Largo sits ten minutes from our shop, and it’s where we do some of our most practical work: family yards that need to survive kids, dogs, and Florida summers without a full-time gardener. That usually means tough turf where it earns its keep, mulched beds with plants that don’t need pampering, and a patio scaled to real weeknight use.
The city’s older neighborhoods around Keene Park and Harbor Hills have mature trees and established irrigation — often original to the house and quietly failing. Our maintenance plans start with a zone-by-zone irrigation check for exactly that reason; fixing coverage is cheaper than replacing sod every spring.
Largo is also where we build a lot of first paver patios — modest, well-built spaces in the 300–500 square foot range that get expanded later with a fire pit or grill island. Starting small and phasing the backyard is a strategy we’ll happily design around.
What we build most in Largo
Largo is first-patio country: 300–500 square foot tumbled-paver patios designed to expand later, walkways that fix the mud path to the front door, and play-friendly lawn renovations that survive kids and dogs. The other staple is irrigation rescue — finding and fixing the original 1970s systems that quietly fail under half the city’s lawns.
The Largo yard, decoded
- Soil: sandy loam by county standards — forgiving, but compacted hard in older yards; we till and amend beds properly.
- Salt: minimal — inland Largo takes coastal spray off the plant list entirely.
- Canopy: mature and generous around Keene Park and Harbor Hills; newer sections run sunny.
- Water: county watering restrictions; a working rain sensor is the cheapest fix we make here.
- Local quirk: original irrigation lines run exactly where new patios want to go — we locate and reroute during excavation, not after the leak.
Neighborhoods we know well
- Keene Park
- Harbor Hills
- East Bay Estates
- Ridgecrest
