Summer Splendor Landscaping

About Summer Splendor Landscaping

By June the crape myrtles around Hermann Park are throwing color for months at a stretch, and half of Houston takes its cue from them. Summer Splendor Landscaping brings that same idea to yards across the Museum District, Rice Village and the streets between — beds planted for the long warm season, shrubs shaped so they hold form through the heat, mulch laid to keep roots cool when the pavement stops giving anything back. Mowing and edging are the frame around it; the planting is the picture. What makes the work worth doing is the moment a bed fills in and a plain front yard suddenly reads as somewhere on purpose. Even in the flat white glare of a Houston July, a well-kept lawn with color at its edges looks like relief.