BARRETT LANDSCAPE

About BARRETT LANDSCAPE

On a July afternoon in Tiger Point the thunderheads over Pensacola Bay grow tall enough to see from every driveway on the street, and the whole peninsula starts watching the sky. BARRETT LANDSCAPE works ahead of that clock — mowing, edging and trimming laid out so a property is finished and blown clean before the first fat drops hit the pavement. The rain that follows is half the reason things grow so fast here, and the route comes back around before the grass can get away. Beyond the cut there is the slower work: hedges brought back to shape, mulch refreshed in the beds, plantings kept in scale with the house and the oaks around it. Come the cool months the pace lets up and the shaping and cleanup work carries the season. Landscape work on this stretch of coast is a conversation with the weather, and the result should look like the calm side of it.