Landscaping in Nashville is cedar, hardwoods, and hills that send water at basements. Ice loads limbs over bungalow roofs in East Nashville and over slopes farther out. Clay and thin soil wash when a bed is built on the uphill side of the brick. The basin holds humidity. A shady yard under cedars will not grow the lawn a sunny south-of-town lot expects. This is not delta flatland and not a mountain clear-cut. It is a hill city. Start with where water and limbs meet the foundation.
Limb clearance is a different job from felling, and felling is a different job from the stump. Ask how branches stay clear of the service drop and how brush leaves a tight Twelfth South lot versus a wider hill lot. A mow should not become a felling. Roots lift walks and invade beds. Any berm or bed that traps water against a basement wall is a building mistake. Say basement if you have one, because the grade conversation changes. Debris after a wind event is cleanup, not a new garden.
Mowing has to survive a wet spring and a hot stall. Ask what is skipped on soaked ground, whether clippings stay, and whether cedar and oak debris are included or held for a separate pass. Irrigation is its own scope. A broken head is not a new zone. Draining the system before ice matters on these hills. Skip a delta plant list and skip a high-ridge one. Cedar shade, heat, and slope are the local tests.
Name sizes and who replaces a plant that fails while it establishes. Under cedars, plant for dry shade. On a west-facing slope, plant for heat and for holding soil. Call out any soil added at the house. A low corner that takes the neighbor's hill may need grade more than it needs shrubs. Mosquitoes in that corner are the hint. Stone and limestone outcrops are common. Do not pretend the lot is deep loam if the shovel says otherwise.
Say mow, trees, grade, beds, or irrigation, and say if the house has a basement on a hill. Landscaping in Nashville should keep water out of that basement and limbs off the roof. Call the number on this page.