Landscaping in Jacksonville has to live through a frost and a furnace of a summer. Warm-season turf slows and browns when the nights stay cold, which panics people who moved from farther south and think the lawn died. Tropicals and ginger blacken. Camellias and azaleas are in their element. Pines drop needles into every bed. Live oaks shade the grass thin and then throw limbs. At the beaches, salt spray edits the plant list down to what can take the Atlantic. Inland, the edit is cold, shade, and heavy summer rain.
Irrigation still matters in a dry hot spell and becomes a fungus machine if it runs through a wet one. Winterizing is not a myth here the way it is in the south of the state. A hose bib and a backflow device left charged into a freeze will split, so say freeze protection when you call about the system. Heads that spray siding, broken heads, and a controller nobody has reprogrammed since the season changed are the ordinary work. Reclaimed water, where it exists, stays out of the drinking taps.
Tree work is pines and oaks, plus clearance off old roofs that cannot take another limb. Palm pruning is a smaller part of the story than it is in Miami, and a palm that is here still should not be skinned into a sail. Say removal versus pruning, and whether the debris leaves. Grade and drainage matter on flat lots near the river. Water that stands against a crawl-space foundation is how the underhouse stays wet and how flood and landscaping get confused.
After a coastal storm, separate yard debris from house damage. Limbs and salt burn on shrubs are not a roof claim and not a flood. River water that sat in the yard is not wind. If a claim is open, use those words correctly. Say whether the yard is beach, river, or oak inland, and whether you are calling about mowing, a freeze kill, irrigation, or a tree. Call the number on this page.