Caring for Exceptional Properties
Complete Property Maintenance for Exceptional Homes
Signature Care Property Maintenance is C&P’s complete property stewardship program, created for homeowners who expect their outdoor environment to look exceptional throughout the year.
Landscape Architecture • Horticultural Care • Property Systems • Outdoor Living Expertise
One team managing landscape care, plant health, irrigation, lighting, pool areas, outdoor rooms, seasonal refinements, and the details that keep the whole property ready to enjoy.
Property Stewardship
Not just landscape maintenance.
Your landscape is an investment in how your property looks, feels, and functions every day.
The Signature Care Program was developed for homeowners who expect their outdoor environment to look exceptional throughout the year. Unlike traditional lawn services, our team includes landscape architects and horticultural specialists who understand how landscapes are designed and how to preserve their beauty over time.
Our goal is simple: to care for your property with the same level of detail used to create it.
One Team Managing Everything
Complete care for the whole property.
Signature Care is built around what your outdoor environment actually requires and coordinated through one trusted relationship.
Landscape Care
The foundation of a beautiful property: weekly mowing, trimming, and mechanical edging; lawn debris removal and cleanup of paved areas; spring bed preparation and mulching; bi-weekly hand weeding; seasonal pruning; professional leaf management; perennial and ornamental grass cutbacks; and winter maintenance visits.
Turf Care
A science-based program built around soil testing and a customized nutrient plan, pre-emergent weed prevention, broadleaf weed control treatments, summer stress recovery applications, grub prevention treatments, and fall core aeration and overseeding to keep turf resilient through every season.
Plant Health Care
Ongoing seasonal monitoring for insects and disease, targeted pest and fungal treatments, nutrient supplementation for trees and shrubs, deep root systemic protection treatments, and winter protection for evergreen plantings, so problems are caught and treated before they threaten the landscape.
Irrigation, Drainage & Lighting
Oversight of the systems that support the property, including irrigation performance, drainage awareness, erosion concerns, and landscape-lighting maintenance.
Pool & Outdoor Living Care
Coordinated care for pool areas, patios, water features, outdoor rooms, furniture, and seasonal openings and closings, based on how the property is actually lived in.
Seasonal Enhancements
Seasonal color, planting renovations, lighting upgrades, drainage corrections, irrigation improvements, and thoughtful refinements as the property's needs evolve.
Complete Property Services
The outdoor environment is one connected system.
By managing all aspects of the property, Signature Care provides a consistent level of care across the landscape, systems, and outdoor living spaces.
- Irrigation system management and seasonal servicing
- Landscape lighting maintenance and adjustments
- Mosquito, flea, and tick control programs
- Deer deterrent treatments
- Exterior pest protection
- Seasonal color installations
- Water feature maintenance
- Artificial turf grooming
- Gutter cleaning and window washing
- Outdoor living seasonal opening and closing
- Pool & Spa Maintenance
What a Trained Eye Sees
The details that feel off usually have a reason.
Signature Care looks for the small signals that ordinary maintenance can miss.
Protecting Mature Trees
Improper mulching, crowded root zones, planting-depth issues, insects, disease, and seasonal stress can create slow damage long before a tree visibly declines.
Pruning with Purpose
Trees and shrubs are cared for according to species, season, structure, flowering cycle, and role in the original design, not simply sheared into shape.
Understanding Water
Irrigation imbalances, soggy beds, erosion, downspouts, soil conditions, and water moving across slopes or hardscape all affect durability.
Caring for Outdoor Living
Planting, turf, pools, patios, lighting, water features, furniture, and outdoor rooms are considered together because that is how the homeowner experiences the property.
A Property That Is Ready to Be Enjoyed
The value is not measured only by the tasks completed.
It is found in the confidence of knowing that the property is being watched over by people who understand how it was designed, how it functions, and how it should mature.
