Landscaping in Wichita is cottonwoods, a transition lawn, and hail that can mow better than you can. Riverside and the river parks show what the trees want to do: big, fast, messy, and happy to drop limbs on a roof. College Hill has shade and roots that heave walks. Open lots south and west have wind, younger trees, and bermuda or fescue that a single core turns into tan stubble. Under all of that, the grade either sends water away from the basement or it does not.
Lead with the house, not the flowers. Downspouts emptying into a window well. Soil high against siding. A limb on a ridge in Delano. A sump running because the side yard slopes back toward the foundation. Weekly cutting is a legitimate call if the lawn is truly the job. It should not be the sentence you hide a wet basement behind. Say the wet part first.
Trees along the river are a standing negotiation. Cottonwoods shed fluff that clogs gutters and seed that piles in beds, and they break when plains wind and saturated ground agree. If something is hung over the house, keep people out from under it and open with that. If you want the canopy lifted off a ridge, describe the overlap in ordinary words. A shelter of trees is pleasant until it is a hole in the roof, and both things can be true on the same street.
Irrigation has to match the exposure. A shaded Riverside lawn and a sun-blasted fringe lot should not share a schedule, and a zone that sprays the siding will soak the basement wall you are trying to protect. Hail will flatten annuals regardless. If you have heads and a clock, say what they get wrong. If you have neither, say so before a plan assumes a daily watering through a hot, windy stretch that this city will absolutely provide.
Wichita hail and river wind will rearrange the yard after the work. Call with the neighborhood and the task: cut, trees, grade, or sprinklers. Walk the basement windows and the south side first. Call the number on this page.