Landscaping in Hawaii is salt, sun, humid rain, and ground that is lava rock or coral soil. Windward yards take showers and stay wet until a bad grade sends that water at the slab. Leeward yards dry out and burn plants that belonged on the wet side. There is no freeze to reset the year and no basement to catch the runoff. Fix that before a bed is the conversation.
Trade winds are a real load on a planting plan. A limb on a metal roof, a hedge that blocks the breeze a single-wall house needs, and a row killed by salt spray are three different calls. People wall off the ventilation with a dense shrub and then cool the rooms to replace the air they stopped. Say if that hedge is the complaint. Termites use fences, stumps, and landscape wood as a path to the structure.
Digging lava rock and coral is not a casual assumption. Drainage trenches, a root that lifted a walk, and a post for a fence all meet that ground. Say what has to move. Low-slope roofs and downspouts that dump at the wall keep a surface wet that the showers already hit. Getting the water away from the house matters more on the windward side and still matters on the leeward side in a hard rain.
Mowing is the small chapter. Irrigation on the dry side, limbs off the roof, and cleanup after a blow are the chapters that protect the building. Salt burn on a hedge will not be solved by a cut. Growth here does not stop for a dormant season. Do not import a calendar from a cold place. If an ohana side yard is the wet spot, say so.
Say the town, windward or leeward, and whether you need grade, trees, salt-burned plants, or wood the termites are using. Mention the slab if water reaches it. Say if a limb is on the roof. The next shower is the test, ready or not. Call the number on this page.