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SpringFebruary to April

Anyone can make a yard look good in April.

We keep Gulf South properties in shape through pollen, heat, storm season and frost. Same crew every visit.

A Baton Rouge front garden in early spring, low sun across a mown lawn under a live oak
Baton Rouge, second week of March

A lawn is four things, and you only ever see one of them.

Most yard problems in this part of the country are not a grass problem. They are a thatch, soil or root problem showing up at the surface a season later.

  • Grass is the part that gets blamed. It is the last layer to show anything.
  • Thatch over half an inch stops water and feed reaching the soil at all.
  • Clay soil compacts under mowers and holds water in the wrong places.
  • Roots decide whether the yard survives a Gulf South August.

See the lawn program

  • GrassWhat you see
  • ThatchDead stems, half an inch is the limit
  • SoilGulf South clay, slow to drain
  • RootsWhere August is won or lost

SummerMay to August

The work we are on your property to do.

A crew member mowing a shaded Baton Rouge lawn Lawn care and mowing

Weekly cuts at the height the grass can actually carry.

A planted bed drawn around an existing live oak Landscape design

A plan drawn for your soil, your light and your drainage.

A flagstone patio with planted joints at dusk Hardscaping

Patios, walkways and retaining walls built to sit still.

An irrigation head running across a lawn Irrigation systems

Install, repair and controllers that follow the weather.

A crew member pruning a mature oak limb Tree services

Pruning, thinning and safe removal, with the cleanup.

Water running off a lawn after heavy rain Drainage solutions

Working out where the water goes before it goes wrong.

The year, honestly

Nothing in a Gulf South yard looks good all twelve months by accident. Here is what the work actually is.

  • Jan

    Dormant pruning

    Crepe myrtles, roses and fruit trees get cut while the sap is down and the shape is visible.

  • Feb

    Pre-emergent goes down

    One narrow window decides how much crabgrass you are pulling in June.

  • Mar

    First cuts, fresh edges

    Growth restarts. Beds get recut and mulched before the weeds wake up.

  • Apr

    Planting and sod

    Warm soil and reliable rain. The easiest month to put something new in the ground.

  • May

    Irrigation audit

    Heads checked, zones retimed and coverage walked before the first dry week.

  • Jun

    Mowing height goes up

    A taller blade shades its own roots. Cutting short in June is how a lawn burns.

  • Jul

    Deep water, less often

    Two long soaks beat seven short ones. We adjust the controller, not just the mower.

  • Aug

    Hold the line

    Almost nothing new goes in. The work is keeping what is already there alive.

  • Sep

    Storm work

    Debris, leaning limbs and washed out beds after whatever the season sent through.

  • Oct

    The best planting month

    Warm soil, cooler air. Roots set all winter and meet next summer ready.

  • Nov

    Leaves and drainage

    A blocked drain in November is standing water in February.

  • Dec

    Hardscape and heavy work

    Cold, firm ground is the right time for patios, walls and regrading.

Summer is not a maintenance season. It is a survival one.

Between May and September the job changes. Cutting height, watering depth and shade matter more than anything you plant. Crews that keep mowing the way they did in March are the reason yards go brown in strips.

01

Raise the deck

Blades come up in June and stay up. A taller leaf shades its own root zone and holds moisture the soil cannot.

02

Retime the water

Two deep soaks a week beat daily sprinkling. We set the controller when we set the schedule, not after the yard tells you.

03

Leave the planting

Almost nothing new goes in during August. We will tell you to wait for October rather than sell you a bed that will not take.

AutumnSeptember to November

What people say after a few seasons of us.

Landscaping is not a one-off purchase. These are from properties we have been on for more than a year.

  • They told us the back corner would never hold grass and put in a bed instead. Two summers on, they were right and it still looks planned.
    Renée ThibodeauxPrairieville
  • Same two men every Thursday for three years. They know which gate sticks and where the dog gets out.
    Marcus LandryMid City, Baton Rouge
  • After the August storm they had the driveway clear before the power came back on. No fuss about it.
    Alicia BoudreauxMandeville
  • We asked for an irrigation system. They walked the yard and told us we needed drainage first. Saved us a lot of money.
    Dwayne PitreGonzales
  • The estimate matched the invoice. That alone put them ahead of the last two companies we used.
    Hollis VidrineDenham Springs
  • They cut the lawn higher through July and explained why. First summer it has not gone brown in patches.
    Carla NguyenKenner

Read more of them

Autumn light across a southern garden, leaf litter drifted against a stone border

27 towns, and a crew that knows the drive.

We run out of Baton Rouge and work across south Louisiana and the Mississippi coast. The same route every week is how a crew learns a property.

WinterDecember to January

The season a yard tells you the truth.

With the growth gone you can finally see the grade, the drainage and the bones of the planting. It is the cheapest time of year to fix any of them.

Regrading and drainage

Firm ground takes machinery without tearing the yard up. Standing water gets solved now, not in June.

Hardscape builds

Patios, walls and walkways go in while there is nothing growing to work around.

Structural pruning

Bare limbs show you the shape. Cuts made in January are the ones nobody notices in May.

Book a winter walk round

A frosted southern garden at dawn with bare pruned crepe myrtle and dormant turf

Tell us about the property. We will tell you what it needs.

The visit is free and it is a real look at the soil, the drainage and the light, not a measure-up. If the honest answer is to wait a season, that is what you will hear.

Get a free estimate (555) 987-6543

An Evergreen work truck loaded with brush beside two wheelbarrows