Landscaping in Jacksonville, AL

The ground in Jacksonville

Jacksonville sits in the valley below the Choccolocco ridges. Established neighbourhoods around the university on settled soil, and newer construction spreading onto the slopes at the edges.

What that means for the build

Two jobs again. The established lots are careful work around mature planting and whatever is already buried; the newer slope lots need the grade solved first. The tornado rebuilding has also left a lot of properties where the landscape is genuinely starting over.

The properties

University-area homes, established neighbourhoods and newer subdivisions.

What usually leads in Jacksonville

Every trade is available across the whole service area. These are the ones that tend to carry a Jacksonville project:

• Planting & Bed WorkBeds cut with a real edge, laid out to the architecture rather than around it, and planted to read as intentional the day it goes in and better in five years.
• Retaining Walls & GradingSegmental block walls, cut-and-fill grading and the drainage behind both. Georgia clay holds water and moves; a wall that was not drained is a wall that leans.
• Sod & Turf EstablishmentFinal grade, amendment, and sod laid tight with staggered joints. This is the single loudest change on any of these properties — clay to closed canopy in one day.

All ten trades run in-house, so one crew and one schedule covers the whole job.

See the work

The featured jobs are documented before and after, from the same camera position. They are the honest version of what a finished project looks like.