HD Landscape and Maintenance provides yard cleanup in Hillsboro, OR — spring and fall seasonal cleanups, overgrowth and invasive clearing, and one-time resets for neglected or newly purchased properties. Everything we cut comes off site on our truck. Oregon LCB #9977.
By Donavan Hesedahl, Owner/Operator · Last updated July 2026
A yard cleanup is a single visit that resets an entire property — cutting back overgrowth, clearing beds, removing debris, edging, and hauling all of it away. It’s scoped by property condition rather than by a fixed task list, which is why a spring cleanup and a post-neglect reset look nothing alike even on the same street.
A standard Hillsboro cleanup from us covers:
Two things a cleanup is not, because scoping this honestly up front saves everyone money: it isn’t tree work, and in fall it isn’t a substitute for repeat leaf visits. If you need canopy work, that’s tree pruning. If leaves are the whole problem and they’re still falling, leaf removal on a multi-visit schedule costs less than repeat full cleanups.
These are genuinely different jobs, and knowing which one you need is most of the decision.
Spring cleanup (late February through April) is about undoing winter. In the Willamette Valley that means:
Fall cleanup (October through December) is about getting the property closed down before sustained rain. Cutbacks, bed clearing, gutters, and the leaf drop. The leaf portion is the part people underestimate, because leaves here fall from mid-October into January rather than all at once — which is why it’s covered separately under leaf removal in Hillsboro.
One-time resets are their own category: rental turnovers, recently purchased homes, estate and probate properties, or a yard that’s had two or three seasons go by. These are priced by condition, not by season, and they’re a large share of what we do in the older parts of Hillsboro.
This is the part that surprises people, and it’s the reason “I’ll just do it myself” tends to stall halfway through a Saturday.
You cannot burn it. Hillsboro city code prohibits outdoor burning of yard debris or trash year-round — not seasonally, not with a permit. Washington County passed a comparable ordinance in 2015 covering unincorporated areas inside the Metro Service District boundary, and DEQ’s regional burn ban boundary sits over the whole Portland metro. Recreational fires in a fire pit, chiminea, or barbecue are fine; a debris pile is not. The City’s burning and air quality page is the reference, and DEQ takes illegal burn complaints at 888-997-7888.
If you’re outside the burn ban boundary — parts of rural Washington County — Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue publishes actual burn seasons: March 1 to June 15 in spring, October 1 to December 15 in fall, subject to daily conditions. Worth checking your specific address rather than assuming, since the boundary doesn’t follow city limits cleanly.
And the curbside cart won’t hold it. Hillsboro residential yard debris service runs on a 60-gallon roll cart with a 100-pound weight limit, collected every other week — not weekly. Overflow has to go in kraft paper bags at an extra fee per bag, capped around 40 pounds each, and plastic bags aren’t accepted at all.
Run the arithmetic on a real cleanup. A moderate spring reset on a standard Hillsboro subdivision lot generates somewhere in the range of fifteen to thirty cart-equivalents of material. At one 100-pound cart every fourteen days, that’s most of a year of curbside capacity for a single afternoon’s work — and wet spring cutback is heavy, so you hit the weight limit long before the cart looks full.
That’s the actual value of hiring this out. Not the raking. The legal disposal of several thousand pounds of wet organic material that can’t be burned and won’t fit in the cart. Everything we haul gets composted.
Yard cleanups are priced by property condition, not square footage — which is the honest answer even though it’s less satisfying than a number. The drivers are how long it’s been since the last cleanup, debris volume and moisture, how much is hand work versus equipment work, access and the distance from the work to the truck, and total disposal weight.
The single biggest variable is time since the last cleanup. A property on a twice-yearly cycle costs a fraction of the same property after three neglected seasons, because overgrowth compounds — blackberry canes root where they touch ground, ivy gets into the canopy, and beds go from weeding to excavation.
