Where we work

Landscaping in North Charleston.

This is where we are based, which has a practical consequence for you rather than a sentimental one: we are already here. Shorter drive, tighter route, and the flexibility to come back the same week when something needs doing again.

Area
North Charleston, SC

Based
North Charleston, SC

You hear back
The day you call

Local conditions

Full sun, mixed lots, and the pests that come with both

North Charleston does not have one type of property the way Mount Pleasant more or less does. Park Circle bungalows on small established lots, ranches from the sixties and seventies with real yards, and newer builds further out. Each wants a different answer.

What a lot of it shares is open sun. Less of the continuous live oak canopy that shades James Island and old West Ashley, which is good news for grass choice. In full sun bermuda and zoysia both do well, and centipede stops being the default answer just because it is cheap.

Full sun and sandy soil also means the two Lowcountry pests show up in force. Mole crickets tunnel through sandy soil and turn firm turf spongy underfoot, and they work from Charleston right down the coast. Chinch bugs go after St. Augustine and centipede every summer and leave irregular dead patches that look exactly like drought stress, which is why people water them and make it worse.

If a patch of your lawn died in July and watering it did nothing, that is worth saying when you call. It changes the diagnosis and it changes the quote.

Grass that works here
Bermuda and zoysia both do well in the open sun here. Centipede works and asks less of you, but it is slow to recover from wear, so a busy yard is better in zoysia.

Before, and after

Drag it across.

A Lowcountry property before Palmetto Landscape started work The same property after the work was finished Before After

Lawn careThe same property, weeks apart.

Same spot, same angle, different day. Every job on this site is photographed before we quote it and again when we finish.


Straight answers

What people in North Charleston actually ask us.

A patch died in summer and watering did not help.

Then it probably is not drought. Chinch bugs leave irregular dead patches in St. Augustine and centipede that look identical to dry stress, and watering them makes the damage worse. Tell us when it died and how it spread and we can usually tell which it is.

My lawn feels spongy when I walk on it.

Mole crickets, most likely. They tunnel through sandy soil and lift the turf off its roots. It is a pest problem, not a mowing problem, and sod laid over it just feeds them.

Are you cheaper because you are based here?

Effectively, yes. Drive time is real cost, and the closer and denser the route the less of it there is to cover. If we already cut on your street it shows up in your number.

Get your number

Tell us the North Charleston address.

You get a real figure the same day, and we will tell you what is driving it. If your property needs more than we quoted, you hear that before anyone starts, not after.

What we do here

Every service, in North Charleston.

We also work in Mount Pleasant · James Island · West Ashley · Johns Island.