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 set out what each of those pieces of work involves and what it costs. 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 with fewer zones than the yard has jobs.
• 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, taking 19.68 inches of rain in an average year, running an average July high of 100.3F and 74.2 days a year at or above 100F, with a record high of 115F. The Rio Grande is the city's only water source, with no groundwater fallback behind it, and rain that light in heat that persistent means anything planted here is living on irrigation rather than on weather. It also means the delivery method matters: a spray head on an open lot in July loses a serious share of its output to evaporation and drift before the water reaches root depth, and drip does not.

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 accumulated beneath it, 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.

Four things this ground does to a landscape

• Grade and buried work only happen once. Everything visible sits on top of them, so moving either afterwards means taking up what is above it. That is why they cost so little in the first phase of a job and so much in the third.
• The ground is not the same across one lot. Depth to the cemented layer changes from one corner of a property to the other, which means a map cannot answer it and neither can a photograph. Only digging can.
• One valve cannot serve two water budgets. A lawn and a shrub bed on the same run time is the most common irrigation fault in this city, and it produces an overwatered bed and a thirsty lawn at once, out of the same meter.
• Drought tolerance arrives late. Almost every loss on a drought-tolerant planting traces back to the water going off in month three, when the plant was still living inside the root ball it came in.

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 the independent contractor we refer you to.

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.