Landscaping in Alaska on this coast gets a short building season between frost heave and the next long dark winter. Spruce and birch over the ridge are a roof problem before they are a garden problem. Wind off Cook Inlet lays a young tree down and dries a new planting. Grade that sends melt into a crawl becomes a wet floor and a call you did not plan. Drainage comes before decoration.
The long summer daylight is the whole opportunity, and it is still a short season. Planting in the last mild week without water is how the row dies at the first hard cold. Say if establishment is part of the work or only the install. Roof shed and inlet wind bury the same bed every winter, and they bury a furnace termination with it.
Frost heave lifts walks, steps, and posts, and a heaved step is a trip now. Downspouts that dump at a crawl vent fill that space in the melt. Extensions, and a bed that does not bury the siding, are the work. Shade from spruce and a birch root change what will grow on the north side. Do not buy a list written for a longer, warmer season.
Limb cleanup after snow break is not mowing unless you say so. If the limb is on the roof, the tree work and the roof look belong in the same short season, because both need the daylight. Stakes matter on an inlet lot. Wind on that lot is a structural fact, not a view. You do not need a drawing. You need the way the melt runs and whether it already reaches the house.
Say the town and whether you need trees, grade, or a planting that died. Mention the crawl if water gets under the house. A limb on the ridge belongs in the same call. The short season ends by itself. The dark months will not finish a yard. Call the number on this page.