Plant, lawn, and pest care in Troy

No street address is published for that home base. Troy is the center of the service list because it is where the company is organized, and because the properties here carry the mix of trees, lawns, and house pests Stewards actually does.

A large grid, not one kind of yard

South of Big Beaver and north of it, the residential sections run from mid-century streets with large maples to later condominium and subdivision landscapes. The Somerset area and the Big Beaver corridor are useful landmarks, not a claim about any particular property. Maple Road and I-75 do the same job: they explain why some evergreens and turf edges take salt and plow damage that a quiet interior street does not.

Lots are often big enough for a real lawn and a row of screening evergreens, and small enough that one declining spruce owns the front yard. That is a different scale from Bloomfield Hills, and a more open scale than the older streets in Birmingham.

Trees people ask about

Maples dominate a lot of right-of-way and front yards. They shade turf, drop honeydew when aphids are heavy, and feed the boxelder bug gatherings in fall where boxelder is mixed in. Colorado blue spruce planted as a screen is showing its age across southeast Michigan, and Troy has plenty of those rows. Needlecast and canker diseases thin them from the bottom. Arborvitae hedges brown at the tips from winter wind, bagworms, or both.

Emerald ash borer took the ash. Some stumps and some poor remaining trees are still part of the landscape, next to replacements that were planted into clay and are now simply young trees trying to outgrow the lawn. A quote that says “the spruce on the west side” or “the maple over the drive” is more useful than a request for a generic program.

Lawns

These are cool-season lawns on ground that often holds water in spring and hardens in summer. Creeping Charlie and thin turf under maples are ordinary. Crabgrass finds the bare spots. Grub damage and the animals that dig for grubs show up from late summer into fall. Stewards does not mow. A Troy lawn quote is about fertilization and pesticide service: weeds, insects, disease, and nutrition. Salt burn along walks and the major roads should be mentioned so it is not treated as a summer disease.

Pests at the foundation

Concrete, foundation plantings, and attached garages give pavement ants a path indoors in spring. Yellowjackets turn up in beds and around bins in late summer. In fall, the sunny side of the house collects boxelder bugs and the other insects that overwinter in walls. Mice use the garage when the weather drops. None of that requires a wildlife trapping service, and Stewards is not offering one.

A Troy request can be one spruce, a lawn, ants in one room, or all three. Say which. If the property is actually in Birmingham or Rochester Hills, those pages are the closer fit, and both cities are on the same list.