Collier Tropical Inc.

About Collier Tropical Inc.

From November into May, Marco Island goes bright and rain-shy, and the yards near Caxambas Pass have to earn their color the hard way. Collier Tropical Inc. works that dry stretch with a steady hand — mowing on schedule, feeding the turf, and keeping the bougainvillea from swallowing a mailbox whole. Palms get their fronds cleared and their trunks tidied, crotons and hibiscus get pinched back into shape, and the beds get mulch deep enough to hold what little water falls. There is real satisfaction in a south-end yard that stays lush through the driest month of the year, when the breeze off the pass is the only thing that feels wet. The name says tropical, and the yards say it back: broad leaves, hot color, and grass cut clean to the edge of the shell drive.