Procare Property Services

Procare Property Services Your yard should be something you're proud to come home to. DM us to request your free property walkthrough.

We design and build landscapes, hardscapes, lighting, and more in Downingtown, West Chester, and the surrounding area. Procare Property Services is a fully licensed and insured family owned local business, providing the best lawn and landscaping services.

08/24/2026

"We had a backyard, we just never went out in it."

This is a common sentiment for a lot of people. Grass, maybe a slab of concrete off the back door, and that was it. Nothing was broken about it. It just never gave anybody a reason to walk outside.

I've seen this on almost every street around Downingtown and West Chester. Nice houses, and the backyard is just something people mow. Dinner happens at the kitchen table instead of outside on a good evening. An entire side of the property, and the only relationship anybody has with it is mowing it once a week.

But imagine this...

A place to sit, a place to eat, a place to actually have people over to watch the Eagles or Phillies. This is how you could be living your outdoor life if the space was how you wanted it to be.

If your backyard is the side of the house nobody goes out to, send me a message and I will come look at it with you.

08/21/2026

"Now we can finally enjoy our outdoor space."

That is what people are actually buying when they call about a patio. They are not buying pavers, or flagstone, or even brick. They are buying peace of mind in their own backyard.

And peace of mind is not something you can see in a picture of a finished patio. It is knowing you can have people over without apologizing for the yard. It is walking out there on a Saturday morning with coffee and not thinking about the project you never finished. It is sitting on the same patio in 10 years and having it look the way it did the week we built it.

That last part is the one almost nobody asks about, and it has nothing to do with the stone. It comes down to what is underneath, and around here that matters more than people realize. The ground in this part of Chester County is heavy clay, and in a lot of these developments the builder scraped the topsoil off and compacted whatever was left before the house ever went up.

Clay holds water, water freezes, and frozen ground moves. That is why a patio in Downingtown or West Chester can start settling and separating in a few years while the same patio somewhere else sits fine.

So the excavation, the base, the compaction, and the drainage are the whole job, and all of it goes in before a single paver gets set. None of it is visible once we are finished, which is exactly why it is the easiest place for somebody to cut corners. When a guy is standing in your yard handing you a number, ask him what he is doing under it. If he cannot answer that, you have your answer.

I have been working in this ground since I was 15 years old so I have seen a lot about our area. And this is what I know to be true.

Fall is a better time to be outside around here than July, and a build like this takes weeks and not a weekend, so if you want to be sitting on it this year it has to start now. If there is a space behind your house you have been putting off, send me a message and I will come out and walk it with you.

08/20/2026

A healthy, thick lawn doesn’t just happen on its own. Core aeration and overseeding are two steps that can make a big difference for your yard.

We use core aeration to pull small plugs from the soil. This helps water, air, and nutrients reach the roots where they’re needed most. After that, overseeding introduces new grass varieties, filling in thin areas and building up resistance to weeds.

These steps work together to give you grass that stands up to foot traffic and changing weather. If you’re looking to boost your curb appeal, now is a great time to ask us about these services.

08/19/2026

There is a trail sitting right off 322 that I would bet you have driven past 100 times without ever looking at it.

Timber Top Trail, on Downingtown Pike between West Chester and Downingtown, directly across from East Bradford Elementary. There is a small parking area and that is about all you can see from the road, so almost nobody thinks twice about it. It is a mowed loop, a little under 2 miles, and it runs right out through the cornfields.

It is an easy walk, the hills are gentle enough for kids, and you can be in and out in under an hour.

A couple of things worth knowing before you go. Leave the dog home, they are not allowed on this one. There is almost no shade, so a hot afternoon is rough. It gets muddy for a few days after a good rain. And it is open to hunting in season, so wear orange in the fall.

I spend a lot of time looking at properties around here and I love finding these places. What is the spot near you that people drive past every day and have no idea is there?

08/17/2026

The beds around your house probably looked great in May, but by the middle of August they usually don't.

That is not neglect, it is just what a full summer does. The shrubs put on growth in every direction, the mulch has thinned out and faded, and weeds have filled in every gap where the ground got exposed. It happens slowly enough that you stop noticing, and then one day you pull in the driveway and the whole front of the house looks tired.

