Landscaping in Dallas is black clay, foundation movement, Bermuda lawns, and a spring that can hail the leaves off a tree in one afternoon. A dry stretch pulls soil away from the slab. A hard rain then stands in a low bed against the brick. The yard has to keep the soil around the house evenly moist without turning the turf into a pond.
Grade and watering are the actual design. Soil sloping into the foundation wets the brick ledge every storm. Sprinklers that never reach the perimeter let the clay shrink and stick doors inside. Sprinklers that run every night in humid spells invite fungus and shallow roots. Ask for heads that water the soil you mean to protect, and for a slope that sends the rest away from the house. Say where water stands an hour after a storm and where the soil has pulled back.
Hail and the short freeze beat up plants on a different calendar from the summer heat. Ice strips canopies and drops red-oak limbs onto roofs and fences. A single cold night burns tender growth and can split above-ground irrigation pipe and the backflow. That is a plumbing-adjacent landscape failure, and it belongs in the call. Do not rip out shrubs that are only defoliated until someone who knows this climate looks at the wood.
Trees are doing structural work whether you asked them to or not. Limbs over the roof become a roof call after ice. Roots in a lateral become a drain call. Shade that keeps a crawl space damp is part of the termite story. A landscape plan that ignores those three will grow a pretty bed and a real house problem beside it. Ask what gets pruned off the roof line and what stays to shade the west wall through the long heat.
Describe the yard: clay, sun, and whether the trouble is grade, a tired Bermuda lawn, irrigation, or limbs. Say if the foundation has visible gaps after a dry month. Mention the backflow if a freeze is what broke it. Ask for a plan that steadies the soil at the slab and gives hail-beaten plants an honest chance. Call the number on this page.