Lawn Services

Southwest Lawn Care and Landscaping offers a variety of services to help keep your lawn healthy and your yard beautiful.

Flower Beds

Add color and beauty to your plain old lawn by adding flower beds. Flower gardening is the horticulturist's reward for hard work. Flowers and flower borders provide color against the predominant green of a landscape. They are the accent and contrast that make a landscape lively and interesting.

Flowers also complement most of the features that conventional landscaping materials, such as trees and shrubs, establish. They can add depth and dimension, form and texture, and change heights and slopes, besides their most obvious asset which is color. Flowers can also be useful, providing culinary herbs for the table and cut flowers for arrangements.

The experts at Southwest Lawn Care and Landscaping can help you create a flower bed that enhances curb appeal or maybe you are looking for a flower bed that requires low maintenance, it's up to you!

Check out our photo gallery to see some of our recent projects.

Sod

There are many advantages of sod:

• Increases home value as much as 15%
• Instant erosion control
• Same day results
• Environmentally friendly - We can add sod to a lawn with bare spots, or replace the lawn altogether.

Contact us to discuss the different sod types and estimates.

Mulch

One of best things you can do for your garden soil is to layer mulch over the bare spots between plants in your planting beds.

Have you ever noticed that Mother Nature doesn't like bare soil? Perhaps you seen how quickly bare patches of soil get covered with weeds. That's Nature's quick and dirty way of ensuring that soil doesn't blow away or get washed away. But if you're a gardener, you aren't exactly in love with weeds.

• A layer of mulch keeps weeds down, mainly by blocking out light they need to germinate - and if a weed manages to poke through, it's easier to pull it out when rooted in a layer of mulch than in the soil.
• Preserves soil moisture by reducing evaporation, and helps prevent erosion caused by rain and wind. Bare soil often gets a crust on it that prevents rain from penetrating easily.
• Moderates soil temperatures. By keeping soil cooler in summer and helps to reduce the risk of damage to plant roots in winter.
• Keeps soil from splashing onto leaves, which keeps plants looking neater and helps prevent soil-borne fungal diseases.
   

Dirt

Depending on what type of project, we can help you determine what types of dirt you need. Fill-in, grading, re-sloping, or adding topsoil to your flower beds, we can help.

Aeration

Aerating your lawn is a great way to reduce thatch, loosen up compacted soils and make it easier for water and nutrients to reach the roots of your turf.

An aeration treatment removes small cores of soil and thatch to allow air, moisture and fertilizer to penetrate down to the root zone. The cores brought to the surface contain microorganisms, which help the breakdown of the woody thatch tissue. This allows the roots of existing grass plants to spread out and grow deeper, creating a healthier, thicker lawn.

Read more about lawn aeration here.