Project one · Yellow Jacket Lane
Compacted clay to a lawn you want to walk on
Four weeks: core aeration, top dressing, corrected mow height, fresh bed lines and hardwood mulch, then a weekly route with the six-step program.
Four weeks: core aeration, top dressing, corrected mow height, fresh bed lines and hardwood mulch, then a weekly route with the six-step program.
The owners wanted something that looked deliberate from the street and did not need babying in August. We pulled the tired shrubs, cut new sweeping bed lines, set a chopped limestone border on compacted base, and planted boxwood, dwarf yaupon and lantana for colour that survives a Texas July.
Three yards of hardwood mulch, a pre-emergent under it, and two sprinkler heads relocated so the new plants get water.
Ask about bed workA backyard that got no use because there was nowhere to sit. We excavated and compacted a base, hand-fit flagstone with tight joints, built a rough-cedar pergola over it, and re-graded the low corner that had been holding water against the slab.
The lawn went back in as sod once the stone work was finished, and the whole yard came onto the Estate plan afterward.
Project pricing
Anyone can make a yard look good the day they finish. The harder work is the 32nd visit in a row, the same edge line, the same blow-down, the same height, in August, when nobody is watching.
That is what most of these photos are: ordinary Thursdays on our route.
A hundred and eighty reviews, and the same complaint from all of them: we should have called sooner.
“Same crew every Thursday for three years. They edge the beds, blow the driveway clean, and I have never once had to text about a missed week. When my sprinkler head cracked they fixed it and put it on the next invoice for eighteen dollars.”
Karen Lindqvist
Chandlers Landing, Rockwall
“We bought a foreclosure in Heath with a yard that was basically a hay field. Miguel walked it with me, gave me a written plan in three phases, and the front looked like a different house inside a month. No pressure to buy the expensive version.”
Aaron Pruitt
Heath
“I fought Bermuda grass and grub damage for two summers on my own. One season on their fertilization program and the lawn is thick enough that my neighbor asked who does it. Worth every dollar of the monthly.”
Denise Whitcomb
Fate