Landscaping in North Dakota is whatever the heating season lets you touch. The ground is iron for a long stretch, and planting, grading, and irrigation startup wait on thaw. The useful call is about timing. Use the warm weeks to set grade so meltwater leaves the foundation, to plant what must root before the next freeze, and to blow out irrigation before the pipes are at the mercy of a night you cannot negotiate. A weekly mow is a short chapter, not the book.
Windbreaks still matter on the open prairie, and they protect more than the lawn. A row on the windward side cuts the drift that buries a furnace termination and the infiltration that makes the heating load worse. Young trees need staking or the first gust lays them over. Eastern valley soil and western drier ground will not take the same plant list. Say which place you are in. A plan copied from a wetter state will embarrass you by August and be dead by spring.
Clay heaves, and a bed piled against siding holds moisture against a foundation that is about to freeze. That is a heating-season problem disguised as mulch. Downspouts should carry melt past the basement wall, not dump it at the step where it ices the walk and soaks the well. Extensions are part of the landscape. So is a swale you cut while the soil can still be moved. Once the ground locks, you are looking at the mistake until spring.
Cleanup before snow is the other half. Leaves in a gutter become dams. Limbs over the ridge become ice levers. Say if the work is mowing, a windbreak, grading, or getting the season's debris off the house. Irrigation zones that were added for a green July need a blowout on the calendar, not a hope. You do not need a drawing. You need the month you are actually in and the side of the house that drifts.
Say the town, the job, and whether the ground is still open. Mention a termination or a window well that the drifts bury if that is the reason. The heating season will take the yard back. Use the weeks you have. Call the number on this page.