Landscaping in Oregon is drainage on the wet west side and a drier, windier plan once you cross the Cascades. A planting list for one will embarrass the other. Moss, mud, and fir debris decide the valley and coast yards. Grade that keeps months of rain off the mudsill matters more than a flower. East-side yards deal with wind and a shorter drink from the sky. Say the town before you say the plant.
Water that runs toward the house becomes a crawl, a rotten rim, and a smell. Swales, downspout extensions, and beds that do not bury the siding matter more than mulch color. On a slope, the hill will shed at the foundation if you give it a path. Fir limbs over a roof are tree work plus a gutter problem, not a mow. Wind on the dry side lays a young tree over if nobody stakes it.
Define the work. Say mowing, grading, trees, or drainage, and say it for the county you live in. Cleanup after a winter of needles and a downed limb is not part of a summer cut unless you say so. Heads that spray siding keep a wall wet that the grade is already threatening. A controller running through a soaked week is how you buy a problem the rain was already delivering.
Dry summer weeks still punish a new planting that has no water plan, even west of the mountains where people forget the sky can close. Say if establishment is included or only the install. Shrubs piled against the siding hold damp against wood that wants to rot. That is a building problem wearing a garden costume. Mention it if the mudsill disappears behind the bed every wet season.
Say the town, mow or grade or trees or drainage, and which way the lot sheds. Mention a slope into the house if that is the worry. The next county does not have your mud or your wind. Rain will find the low side whether the plan is pretty or not. Call the number on this page.