Stix and Stones Landscaping

About Stix and Stones Landscaping

Dig anywhere around Flagstaff and the ground tells on itself — black cinder, red scoria, a chunk of lava the color of an old stove, all of it thrown here by the cones out past Sunset Crater. Grass on soil like that has to be coaxed: mowed at the right height, aerated, overseeded, watered on a schedule that respects a dry June. Stix and Stones Landscaping does that coaxing, along with the trimming, the edging and the cleanups that pull a winter's worth of needles and grit back off a yard. The best hour is the morning after a monsoon storm, when the cinder is dark with rain and everything green has doubled overnight. Yards from Timberline and Doney Park out through Winona all get the same pass.