Landscaping in Little Rock is a drainage job that happens to include azaleas, crape myrtles, and a canopy of oak. On the ridge, water leaves a steep drive and ends up against a foundation or across a walk. On the flatter south and east, it sits in the lawn and softens beds against the brick. Shade is deep enough in Hillcrest to kill a sun lawn and shallow enough on a west roof line to let heat cook the shingles.
Say whether you need a cut, a cleanup, or water sent somewhere else. Weekly mowing on bermuda is a normal call. So is a bed that holds mulch against weep holes after every storm. So is a limb that now rests too close to a ridge in the Heights. Do not bury the real problem under a wish for new shrubs. If the soil against the house is higher than the floor inside, that is the sentence to say first.
Trees are both the charm and the storm damage. Willow oak, water oak, and pine drop wood onto roofs and clog gutters with tassels and needles until the eave becomes a leak. If a limb is hung up over the house, keep people and cars out from under it and say so when you call. If you want the canopy lifted before the next severe afternoon, describe how close it is to the ridge and to the lines. Leave the cuts to the visit.
Irrigation is spotty in town. Some yards rely on humidity and afternoon rain and still drown a shaded azalea bed. Others bake on a new lot in the western hills where the soil was compacted and the downspouts dump at the corner. If you have zones, say what they fail to do. If you do not, do not let a planting plan assume a daily drink the yard will never get. August will tell on that assumption.
Little Rock storms will move mulch, fill gutters, and test the grade the week after anyone works. Call with the part of town and the job: cut, trees, beds, or water at the foundation. Walk the low side of the house so you can say where the rain wants to stand. Call the number on this page.