Walker Landscape

About Walker Landscape

Summerland Key lies low in the Lower Keys, a strip of coral rock and mangrove strung along the Overseas Highway with open water on every side. Soil is scarce here and salt rides every breeze, so whatever green a yard holds is green someone has fought for. Walker Landscape works along the canals that cut through the island, where coconut palms, sea grape and buttonwood bend to the trade winds. The job is a Keys kind of care: trimming back what the sun pushes out, clearing fronds after a blow, cutting the patch of lawn that has to earn every inch. At dusk, when the canal water turns ripe-mango orange and the wind lays down, a tended yard on Summerland becomes the island's own small garden.