Landscaping in Indiana is four seasons on clay, usually on a flat lot with nowhere obvious for water to go. Spring is mud and heaved walks. Summer humidity marks the turf. Fall dumps leaves ahead of frost. Winter splits sprinkler lines and salts the roadside grass. Grade aimed at the house sends storms into the basement. Farm-edge lots also catch wind and seed from the field next door.
Trees and wind are a roof conversation after every spring storm. Limbs over a house in open country drop harder than limbs in a tight town. Pruning is not removal, and neither is stump grinding. Debris has to leave or it shelters pests. Hail-broken limbs are common after those spring lines of storms. Say if the wood is on the roof, on a line, or shading a wet foundation.
Irrigation left full through a freeze cracks heads and pipes, then floods a bed at startup. Blowing the system out is the fall job. Finding the splits is the spring job. A new zone is not a broken-head repair. Locate lines before digging, especially near a well, a septic field, or a sump discharge. If a backflow device is required locally, put the test in the same conversation.
Mowing months differ from the southern hills to the central plain, so the schedule has to say which. Leaf work in an older town is not the same visit as a wide open lawn. Mulch against siding wets the wall. If a new plant dies, say who waters once the crew leaves. Name shade, sun, or a low spot that never dries.
Say mowing, drainage, trees, or sprinklers, and say what the last storm did to the grade. A heaved walk is not a decoration problem. Water standing against the foundation after a rain belongs in the first sentence. Call the number on this page.