Landscaping in Clarence Center
Design, planting, mulch, edging and hardscape touches that give your property a finished look.
Clarence Center sits on our regular route, from the four corners at Clarence Center Road and Goodrich Road out to the long farm roads on either side of the hamlet. Lawn care, landscaping, spring and fall cleanups, sodding, junk removal and snow plowing, handled by one crew that stays the same from the first mow to the last storm.
Our shop is on Casey Road in East Amherst, so this is close work for us, not a favour we squeeze in. Call (716) 388-7887 and a person picks up. Estimates are free, and we're out Monday through Saturday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
What makes Clarence Center properties different
Clarence Center is one of the hamlets of the Town of Clarence, along with Clarence Hollow, Harris Hill, Swormville and Wolcottsburg. The town has no incorporated villages at all, so there is no separate village hall here. What the hamlet does have is the town highway garage, at 6223 Goodrich Road, where residents can drop clean yard brush in the area marked Brush Only.
Lots run large out along the farm roads, so the work gets measured in acres and driveway length instead of small square patches. Clarence's Agricultural Rural Residential rules, written to hold a rural boundary around the town, want at least 1.33 acres for a newly platted single-family lot and 150 feet of frontage on a publicly dedicated right-of-way before anything gets built. The town also runs a Clarence Center Overlay District, adopted in 2012 to keep the place reading as a hamlet, where a three- to five-member Community Character Protection Board appointed by the Town Board reviews site plans.
The ground here is lake clay. The soil survey maps most of the hamlet and the farm land around it as Odessa silt loam, a somewhat poorly drained soil formed in the clayey deposits of old glacial lakes, and the parcels out along Strickler Road as poorly drained Canandaigua silt loam. That is why water lingers after a thaw along Salt, Heise, Strickler and Roll Roads. The hamlet still has houses standing that were built with brick from Jacob Eshelman's Clarence Center kiln.
Brush collection is zoned. The highway department works a different section of town each week, April through November, with collection in your zone starting Monday morning and beginning the following day when a Monday holiday falls in your brush week. There is no brush pickup at all in December, January, February or March. Brush goes out Sunday night, parallel to the roadside, in pieces no longer than eight feet, two truckloads a month. Grass clippings and bagged leaves are never collected, and the highway department does not pick up contractor-generated yard waste.
Services
What we do in Clarence Center
Most of our Clarence Center work starts with the mowing route. Weekly cutting, trimming and edging on acre-plus lawns is what our lawn care crew does here through the summer. The same guys come back for bed work, grading and planting, fresh sod where a repair job tore up a yard, and junk removal when a shed or a barn gets emptied out. Once the ground freezes, the trucks change over to snow plowing on those same driveways.
Lawn Care in Clarence Center
Weekly and bi-weekly mowing, trimming, edging and blow-off on a schedule you can set your watch by.
Snow Plowing in Clarence Center
Seasonal and per-push plowing, shoveling and salting for Western New York winters.
Fall Cleanups in Clarence Center
Leaf removal, bed cutbacks and gutter-line clearing so your lawn goes into winter healthy.
Spring Cleanups in Clarence Center
Dethatching, bed re-edging, fresh mulch and debris haul-off to reset the yard after winter.
Sodding in Clarence Center
Grading, prep and fresh-cut sod that turns bare or damaged ground into instant lawn.
Junk Removal in Clarence Center
Yard waste, brush piles, old furniture and construction debris loaded and hauled away.
Plowing long drives and open Clarence Center road frontage
A three-hundred-foot drive off Salt Road is a different job from a suburban apron, and we stage it differently. With open farm ground on every side, drifting is often the real problem rather than the storm total, and wind across bare fields can pack a cleared drive again with no new snow falling.
- We pick where the snow goes in October, not in January, so the piles never block your sightline pulling out onto Clarence Center Road or Goodrich Road. Nothing gets pushed into the road right-of-way either, which town code forbids.
- Mailboxes get staked. The town will repair or replace one its plow catches, but only with a standard wooden post and metal box, and it says outright that it cannot replace a vanity or masonry mailbox. Yours is worth protecting.
- Walks get cleared where they exist, which here means the blocks through the middle of the hamlet. Town code puts snow and ice removal on the owner or occupant of the property a sidewalk abuts.