Late summer is a good time to get it back. Cut the shrubs back into shape, clear the beds out down to clean ground, and edge everything so the lines are sharp again. It sets the property up going into fall instead of dragging the mess into it.

The more you get ahead of it now, the easier it is to maintain later. This is always the hard part too because with summer ending, having the time to take care of it can be difficult.

We suggest just doing a little at a time because it makes it much easier.

“One of the biggest issues was always trying to get someone on the phone.”A homeowner wrote that in a review last month ...
08/14/2026

“One of the biggest issues was always trying to get someone on the phone.”

A homeowner wrote that in a review last month about the lawn companies he used before us.

And that line right there is a big reason people leave a landscaper.

It’s almost never the mowing.

It’s calling with a question, getting a voicemail nobody returns, and then wondering for a week if anyone is even coming.

Here’s how it works with us:

When you call, Gus picks up.

Gus has been fielding our calls for years. He knows our customers, he knows the properties, and he actually helps you.

What a lot of our customers may not know is that Gus is also a highly decorated veteran. The same professionalism, discipline, and commitment to service that he has demonstrated throughout his life is something he brings to Procare every single day.

The homeowner who wrote that review specifically said Gus has been helpful and professional every single time he has reached out.

That’s exactly what I want people saying about our company.

Our crews do great work. That matters.

But Gus answering the phone, solving problems, and making sure our customers know they’re being taken care of is a much bigger part of why people stay with us than most people would guess.

Great landscaping gets you a customer. Great service keeps them.

If you have a question about your property, send me a message. I’ll get back to you myself.

08/12/2026

Procare started on Highland Avenue in Downingtown.

I was 14, mowing yards in my neighborhood for money. I had no idea it would ever be more than that. Now we have 4 crews, over 170 five-star reviews, and clients who have been with us for 10 years.

Every bit of it traces back to this town. Downingtown is where I learned to work, and no matter where the business goes, it will always be a special place to me.

What is the place in Downingtown that means something to you?

08/10/2026

Fall is the perfect time to give our lawns a boost before winter sets in. Core aeration and overseeding help loosen up compacted soil and give new grass seed the best shot at thriving. This means stronger roots, thicker grass, and a lawn that stands up better to the changing seasons.

By letting air, water, and nutrients reach deeper into the soil, we're setting our lawns up for a healthy rest and an even brighter green come spring.

Let’s get ahead of the cold together—reach out if you’re ready to schedule core aeration and overseeding.

08/10/2026

Every property has that one spot nobody wants to deal with.

The back corner that got away from you a few summers ago. The property line where the brush crept in a little more every year until you stopped looking at it. It feels too far gone to touch, so it just keeps growing.

This is what it looks like when we deal with it. This was a commercial property, but we clear the same mess for homeowners all the time. Brush, overgrowth, vines, all of it out, and you get that part of your property back.

The best part of these jobs is the before and after. It never gets old.

If you have a spot like this at your house, send us a message and we'll will come take a look.

08/07/2026

"It came up fast, and then it died off."

That is what I hear about seeding all the time. You bought the bag, which is not cheap, you gave up a Saturday walking the whole yard with a spreader, you watered it every day like you were supposed to.

And it worked. Green came in within 2 weeks and you felt pretty good about yourself. Then it thinned right back out, and by spring you were staring at the same bare spots you have been staring at for years.

Here is what happened. Seed will germinate on almost anything as long as you keep it wet, which is why it came up so fast. But germinating and rooting are two different things.

The roots went down a couple inches, hit clay that got packed hard all summer sitting on subsoil the builder crushed flat before your house was ever framed, and stopped right there. So the day you eased up on the watering, there was nothing holding them.

That is me on the machine in this video, and I have been running a core aerator across yards in this area since 2015. I have pulled plugs out of ground in yards all around Downingtown, West Chester, Malvern, and everywhere in between.

The yards that come back thick every spring are the ones where somebody opened the ground up before the seed went down. It is not the seed brand and it is not the fertilizer. It is whether the roots had anywhere to go.

Late August through September is the window. Send us a message and I will get you on the fall schedule.

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