Remove overgrown, dead, or unwanted bushes and shrubs with professional removal services. Complete extraction, stump grinding, and cleanup. Serving Columbia, Ellicott City, and Howard County since 1986.
Fall through early spring (October–March) is optimal—ground is accessible, landscaping damage is minimal, and you can replant in spring. However, we remove bushes year-round when properties need immediate improvement.
Transform your landscape with professional bush removal
Call 410-992-8680Yews, junipers planted 30+ years ago have grown massive—blocking windows, hiding house numbers, overwhelming homes.
Boxwood blight, winter injury, drought stress, or age kills shrubs. Dead bushes are eyesores that need prompt removal.
Plants that grew too large, require too much maintenance, or don't fit the landscape style. Starting over is the solution.
Oversized shrubs block natural light entering homes and obstruct views of yards and neighborhoods.
Heavily planted foundation beds from past decades look dated. Bush removal modernizes properties for contemporary taste.
Removing overgrown bushes is one of the best curb appeal investments before listing—homes show dramatically better.
Evaluate size, species, location, root systems, proximity to structures and utilities. Discuss your goals—replanting, expanding lawn, or leaving beds empty. Detailed written estimate provided.
Call Miss Utility to mark underground utilities before any digging. Identify irrigation lines and lighting cables. Place protective materials over lawn areas where equipment will travel.
Cut down bush carefully near structures and plants you want preserved. Dig out root balls using shovels, mini excavators, or specialized equipment. Complete root removal prevents regrowth.
Grind stumps 6–8 inches below grade using commercial stump grinders. Removes visible stumps and allows lawn or new plantings over the area. Critical for sites where you want lawn or beds.
Backfill holes with topsoil, grade areas smooth, restore lawn edges and bed lines. All brush, wood, roots, and stumps hauled away. Site left clean and ready for next steps.
Extremely common in older foundation plantings. Dense, extensive root systems require proper equipment. Removing massive yews instantly reveals hidden architecture.
Pfitzer and Sea Green varieties grow 10-15 feet across. Popular in 1970s–80s but now overwhelm properties. Deep taproots require careful excavation.
Boxwood blight has killed many plantings in the area. Complete removal including roots and contaminated soil when necessary.
Winter browning, bagworm damage, or root disease kills privacy hedges. Plants can reach 15–20 feet tall. Entire hedge lines removed efficiently.
Maples, ailanthus, mulberry sprouted in shrub beds. Also remove invasive burning bush, barberry, and multiflora rose.
Hollies, azaleas, rhododendrons, lilacs, forsythia, spirea, hydrangeas—all species. Selective or complete removal, any scope.
One of the fastest ways to improve property appearance. Suddenly you can see the house again—spaces feel open and inviting.
Oversized foundation plantings block substantial light. After removal, interiors become noticeably brighter and more livable.
Replace demanding shrubs with lawn or lower-maintenance alternatives. Dramatically reduces trimming, pruning, and watering.
Removing excess plants and creating cleaner designs modernizes properties. Appeals to contemporary tastes and buyers.
Overgrown bushes trap moisture, hide damage, prevent maintenance. Removal allows inspection and proper drainage grading.
Creates a blank slate. Choose plants appropriate for your space, matching your maintenance preferences and lifestyle.
We provide complete removal including roots and stumps—not just cutting at ground level. We excavate root systems, grind stumps below grade, backfill with topsoil, and restore the site. This prevents regrowth and leaves areas ready for replanting. The only exception is if you specifically request we leave roots or stumps to save money.
We work carefully to minimize damage—protective materials placed where equipment travels, hand-digging near plants you want to keep, cautious work near structures. Some minor lawn disruption is inevitable with large removal, but impacts are temporary and easily repaired. We grade and seed disturbed areas as needed.
Foundation plantings are one of our most common removal projects. We use hand tools to excavate roots close to footings without damage—experienced with tight spaces, underground utilities, basement window wells, HVAC equipment, and electrical meters. After removal, we restore grade to slope away from foundations for proper drainage.
Fall or early spring removal allows immediate replanting—these are optimal planting times. Summer removal may benefit from waiting until fall. Many homeowners live with empty beds for a season to think through what they want. We can mulch beds so they look maintained while you decide. When ready, our plant installation services ensure the new landscape is done right.
Transform your Columbia or Howard County property by removing overgrown, dead, or unwanted bushes. Whether you want to remove a single yew or clear an entire property of dated foundation plantings, we deliver clean, professional results with complete cleanup included.
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