Landscaping in Broomall, PA — Marple Township Post-War Properties

Broomall is the residential centre of Marple Township — a Delaware County community built out largely between the late 1940s and the 1960s, with split-levels, ranchers, and colonials on quarter-acre to third-acre lots. The housing stock is consistent, well-kept, and now old enough that the original landscaping has reached the end of its useful life.

JHL Landscape Design serves Broomall from our Newtown Square studio, about three miles west on West Chester Pike. That proximity matters on a build: our crews are on site early, and the design team can walk a Broomall property on short notice during the drawing phase.

What Broomall Properties Typically Need

Most of the Broomall work we are asked to price falls into a small number of recognisable patterns:

Foundation plantings installed in the 1960s that have outgrown the house — yews and junipers now above the window line
Original concrete stoops and walks that have heaved, cracked, or settled away from the front door
Back yards that are open lawn with no defined outdoor living space
Grading that sends water toward the house on the classic split-level side elevation
Mature street trees that constrain what can be planted and where

The most common Broomall project is a front-yard reset — remove the overgrown foundation planting, rebuild the entry walk and stoop in bluestone or paver, and replant at a scale that suits the house rather than swallowing it. It is a contained project with an outsized effect on the property.

Drainage on Marple Township Lots

Marple Township sits on the same clay-heavy soils as the rest of eastern Delaware County, and the post-war grading practice on these lots was rarely generous. We see the results regularly:

Downspouts discharging at the foundation with no extension or drywell
Negative grade along the side yard between closely-spaced houses
Standing water in the rear lawn for days after a storm
Basement moisture that turns out to be a surface-water problem, not a foundation one

We resolve these as part of the design rather than as an afterthought — drainage and grading gets specified before the patio layout is final, because a patio built over an unresolved drainage problem simply relocates it.

Outdoor Living, Scaled to the Lot

Broomall lots reward restraint. An oversized patio consumes a yard this size; a well-proportioned one makes it feel larger. We design to the space you actually have:

Patios sized to the furniture plan, not to the maximum the yard allows
Privacy screening along the side property lines where houses sit close together
Fire features that anchor a seating area without dominating the lawn
Planting that gives four-season structure in a yard you see from the kitchen window every day

Services in Broomall, PA

Broomall Landscaping Questions

Q: Do you work in Marple Township outside Broomall proper? A: Yes. We cover the whole township, and the neighbouring Delaware County communities on the same side of West Chester Pike. Our Newtown Square studio is roughly three miles from the centre of Broomall.

Q: Can you replace a front walk and stoop without redoing the whole yard? A: Yes, and on a Broomall property it is often the single highest-return project. Entry walk, stoop, and a right-sized foundation planting is a defined scope with a clear price and a visible result.

Q: My split-level takes water along the side of the house. Is that a landscaping job? A: Usually, yes. Most of what we see is surface water — downspouts discharging at the foundation and a negative grade in a narrow side yard. Those are graded and piped solutions, not foundation work. We assess it before quoting anything else, because a patio built over an unresolved drainage problem just moves the water somewhere new.

Q: Are you licensed to do this work in Pennsylvania? A: Yes. PA Home Improvement Contractor licence #PA035784, and we carry liability and workers’ compensation cover.

Nearby Communities We Serve

Serving Broomall (19008) from our Newtown Square studio. Request a design consultation or call (610) 892-4099.

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