Landscaping in Fargo waits on the heating season to let go of the ground. For a long stretch the yard is not a job. It is a surface the wind drifts across, burying foundation plants on the north and west and packing snow against a furnace termination. The work that matters is timed: grade and planting while the soil is open, mowing in the short green stretch, cleanup before snow, and irrigation blown out before a night you do not get to negotiate.
Clay heaves and holds water against basements. A bed piled over the siding, or a downspout that ends at the step, becomes a spring flood and a winter ice sheet. Fix the grade while you can still move soil. Extensions and a swale are landscape work with a plumbing result. Trees need staking on this fetch or they lean before they root. A windward row does more than look nice. It cuts the drift that buries the side of the house and the infiltration that punishes the furnace.
New south-side lots and older shaded streets are different yards. Open lots dry and drift. Older trees drop limbs on roofs and fill gutters that then dam ice. Say which lot you have. Storm debris is not included unless you say it is. Leaves left in the gutter become part of the roof problem the heating season will exploit. Haul them out before the first hard freeze locks them in place.
Irrigation should be blown out, not hoped over. A split line shows up as a soggy mess when you can finally see the lawn, which is too late. You do not need a drawing to start. You need the month, the direction of the drifts, and whether water runs at the basement. Planting in the last warm week with no plan to water is how the row dies under the first real cold. Say if establishment is part of the ask or if this is only cleanup.
Say the neighborhood and whether the ground is open. Say grade, trees, mow, cleanup, or sprinklers. Mention a termination or a window well the drifts bury if that is the reason you called. The heating season takes the yard back on its own schedule. Call the number on this page.