Landscaping & Lawn in Naples & Southwest Florida

Weekly from roughly June through September — St. Augustine grass grows fast in daily rain and heat — then every other week through the dry season. Most annual contracts here are built around that split, commonly forty-plus cuts a year. Cutting height matters as much as frequency: scalping Floratam stresses it and opens the door to weeds and chinch bugs, so don't reward the crew that mows shortest.

It depends on lot size, how much your HOA already covers, and what's bundled: mowing alone, or trimming, mulch, fertilization, pest treatment, and irrigation checks too. Palm count matters more than people expect, since trimming tall palms is separate skilled work. Before taking quotes, get in writing exactly what your community's dues already include — paying twice for the same mow is a genuinely common Naples mistake.

In a hot, sunny patch, suspect chinch bugs first — they're the classic killer of St. Augustine here, and the damage mimics drought. In the rainy season, fungus is the likelier culprit, and watering more makes it worse. Also walk your irrigation zones: one stuck or misaimed head produces a dead stripe months later. Get the problem diagnosed before paying to re-sod, or the new sod dies the same way.

Some of it, yes. Thin heavy canopies and remove dead wood in late spring so limbs shed wind instead of catching it, and clear anything loose that could become a projectile. Skip the 'hurricane cut' on palms — stripping green fronds weakens them, and they're built for wind anyway. And don't generate a debris pile once a storm is named; uncollected trimmings become exactly what you were trying to prevent.