We read the water first. Serving Louisiana & the Mississippi coast.
On this coast a landscape is a water problem wearing a plant costume. We look at where rain lands, where it sits and where it leaves — and design everything else after that.
Move the pointer across the header — the surface behaves like water, because that is the point.
What we measure
Figures describe Gulf coast conditions and ordinary practice — not a measurement at your property and not a performance promise.
Drainage before planting, planting before decoration. It is not a sales sequence, it is the order in which a Gulf coast property actually works.
French drains, catch basins and regrading that move Gulf rain away from your slab instead of into it. The first thing we look at on every property.
Read more Water you controlZone-by-zone sprinkler design, repair and smart controllers — the amount each part of the yard actually needs, and not one gallon past it.
Read more Planted for this groundBeds, plantings, sod and stone chosen for Louisiana heat and Louisiana rain, installed by one crew that stays until the walk-through.
Read more Held to a scheduleWeekly mowing, edging, feeding and weed control on a route you can set your watch by — with photos of the finished work.
Read more After the water leavesDowned limbs, scoured beds, wrecked trees — cleared, documented and put back. We triage storm calls the day they come in.
Read more Built on a real basePaver patios, walks and retaining walls set on an excavated, compacted, drained base — the part underneath that decides the next thirty years.
Read moreScroll it. This is what a storm does to a yard, and where every decision we make actually gets tested.
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Rain arrives faster than soil can take it. On a flat, compacted lawn it starts sheeting within minutes — always toward the lowest thing nearby, which is usually the house.
What we do about it — We map that low line before anything is planted.
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Planting beds are the first reservoirs. Mulched too deep or edged too high, they become bathtubs against the foundation instead of the sponge they should be.
What we do about it — Bed depth and edge height are drainage decisions, not tidiness decisions.
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Three inches in ninety minutes is an ordinary Gulf afternoon. Grade, swale and drain either carry it now or they do not, and the yard tells you which within the hour.
What we do about it — Fall of 1–2% across the lawn, and a French drain where the fall runs out.
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A good landscape is dry underfoot a few hours later. Water still standing the next morning is not a weather problem — it is a grading problem wearing a weather costume.
What we do about it — If it is still wet at breakfast, we regrade. We do not sell you plants that drown.
Rainfall figures here describe Gulf coast weather generally. They are not a measurement taken at any particular property, and nothing on this page is a performance guarantee.
No review counts, no project totals, no star ratings. This is a demonstration site, so what you get instead is the arithmetic we actually use.
Found, did, now. Written the way we would describe a job to the next crew, not the way a brochure would. These projects are invented for this demonstration site.
Regrade + drainage Prairieville, LA
Installation Baton Rouge, LA
Irrigation Denham Springs, LA
Hardscape Gonzales, LA
Storm response Covington, LA
Roughly forty minutes, most of it spent looking at the ground rather than at plants.
Sheet flow, concentration, standing and discharge. We walk the perimeter and the low third, and check the fall in the first ten feet around the slab.
Compaction, bed heights, root flares buried by years of mulch, and whether the turf problem is a turf problem at all. Most of them are not.
Children, dogs, shade, the grill, the neighbour's oak. Only then do we talk about plants — and often the honest answer is a regrade and a refresh, not a redesign.
Month to month. Priced from the measured property rather than from a table, because a quarter-acre corner lot and a shaded townhouse yard are not the same job.
Route
Mowing and upkeep on a schedule
A yard that only needs keeping
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Route, plus the soil underneath
A lawn you want to actually improve
Watershed
The whole property, read as one system
Larger lots and properties with water trouble
Cancel whenever. We would rather keep you by turning up than by holding a signature.
These are sample testimonials written for a demonstration site, not real customer reviews. There is no rating and no review count anywhere on this site, because there is nothing real to count.
Wind put limbs all over our street. They cleared the yard the same week, photographed everything for our own records, and reset the flower beds. The crew raked paths we did not know we had.
Two other companies told me I needed all new sod. These found the actual problem — a broken irrigation valve — and fixed it for a fraction of the price. That is the sort of thing that gets the next job.
Called about a tree leaning over the patio. They came out, took it down in sections, ground the stump and sent photographs of the lot. I understand now why the whole street uses them.
Written to be useful whether or not you ever call us.
You do not need a survey to find out where your yard sends its water. You need one heavy rain and twenty minutes of paying attention.
6 min read BedsTwo to three inches suppresses weeds and holds moisture. Five inches sheds rain, rots trunks and turns a bed into a dam.
5 min read StormsThe useful preparation happens in May. In the seventy-two hours before landfall there are about four things worth your time.
7 min readYes, and with no obligation. We walk the property, look at where water goes, talk through what you want, and give an honest recommendation with a firm itemised price — including "leave it alone" when that is the right answer.
Standard walk-throughs are usually within a few working days. Storm damage and hazard trees are triaged the day they come in — call (225) 555-0142 and we will sort it out on the phone.
This is a demonstration site, so it publishes no licence numbers, insurance certificates or accreditations. A real landscape company should hand you a licence number and a current certificate of insurance before it starts work, and you should read both. Ask any contractor for them, including us.
Because on the Gulf coast it is the variable that decides everything else. Plant choice, bed depth, turf health, patio life, tree stability — all of them follow the water. Getting it wrong is the single most expensive mistake in a landscape.
Every season. Access cleared first, hazard trees rigged down, damage photographed and listed, then the landscape restored. You make the decisions; we make sure you are not making them blind.
A free walk-through, an honest recommendation and a firm itemised price — including "leave it alone" when that is the right answer.
Mon–Fri 7am–5pm · storm calls triaged same day