Service areas · Sarasota
Sarasota, home turf.
Sarasota is home base, and most of the testimonials on this site come from Sarasota homeowners. From mid-century ranches under old oaks to newer homes off the Tamiami Trail, this is the work we know best.
- Sarasota & Manatee County
- Free on-site estimate
- You deal with the owner
Sarasota, as a place to build a yard
The city’s neighborhoods are wildly different from block to block: Laurel Park’s bungalows, Southside Village’s tree-lined streets, Gillespie Park’s older cottages, the bayfront lots of Bay Point and Indian Beach–Sapphire Shores. Sarasota is also home to the Sarasota School of Architecture — the mid-century modern houses that want clean, restrained planting rather than a jungle.
Older lots often come with big live oaks, decades of overgrown foundation shrubs and a lawn that has seen better days. Newer homes in the county tend to have the opposite problem: a thin builder package and not much else.
What usually makes sense here
A front-yard redo that keeps the good trees, pulls the tired shrubs and turf, and replaces them with palms, layered tropicals and bigger, simpler beds. Often a paver walkway or a widened paver drive to go with it.
For mid-century homes, the same idea with a lighter hand: fewer species, more repetition, gravel or rock in place of lawn.
What Sarasota homeowners call about
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Landscape Installation
Full front- and back-yard redos: tear-out, beds, palms, plants, rock, sod — installed by one crew.
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Paver driveways
New drives, circular motor courts, extensions, and matching existing pavers.
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French Drains
Pooling water, soggy beds and side-yard swamps — collected and carried away.
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What Dan and Linda Raisovich wrote
Craig from Sarasota Landscaping Inc, returned my call the same day and arrived at 10:30 the next day, just as he said he would.
Landscaping in Sarasota: questions
01Do you work throughout the city of Sarasota?
02Can you work around the big oak in my front yard?
03My yard floods after storms. Can you help?
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Free on-site estimate in Sarasota.
Say what the job is and the street. Craig will set a time to walk the property.