Landscaping in Miami is salt spray, hurricane wind, and tropical growth on fill that drains until it does not. Turf struggles in shade under palms and burns where irrigation misses. Sea grape, palms, and plants that can take salt belong near the water. A plant chosen for a gentler suburb yellows and stalls on a beach lot. Start with the job: irrigation, cleanup, pruning before wind season, beds, or a lawn that has given up.
Irrigation on sandy fill is easy to overdo. Heads that spray stucco push salt and water into walls. A zone that runs through a rainy week grows fungus and mosquitoes. Reclaimed water, where you have it, stays off the drinking taps. Say whether you are fixing heads, adding drip for beds, or replacing a controller you no longer trust. Grade matters on a flat lot. Water that sits against the slab after a storm is not a mowing issue. It is a way into the house.
Palms need a different cut than shade trees. Strip a palm into a feather duster and you have made it more likely to fail when hurricane wind arrives, not less. Hardwood limbs over the tile are a roof problem waiting on the next blow. Fruit and fallen fruit feed roof rats, which is a pest conversation that starts in the yard. Say whether debris must leave, whether you need clearance off the roof, and whether the work is pruning or removal.
After a storm, the yard and the house are easy to mash into one panic. Limbs on the ground are cleanup. A membrane torn by a branch is roofing. Flood water that sat on the lawn is not the same as wind that shredded a hedge. If a claim is open, keep those straight. Describe the exposure, beach or inland, and what the yard is doing between storms. Call the number on this page.