- One trusted relationship overseeing the complete outdoor environment
- Proactive recommendations before small concerns become costly problems
- Fewer vendors and less day-to-day coordination for the homeowner
- Care that protects the design investment and long-term property value
- An outdoor environment that feels refined, welcoming, and ready to enjoy
The Signature Care Property Walk
Signature Care begins with observation.
Before recommending a program, we take the time to understand how the property is meant to function, how it is currently being cared for, and what it needs now and over time.
01
Walk the Property
Review the landscape, trees, turf, irrigation, drainage, lighting, pool areas, and outdoor living spaces.
02
Develop the Care Plan
Recommend a customized annual program based on the property's needs, priorities, systems, and seasonal rhythm.
03
Care, Observe & Communicate
Perform the work, monitor changing conditions, and keep the homeowner informed with proactive recommendations.
04
Protect & Improve
Address concerns early and recommend thoughtful enhancements when they will meaningfully improve the property.
Created with the Same Judgment We Use to Design and Build
C&P sees the property as a connected environment.
Our licensed landscape architects understand design intent. Our horticultural professionals understand plant health. Our construction and service teams understand drainage, masonry, pools, lighting, irrigation, and outdoor living systems.
For the homeowner, the result is simpler and more complete: one relationship, one standard of care, and a property that is protected season after season.
Licensed Landscape Architects
Award-Winning Design
Integrated Design-Build-Care Expertise
Northern Virginia, Washington, DC & Select Maryland Communities
Trusted to Care for the Places That Matter Most
Real property-care experience, in homeowners' words.
These reviews speak directly to plant health, communication, detail, and the convenience of having a capable team caring for the whole property.
“They offer a broad selection of services that transformed the health of my lawn and shrubs, as well as improved the aesthetic beauty of my entire property, in just one growing season. Their Operations Manager, Joe Ryder, is quick to respond to any question I have and keeps me informed of when special services will be performed on my property.”
Janet F. | Haymarket Area
“Our yard has never looked better. They quickly identified issues with our boxwoods and treated them effectively, recommended thoughtful changes to our layout, and even treated a grass fungus we had not been able to get rid of this year.”
Kimberly Kenific | Homeowner
Designed for Exceptional Properties - and the People Who Enjoy Them
Signature Care is for homeowners who value continuity and professional judgment.
It is especially well suited to mature landscapes, estate homes, pool and outdoor living environments, and properties with irrigation, lighting, terraces, gardens, drainage complexity, or significant planting structure.
Whether C&P designed and built the property or is being invited to care for it for the first time, our work begins by understanding what is already there, how the property is used, and what thoughtful care should accomplish.
- Exceptional, mature, or complex residential landscapes
- Pool, spa, patio, terrace, and outdoor-room environments
- Properties with irrigation, lighting, drainage, or water features
- Homeowners who want fewer vendors and stronger continuity
- Properties that deserve care beyond ordinary mowing
Signature Care FAQs
Questions homeowners often ask before the property walk.
No. Signature Care is available for qualifying properties whether or not C&P created the original landscape or outdoor living environment. Every relationship begins with a property walk and a clear understanding of the existing conditions.
Detailed lawn care may be part of the program, but Signature Care is designed for the complete outdoor environment. Depending on the property, the program may include landscape care, horticultural pruning, plant and turf health, irrigation, lighting, pool and patio care, water features, seasonal services, and ongoing property improvements.
No. Each annual care plan is customized around the property's landscape, systems, priorities, and seasonal needs.
A C&P professional walks the landscape, trees, turf, beds, irrigation, drainage, lighting, pool areas, and outdoor living spaces with you. We discuss how the property is used, identify concerns and opportunities, and determine whether Signature Care is the right fit.
C&P serves qualifying properties throughout Northern Virginia, Washington, DC, and select communities in Maryland. Contact our team to confirm availability for your property.
Begin with a Walk Through the Property
Signature Care begins with a conversation and a careful walk through the landscape.
From the gardens and pool areas to the outdoor living spaces and property systems, C&P develops a stewardship plan around what your property needs now and what it can become over time.