Landscaping in Brush Prairie, WA mostly means improving a place that has been here a while. Brush Prairie has the oldest housing in north Clark County's acreage belt, with a median build year of 1977, and the yards show it: tired lawns, overgrown hedges, cracked patios and gravel drives that have lost their shape.
Bogar Landscaping covers Brush Prairie and the rest of the 98606 ZIP code it shares with Hockinson. Estimates are free and done on site, and one crew can take an older property from overgrown and soggy to drained, cleared and replanted.
Brush Prairie's Older Homes and the Yards Around Them
Thirty-five percent of Brush Prairie homes were built before 1970, another 40 percent in the 1970s and 1980s, and only about 4 percent from 2010 on. With roughly 4.9 acres of land per household, most of these are older houses on real acreage. Since so little gets built new, the work here centers on existing properties:
- Yard repair after a remodel or addition. Excavators, dumpsters and concrete trucks leave ruts, compacted soil and cut sprinkler lines. We regrade, loosen the ground, reseed or sod and tie the landscape into the new footprint.
- Old hardscape. Cracked concrete patios and walks from earlier decades come out and get replaced with pavers or stone on a proper base.
- Grown-out plantings. Hedges, foundation shrubs and trees planted 40 or more years ago have taken over windows, walks and roofs.
- Worn gravel drives and parking areas that have lost their crown and filled in with grass at the edges.
We list each of these separately on the estimate, so you can tackle the most urgent first and come back for the rest.
A Prairie Named for Brush and Swamp: Drainage in Brush Prairie, WA
The name is literal. Elmarine Jane Bowman named the place for a brushy prairie and swamp on her father's homestead, and the post office has carried the name since 1871. The wet ground never left. Low spots on the stream terraces in this corner of Clark County can hold soils like the Hockinson series, which the USDA rates somewhat poorly drained and very slowly permeable, while slightly higher ground drains better.
On an older property, a drainage problem is usually decades in the making: downspouts that were never piped, a driveway that sheds water toward the house, a shop built in the low corner. What fixes it:
- Find the source. We walk the property in the rain when we can, and read the moss, stains and ruts when we cannot.
- Pipe the roofs. House, garage and shop downspouts go into solid pipe and catch basins instead of onto the ground.
- Intercept and redirect. French drains and swales catch runoff uphill of the house and move it to a safe spot on the property.
- Regrade around the foundation so soil falls away from the walls, especially after an addition changes the footprint.
Sharing 98606 With Hockinson, With Different Yards
Brush Prairie and Hockinson share the 98606 ZIP code, and the Hockinson School District office is in Brush Prairie, even though most Brush Prairie homes are in Battle Ground Public Schools. The properties differ, though. Nearly a quarter of Hockinson's housing dates from the 2010s, while Brush Prairie's housing is far older, so its yards call for more renovation and less building from scratch. If you live near the line, our Hockinson landscaping page covers the soil and horse-property side in more depth.
SR 503 skirts the west side of Brush Prairie. From here it is about 4 miles north to central Battle Ground and about 5 miles south to the SR 500 freeway at the edge of Vancouver. We reach it from Woodland by way of Battle Ground, and also work in neighboring Meadow Glade, Orchards and Barberton.
