Landscaping in Georgia is grading, trees, and heat, not a bag of flowers. Red clay in the Piedmont holds water against a brick foundation when the beds are piled high. Mountain lots erode on a slope the first hard rain after a clearing. Coastal yards sit flat, stay wet, and burn ornamental plants with salt spray. Pine straw is the mulch for a reason. Hardwood leaves in the north of the state are a different cleanup. Say what the yard is doing to the house, not only how you want it to look.
Trees are part of the building. A limb over a roof, a pine leaning after a wet week, and roots lifting a walk are home problems. Pruning is not the same contract as removal and stump grinding. Ask how limbs will be kept off the roof and off the service drop, and ask whether the debris leaves the property. Live oaks and large hardwoods are not shrubs. Do not let a lawn visit turn into an unplanned felling because a crew brought a saw.
A mowing plan needs months, not a vague word like season. Growth barely stops in the south of the state, and it stops hard in the mountains. Ask what happens in a soaked week and in a dry spell. Clippings mulched or bagged, edges, and leaf cleanup are separate lines. Irrigation is its own scope: a broken head and a new zone are not the same visit. Where a freeze is real, ask about shutting the system down before an ice night. Where it is not, skip the winter ritual.
New beds should name plant sizes and who replaces a plant that dies while it is establishing. Any change in grade against the house should be said out loud. Water that used to run across the lawn and now runs into the crawl space is a building defect you just planted. On the coast, ask for plants that tolerate salt and wet feet. In the Piedmont, ask what survives full shade under a pine canopy, because fescue dreams die in July under that shade.
Say mow, cleanup, beds, trees, or irrigation, and say the city. Landscaping in Georgia should keep water and limbs off the house first. Call the number on this page.