Landscaping Baton Rouge: Design, Renovation and Installation

Landscaping in Baton Rouge That Starts With the Water

A landscape that floods is not finished. Before we talk about plants, we look at where your yard holds water after rain, because beds and sod built on a yard that does not drain look good for one season and fail in the first wet spring. Grade and drainage come first, then irrigation, then everything you actually see.

Hernandez Lawnscape has designed, built and renovated landscapes in Baton Rouge and Livingston Parish since 2013. Owner Gerardo Hernandez walks every assessment, draws the design himself on larger projects, and his crew builds it. There are no hand-offs between the plan and the finished yard.

Residential Landscaping in Baton Rouge

Most of our residential work falls into two kinds of calls. The first is a yard that has a problem: standing water, dead patches, beds that have gone to weeds. The second is a homeowner who is tired of the whole thing and wants it done once, properly: new design, drainage and irrigation underneath, sod, beds, rock, edging and lighting on top.

Both start the same way, with a walk through the yard and an itemized quote so you can see what each part costs. Plants are line items, not a lump sum. We recommend what the yard needs, and when the honest answer is that you do not need something, we say so.

What a Landscape Renovation Includes

• Demo and haul-off of the old beds, sod and edging.
• Grading so the yard falls away from the slab, and drainage where grade alone cannot finish the job.
• Irrigation zoned to the new plan, with beds on drip and lawn on spray.
• Sod chosen for the lot: St. Augustine, Zoysia, Centipede or Bermuda.
• Beds planted for the sun and soil they sit in, mulched and edged.
• Decorative rock, steel or stone edging, and low-voltage lighting as the finish.

On larger renovations the design is included. Gerardo draws it himself in Morpholio Trace, so the plan and the build come from the same set of hands.

What Our Landscaping Customers Get

The clean edge along the driveway, the weeds pulled out of the concrete cracks, the small debris picked up before the truck leaves. Those details are how the company grew from one Denham Springs crew in 2013, and they are still how new customers find us. One early customer noticed the work at a neighbor's house and asked Gerardo over. More than a decade later the same crew maintains that yard, the customer's grandmother's and their parents' too.

Honest Scope, Not Plant Markup

Big landscaping companies lean on heavily marked-up plants. We would rather put the money in the ground where it lasts: the grade, the drainage, the irrigation. Plants are priced as line items so you can compare, and we will tell you which ones will struggle in your yard before you pay for them. Drainage, irrigation and artificial turf are warrantied. Living plants cannot honestly be guaranteed, and we say so upfront.