Herndon's top-rated lawn service — 5.0★ on Google with 47 reviews. Green Leaves provides lawn care, lawn maintenance, mowing, edging, trimming, landscaping services, sod installation, and leaf removal throughout Herndon, VA — including Floris, Franklin Farm, Fox Mill, Dranesville, and every neighborhood in between.
Green Leaves Lawn Services LLC is a fully licensed and insured lawn care and landscaping company serving Herndon and the surrounding Fairfax County area. We work in neighborhoods like Worldgate, Hunters Mill, McNair Farms, and Franklin Farm, delivering consistent, high-quality results every single visit.
We understand Herndon's local soil conditions, seasonal weather patterns, and HOA requirements. Whether you need weekly mowing and edging, a fresh mulch installation, or a full landscape renovation, our experienced crew handles it all.
Every service comes with our satisfaction guarantee — if you're not happy, we come back and make it right, free of charge. Most Herndon clients are on our schedule within 48 hours of their estimate.
Looking for a reliable lawn mowing service in Herndon? Green Leaves provides weekly and bi-weekly mowing, edging, and trimming for residential properties across Herndon, VA. Our crews show up on schedule, every time — no excuses. Whether you need residential grounds maintenance in Herndon or a one-time clean-up before a showing, we've got you covered.
Need professional landscaping in Herndon? Green Leaves offers full residential landscaping services — from bed design and plant installation to garden maintenance and landscape cleanup. We specialize in landscaping for Herndon's clay-heavy soil and HOA-governed communities. We also serve the Floris VA, Franklin Farm VA, and Dranesville VA neighborhoods for all landscaping needs.
Bare patches, thin turf, or a lawn that just won't grow? Green Leaves handles sod installation in Herndon, VA, as well as lawn seeding, overseeding, and full lawn renovation. Whether you need fresh sod laid for a new build or want to renovate an existing lawn, our team assesses your soil, prepares the bed, and installs quality sod that takes root fast.
Fall leaf removal in Herndon is no small job — the area's mature oak and maple trees can bury a yard in days. Green Leaves provides professional fall leaf cleanup service in Herndon, VA, removing leaves from lawns, beds, and driveways. We also handle spring cleanup, shrub trimming service in Herndon, and full seasonal yard clean-up services. Book early — fall slots fill up fast.
Green Leaves provides lawn care services throughout Herndon and the surrounding communities:
Yes — Green Leaves offers full lawn care services in Herndon, VA, including weekly mowing, edging, trimming, mulching, landscaping and seasonal cleanups. We're a 5.0-star rated, locally owned company serving Floris, Franklin Farm, Fox Mill, Dranesville and every Herndon neighborhood.
Pricing depends on lot size, lawn condition and service frequency. We provide a free, no-obligation quote within 24 hours so you know the exact price before we start — no surprises.
Our Herndon lawn maintenance includes mowing, edging, trimming, mulching, aeration, overseeding, sod installation, leaf removal and seasonal clean-ups — everything your yard needs, year-round.
Yes — beyond mowing, we provide full landscaping services in Herndon: bed design, plant installation, mulching, hardscaping and garden maintenance, tailored to Herndon's clay soil and HOA requirements.
Most new Herndon clients are on our schedule within 48 hours of their free estimate. During peak spring and fall seasons, we recommend booking early.
Yes, Green Leaves Lawn Services LLC is fully licensed and insured in Virginia, so your property and our crew are always protected on every visit.
We serve all of Herndon, including Floris, Franklin Farm, Fox Mill, Dranesville, McNair Farms, Worldgate, Hunters Mill and Chestnut Glen.
No. We offer flexible weekly, bi-weekly or one-time service in Herndon — no long-term contract required. 98% of our clients stay because they want to, not because they have to.
The right timing matters more than the product. Here's the schedule we actually follow across Herndon — based on our zone 7 climate, clay soil, and cool-season lawns.
Most NOVA lawns are cool-season tall fescue, and fescue does almost all of its root-building in fall. The two most valuable feedings are early September and again in late October to early November. A single light feeding in April is fine, but skip heavy nitrogen in summer — it stresses fescue and feeds crabgrass instead of your grass.
Late August through mid-October is the prime window. The soil is still warm enough for fast germination, the nights are cooling, and there's far less weed competition than in spring. Aim to get seed down by mid-September for the strongest fill-in before winter. Spring seeding (March–April) is a distant second and usually gets crowded out by crabgrass.
The main mulch application is mid-to-late spring — April into May — once the soil has warmed and early weeds are cleared. Refresh in fall if beds look thin. Keep mulch 2–3 inches deep and pull it a few inches back from trunks and stems; “mulch volcanoes” piled against bark trap moisture and cause rot.
Wait until after the average last frost — around April 15–20 — before putting out warm-season annuals like petunias, marigolds, and impatiens. Cool-season color such as pansies and violas can go out in late March or again in fall. Perennials, trees, and shrubs establish best planted in fall (September–October) or early spring, and spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils go in the ground in October–November.
Core-aerate cool-season lawns in the fall — September into October — ideally right before overseeding so the seed drops into the holes. Fall aeration relieves the summer compaction that NOVA's heavy clay builds up and sets up thick spring growth. Spring aeration is possible but can open the door to summer weeds.