We quote on site, in writing, with disposal included in the number rather than added afterward.
We’re based in Aloha, about ten minutes from downtown Hillsboro, so Hillsboro is a standing route rather than an occasional trip across the metro.
In Hillsboro we work Orenco · Tanasbourne · Downtown Hillsboro · Witch Hazel · South Hillsboro · Reedville · Jackson School · Rock Creek · Quatama · Five Oaks · Brookwood · Sunrise Lane.
Cleanup scope varies by neighborhood in a way that tracks how old the plantings are. The established streets around Downtown Hillsboro, Jackson School, and Reedville have mature landscapes — overgrown foundation shrubs planted decades ago, real blackberry and ivy pressure along back fence lines, and deep bed litter. Newer builds in South Hillsboro and Witch Hazel are lighter work: young plantings, less accumulated debris, more about edging and keeping bark dressed. Rock Creek and Orenco run heavy on conifer needle litter, which loads gutters and beds more than lawns.
Outside city limits we cover Aloha, Beaverton, Cornelius, Forest Grove, North Plains, and Tigard, plus unincorporated Washington County. If you’re on an unincorporated parcel, check whether your address falls inside the burn ban boundary before assuming you can dispose of debris on site — the line doesn’t follow city limits.
HD Landscape and Maintenance is an Oregon LCB-licensed landscape contracting business, license #9977. Request a free Hillsboro yard cleanup quote →
Cutting back perennials, grasses, and winter dieback; clearing beds down to clean soil including material packed behind shrubs; weeding and invasive cutback; clearing moss and debris off patios, walkways, and steps; re-cutting bed edges; clearing gutters and downspouts; and hauling everything off site. Tree canopy work and multi-visit fall leaf service are scoped separately, since both are ongoing rather than single-visit work.
Cost is driven by property condition rather than lot size — time since the last cleanup, debris volume and moisture, hand work versus equipment work, access, and total disposal weight. Time since the last cleanup matters most, because overgrowth compounds: blackberry roots where canes touch ground and ivy gets into tree canopies. Properties on a twice-yearly cycle cost a fraction of the same property after several neglected seasons. Quotes are given on site in writing with disposal included.
Twice a year is the baseline for most Hillsboro properties — once in late February through April, once in October through December. Heavily planted or heavily treed lots benefit from a third mid-summer pass for weeds and spent growth. Properties on a regular maintenance schedule need less from each cleanup, since less accumulates between visits. If more than two seasons have passed, the first visit is a reset rather than a cleanup and should be quoted that way.
Spring cleanup undoes winter: moss removal, cutting back dead perennial tops, clearing storm litter, knocking back blackberry and ivy as they break dormancy, and re-cutting bed edges before the first mow. Fall cleanup closes the property down before sustained rain: cutbacks, bed clearing, gutter clearing, and leaf management. The practical difference is that spring is mostly about growth that died and fall is about growth that’s still coming down — which is why fall usually needs more than one visit while spring is typically a single pass.
Yes — everything we cut, rake, or pull leaves on our truck the same day and gets composted. This matters more in Hillsboro than most places, because self-disposal is genuinely constrained: city code bans outdoor burning of yard debris year-round, and residential curbside service is a 60-gallon cart with a 100-pound limit collected every other week. A moderate cleanup produces fifteen to thirty cart-equivalents of material, so it physically cannot go through the curbside system in any reasonable timeframe. Haul-away is included in our quoted price, not billed as an extra.
HD Landscape and Maintenance LLC 6581 SW 192nd Ave Aloha, OR 97007
Phone: (971) 336-5520
Email: hdlandscapellc@gmail.com
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. · Sunday, Closed
License: Oregon LCB #9977
Serving Hillsboro and surrounding areas including Orenco, Tanasbourne, Witch Hazel, Reedville, Rock Creek, and South Hillsboro, plus Aloha, Beaverton, Cornelius, Forest Grove, and Washington County.