Landscaping in Albuquerque is a cold-night plant list, a flat-roof drainage problem, and wind. Chamisa, native grasses, and gravel fit. A lawn fights the climate. Cottonwoods along the ditches and in the valley are the shade and the sewer risk. Canales dump water in one hard spot beside the foundation. If that spot is a planter against adobe or stucco, the next monsoon cell will put the roof water in the wall. Caliche and clay send water sideways. The West Mesa and the foothills are not the same soil as a North Valley lot, and the nights are sharper against the mountains.
Say the job. Cleanup after wind, a tree on the roof, a bed that holds water, drip repair, or a new planting. Ask who adjusts emitters. Ask who replaces a plant that looked fine in the afternoon and died at dawn. That failure is local. People bring low-desert plants up the hill and lose them on a clear night. Ask whether grade changes. Ask for haul-away so cut limbs and weeds do not become pack-rat cover against the stem wall.
Keep trees out of canales and off membranes. A limb on a flat roof is a puncture and a clog. Bosque lots should mention roots and the ditch if irrigation water is part of the property. Foothill lots should mention slope and what runs onto you from above. Spring is windy enough to sandblast a new bed. Summer storms are short. Winter is bright and cold. The maintenance calendar has to name those, not a generic weekly cut.
A light snow still matters. It melts at noon, refreezes in the shade, and heaves a new edge that was set on clay. Ask whether the work survives that cycle, not only the hot afternoon. West Mesa gravel and a valley ditch bank are different soils. The call should hear which dirt is under your feet before anyone names a plant.
Describe the side of town, the roof drainage, and the work. Call the number on this page.