Town crews plow the town's own roads plus roughly 55 center-lane miles of Erie County road inside Clarence. On any town or county road here, Local Law No. 2 bans parking from November 1 through April 30 between 1:00 and 7:00 AM. We work around that, and we are on the same properties in January that we mowed in July.
Cleanups that leave with the truck
Here is the part people get wrong about hiring out a cleanup in Clarence. The town highway department does not collect contractor-generated yard waste, and its own yard waste instructions say so plainly: that is the contractor's job. So everything our crew cuts, rakes and pulls goes out on our truck. Nothing sits at your shoulder for three weeks flattening the grass underneath while it waits for a zone week.
Autumn is the heavier job. The mature trees along Goodrich Road and around the old farmsteads drop far more volume than a young subdivision does. Our fall cleanups cut back the beds, pull packed leaf mat off downspout lines and drip edges, and clear the tree lawn, and the load leaves with us. If you would rather put your own leaves out for the town, we will leave them loose and off the pavement in their own heap, separate from brush, which is how the highway department asks for them. In bags they will not be taken at all.
Lawns on heavy ground with wide road frontage
Lawns here tend to run wide and shallow along the road, then deep to a treeline or an open field out back. The road edge takes the abuse. Salt spray off the town and county plows, ruts from delivery trucks during a soft spring thaw, and a tree lawn that is always the last strip to dry out.
We treat that strip as its own project. Ruts get topdressed and reseeded early, salt-burned edges get raked open and patched, and grit thrown off the driveway crown all winter gets pulled back before a mower deck grinds it into the turf. Snow mold turns up under the last drift to melt, usually against a north wall or a windbreak, and it wants raking open rather than a shot of fertilizer.
Farther back, flat grade and heavy soil hold water. Sometimes the fix is a swale or a regrade; sometimes it is only a mowing height and a schedule that stops you rutting your own lawn. We will tell you which one it is. Clarence Center runs on the same day as East Amherst for us, so send us the address and we can usually look at it that week.
Questions & Answers
Clarence Center property care questions
Do you plow long private driveways in Clarence Center?
Yes, and out here that is most of what we plow. A drive running two hundred feet or more off Goodrich, Salt or Heise Road needs a plan for where the snow goes before the first storm, or you are out of room by February. We walk it in the fall, mark the edges and the mailbox, and set pile locations so your sightlines onto the road stay open all winter.
When does the Town of Clarence pick up brush on my road?
The highway department works one section of town per week, April through November. Collection in your zone starts Monday morning, and begins the following day when a Monday holiday falls in your brush week. There is no collection at all in December, January, February or March. Brush has to be out Sunday night, parallel to the roadside, in pieces no longer than eight feet, and there is a two-truckload limit per month with no lot clearing. Grass clippings and bagged leaves are not taken.
Can you haul away what the town brush truck will not take?
Yes, and for us it is the default rather than an extra, because the highway department does not collect contractor-generated yard waste at all. Even for a homeowner the list of what it will not take is long: grass clippings, bagged leaves, dirt, fencing, railroad ties, manufactured wood and building debris. The Brush Only pile at the Goodrich Road garage is for clean yard brush from Town of Clarence residents. We load the rest and take it off the property, so it is not stacked behind your garage waiting on a spring trip somewhere.
Do you clear sidewalks around the four corners?
We do. Most of Clarence Center has no sidewalk at all, but there are public walks along Goodrich and Clarence Center Roads through the middle of the hamlet. Town code puts snow and ice removal on the owner or occupant of the property a walk abuts, so we fold that stretch into the plow visit instead of leaving you a shovel at six in the morning. Tell us which piece is yours and it goes in the quote.
How far is Clarence Center from your East Amherst shop?
Roughly ten minutes. We are on Casey Road in East Amherst, and Clarence Center Road runs east off Transit Road to the four corners, so it is a short, direct run. Clarence Center is a normal stop on our route rather than a detour, which is why we can hold a real schedule there in both the mowing season and the plowing season.
Will you re-sod a lawn torn up by a septic or driveway job?
Yes. A tank repair, a leach field dig or a new driveway leaves ruts and bare subsoil that seed alone will not fix, especially in this clay. We grade it back, bring in topsoil where the digging turned up hardpan, and lay sod so the area knits before winter. If the timing is wrong for sod, we will tell you and seed it instead.
Service Areas
Nearby towns we also serve
We keep a tight radius so we can actually get to everyone, especially when it snows.