About Laredo Landscaping Co

What follows a first call

Say what the property is and what you want out of it, either on the phone or in the form. From there a local landscaping company picks it up: a walk around the lot, afternoon sun noted, depth to the caliche layer checked in a few places, any existing irrigation looked over, then a written quote carrying the plant list and the zone count. Guides on this site supply the numbers to judge that quote by. Nothing in that sequence is billed.

What people call about

• Water bills that stopped making sense. Turf reduction and drip conversion are the two most requested pieces of work in this city, and between them they account for most of what a landscape spends.
• Builder yards on scraped lots. Thin imported topsoil over undisturbed subgrade, a lawn laid wall to wall, and an irrigation layout drawn without reference to a drought stage.
• Replanting after the freeze. The February 2021 winter storm killed a great deal of tropical planting across South Texas while established natives came back from the base, and the yards that never got rebuilt are still out there.
• Shade that was never planned for. In a city averaging 74.2 days a year at or above 100F, an unshaded patio is a photograph rather than a place, and retrofitting shade is one of the most common requests.

Why this ground gets its own guides

Laredo has a hot semi-arid climate, classified BSh, with average annual precipitation of 19.68 inches, an average July high of 100.3F, 74.2 days a year at or above 100F, and a record high of 115F. The Rio Grande is the city's only water source, and Laredo runs a staged drought contingency plan that tightens landscape irrigation as reservoir conditions decline. Under Stage 3 as applied in 2024, sprinklers were limited to one day a week within set hours, with the day assigned by odd or even street number, while drip irrigation and a continuously attended hand-held hose stayed permitted at any time.

The soil is the other half of it. The USDA soil survey records the Brennan series, established in the Laredo area in 1906, as a fine sandy loam with secondary calcium carbonate between 10 and 36 inches down, and the Webb series, named for this county, as a smectitic soil in the hyperthermic temperature regime with sandy clay below the surface. The survey lists buffalograss, tanglehead and trichloris as the climax grasses on that ground. National landscaping advice is not written for any of this, which is why the guides on this site are.

What a well-run landscape job looks like

• The sequence is respected. Grading and drainage, then irrigation mainlines and sleeving, then hardscape, then soil and planting. On this ground you cannot go back and insert a step.
• The ground is tested, not assumed. A dig test in several spots takes twenty minutes and decides the plant list, the tree pit price, and whether the excavation line in the quote is realistic.
• Zones match water demand. One valve serving a lawn and a shrub bed at the same run time is the single most common irrigation fault in this city, and it produces an overwatered bed and a thirsty lawn simultaneously.
• Irrigation is licensed work. The TCEQ licenses Landscape Irrigators, Irrigation Technicians and Irrigation Inspectors under Title 30 of the Texas Administrative Code, and the state's landscape irrigation standards sit in Chapter 344 of that title. Established irrigation companies here hold that licence as a matter of course, and it can be looked up through the TCEQ.

Where we cover

Laredo first, then south along the river to Rio Bravo, El Cenizo, San Ygnacio and Zapata, north up the interstate to Botines and Encinal, east on Highway 359 to Mirando City and Bruni, and the unincorporated communities in between including Ranchitos Las Lomas and Pueblo Nuevo. Landscaping work is performed by independent licensed contractors we connect you with.

Getting hold of us

The number is (956) 477-4933, or there is a quote form. Same working day for a reply. Photographs help a great deal: one wide shot per side of the yard, taken mid-afternoon so the shade pattern shows, tells more in ten seconds than a paragraph does.