Landscaping in Des Moines gets shredded by hail and then has to live with clay, freeze, and open wind. Leaves hole, beds flatten, and young bark scars in one pass. That cleanup is the urgent call. Grade is the lasting one. Water that sits against a foundation will fill a basement on the next hard rain, hail or not. Downspouts stuffed with granules and leaf mash make this worse. Clear the water path before you replant a show bed.
A limb on the roof or over a walk comes before flowers. Hail-split crotches fail later in ordinary wind. Say if a tree is on the house now. Heaved walks are a trip in the first ice. Salt and plows will kill the same edge they killed last spring. Seed alone dies there again. Shrubs in the splash zone rot at the crown. A west-facing planting takes the storms the same way the windows do.
Soil sloping toward the house beats any shrub you add. A swale beats a pipe that dumps the puddle on the neighbor. Say if their grade already sends water to you. Mulch on the trunk rots bark that wind finishes. Choose plants that can take hail, clay, and a real winter, not a mild week. Irrigation must be blown out or it becomes a frozen line. Containers are not a yard rebuild.
If the gutter is packed with granules, the landscaping and the roof are sharing a symptom. Mention it, and do not expect a bed to fix a bruised slope. Fungus shows up in humid stretches on crowded lawns. A hot week scorches new plants with no water plan. If you are only planning, say so. If water is at the wall or a limb is overhead, say that louder. Edging decides what stays keepable.
Lead with a damaged tree, drainage, or a walk you cannot trust. Name whether hail just crossed the yard. Des Moines storms do not spare the soft tissue of a lot. Call the number on this page.