your goals, assess your property’s current condition, answer your questions, and provide honest recommendations whether that leads to hiring services or simply better information for managing your landscape yourself.

From there, you decide what makes sense for your property, your budget, and your goals. We provide transparent quotes, explain options clearly, and let you make informed decisions without pressure or urgency tactics.

Many client relationships begin with evaluation, proceed to specific services addressing immediate needs, and evolve into ongoing care programs as homeowners experience the difference professional expertise makes. Others start and end with evaluation—and that’s perfectly fine. The information has value regardless.

Our Commitment to You

When you choose WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC, you’re choosing:

Professional Credentials: ISA Certified Arborist, Master Gardener, Licensed Pesticide Applicator—genuine expertise, not just claims.

Honest Assessment: Recommendations based on actual needs, not sales targets. Sometimes the best advice is “everything’s fine” or “you can handle this yourself.”

Proper Techniques: ANSI standards, IPM protocols, science-based practices—not shortcuts or outdated methods that waste money or damage plants.

Transparent Pricing: Clear quotes with detailed scope, no hidden charges, no surprise additions—you know exactly what you’re getting and what it costs.

Local Accountability: We live and work in this community. Reputation matters more than any individual sale. Quality results create long-term client relationships.

Continuing Education: Certifications require ongoing training. We stay current with evolving research, techniques, and best practices—bringing that knowledge to every property we serve.

This is the landscape care approach we’d want for our own properties—and it’s what we deliver to every client.

About Michael White: Credentials and Experience

ISA Certified Arborist KY-0847A (Since 2013)

International Society of Arboriculture certification represents comprehensive knowledge of tree and shrub biology, soil science, plant health diagnosis, proper pruning techniques, risk assessment, and installation standards. Certification requires rigorous examination and ongoing continuing education—demonstrating commitment to professional excellence.

Kentucky Master Gardener (Since 2011)

University of Kentucky Extension Master Gardener program requires 40+ hours intensive training in plant science, soil health, integrated pest management, and sustainable landscape practices. Master Gardeners serve as Extension’s connection to the community, providing research-based information rather than folklore or guesswork.

Licensed Kentucky Pesticide Applicator (Since 2010)

State licensing demonstrates knowledge of safe, legal, effective pesticide use, IPM principles, environmental protection, and proper application techniques. When treatments are necessary, licensed applicators ensure they’re applied correctly and safely.

Professional Experience

Nearly a decade serving Northern Kentucky homeowners with professional landscape services, plus over 15 years in professional horticulture. Experience working specifically in Zone 6b conditions with clay soils, regional pest pressures, and Northern Kentucky’s unique growing challenges.

Combined Expertise

These three credentials together create comprehensive knowledge rarely found in the landscape industry—someone who understands plant biology, soil science, proper techniques, and regional conditions from both formal education and years of hands-on experience.

This expertise informs every evaluation, every design, every pruning cut, every aeration pass, and every recommendation we provide.

Contact WhiteHouse Landscapes LLC

Ready to experience the difference professional landscape care makes?

Schedule Your Free Landscape Evaluation

Phone/Text: (859) 444-0486

Service Area: Primarily Florence, Union, Walton, Richwood, and Burlington, Kentucky, with services available throughout Boone and Kenton Counties

Licensed • Insured • Locally Owned and Operated

Professional landscape care backed by credentials, experience, and commitment to your property’s long-term success.