Landscaping in Oklahoma City means holding a yard on open ground. Bermuda takes the sun and loses to hail, then sits brown until it decides otherwise. Red dirt blows onto the patio and stains the brick. Young trees on fringe lots lean in the south wind because nobody staked them or because the stake became the problem. Grade is the part that matters to the house: soil against the slab, downspouts that end at the expansion joint, beds that stay wet on clay.
Open with the job that is actually wrong. Weekly mowing. A lawn hammered flat by hail. A gutter dumping at the foundation. A tree over a wide roof that has no business there. A sprinkler head carving a hole in the lawn. If the soil line is high against the brick, say that before you say you want shrubs. Shrubs will not fix a wet slab edge. They will hide it until the smell moves inside.
Exposure changes by neighborhood. Streets in Heritage Hills and Mesta Park have shade, leaf litter, and roots that heave walks. Lots near Lake Hefner and on the outer grid have wind, thin shade, and hail with a clear path. Do not ask for a plan copied from a leafy street if your yard is a sun dish, or the reverse. Describe the light and the wind the way they feel at your address in the afternoon.
Irrigation is everywhere and often aimed badly. South-wind mornings steal the spray. Broken heads flood the bed you just mulched against the house. A zone that will not shut off can mimic a leak. Say what the clock and the heads are doing, or say you have no system and will not pretend otherwise. Planting that needs constant water through a hot, blowing August will fail in public.
Oklahoma City weather will move the dirt again. Call with the part of town and the task, cut, grade, trees, or sprinklers. Walk the south wall and see where the soil touches the brick. Call the number on this page.