Landscaping in Flowood, Mississippi

LCN Landscaping runs weekly routes through Flowood, Mississippi, from Castlewoods and the Old Fannin Road neighborhoods near the Reservoir to the medical offices and retail along Lakeland Drive. Lawn care, landscape design and planting, paver patios, drainage, tree work and cleanups for homes, and scheduled grounds maintenance for the commercial corridor that makes Flowood one of the busiest addresses in the Jackson metro. Call (601) 994-3380 for a free written estimate.

A little about Flowood

Flowood sits in Rankin County on the east bank of the Pearl River, directly across from Jackson and just south of the Ross Barnett Reservoir spillway. It started as a small town on the river and grew after the Reservoir was completed in the 1960s and Lakeland Drive was built out as the main road from Jackson to the lake. Today Lakeland Drive is a medical and commercial corridor, anchored by hospitals and clinics, restaurants, hotels and the Dogwood Festival Market shopping area, and Flowood's population has passed 10,000 with a daytime population many times that. ZIP codes are 39232 and 39208. Behind the commercial strip are established residential neighborhoods: Castlewoods, the largest, with its golf course and lakes; the Old Fannin Road and Hugh Ward Boulevard areas toward the Reservoir; Grants Ferry Road; and the newer homes off Spillway Road and Flowood Drive. Flowood Nature Park and Winners Circle Park sit along the river bottom.

The river shapes the land. Flowood's lower neighborhoods sit on Pearl River bottomland with sandier, wetter soil and a high water table; the higher ground toward Brandon is the same red clay as the rest of Rankin County. Humidity off the river and the Reservoir is noticeably heavier than in Madison, and the tree cover is thick: pines, oaks, sweetgums and the bald cypress along the water.

What Flowood yards deal with

Water and shade. The bottomland lots hold water after storms and the water table keeps the ground soft long after the rain stops, so drainage that works with the grade, not against it, is essential; a French drain that has no outlet lower than the water table does nothing. The heavy humidity drives fungus in Bermuda and Zoysia lawns in late summer, which shows up as brown patches that are not drought. Mature trees in Castlewoods and along Old Fannin shade out the turf and drop a heavy leaf load from October on. On the commercial side, Lakeland Drive properties are judged every day by thousands of passing cars and by patients walking in, and the grounds have to look right on a fixed schedule.

Weekly lawn care in Flowood

Same day every week, all year: mowing at the right height, edging, trimming, blowing and a property walk. Fertilization and pre-emergent on the warm-season calendar with fungicide when the late-summer humidity calls for it, aeration in late spring and early fall, shade management where the trees have taken over, and scheduled leaf removal through the holidays.

Landscape design and beds in Flowood

Refreshes for the established homes in Castlewoods and off Old Fannin Road, plantings that tolerate wet feet near the river, azaleas, hydrangeas and camellias in the shade the tree cover provides, pine straw beds, and landscape lighting. For commercial properties along Lakeland Drive, low-maintenance designs with clean edges, seasonal color at the entrance, and irrigation that is checked on every visit.

Patios, walls and drainage in Flowood

Paver patios and walkways on a compacted base, retaining walls on the higher lots toward Brandon, and drainage everywhere: catch basins and solid-pipe runs to the street or the storm system for the bottomland lots, French drains where there is a legal low outlet, underground downspout routing, and regrading of side yards. We are honest about what a drain can and cannot do on a high water table and we design around it.

Trees and cleanup in Flowood

Pine and hardwood trimming and removal, canopy thinning to save the lawn, storm cleanup after the summer systems that come up the Pearl River valley, stump grinding and leaf removal.

Commercial landscaping in Flowood

This is a large part of our Flowood work: medical offices and clinics along Lakeland Drive, hotels and restaurants near Dogwood, churches, HOA entrances in Castlewoods, and retail centers. Scheduled visits before business hours, seasonal color, pine straw rotation, irrigation checks, parking-lot island maintenance, monthly invoicing and a certificate of insurance on file.

Neighborhoods we serve in Flowood

Castlewoods, the Old Fannin Road area, Hugh Ward Boulevard, the Lakeland Drive corridor, Flowood Drive, Grants Ferry Road and Spillway Road. ZIP codes 39232 and 39208. Landmarks near our routes: Dogwood Festival Market, the Lakeland Drive medical corridor, Ross Barnett Reservoir, the Pearl River, Flowood Nature Park and Winners Circle Park.

A year of landscaping in Flowood

January and February are for the work you cannot see in summer: pre-emergent goes down before soil temperatures climb through the mid-fifties, ornamental grasses and liriope get cut back, crape myrtles get a light structural prune and not a topping, and dormant-season tree and shrub planting gets the roots established before the heat. March and April are green-up. Lawns in Castlewoods and the Old Fannin Road neighborhoods come out of dormancy, the first mow is set high and lowered over three weeks, beds get their spring pine straw or mulch, and irrigation is turned on and audited head by head. May through August is maintenance season: weekly mowing, feeding on the warm-season schedule, spot weed control, deck height raised in the heat, and a close eye on fungus when the humidity settles in. Late summer is when the pines, sweetgums and cypress along the Pearl River start showing dead wood, which is the time to trim it before a storm does. September and October are the most important months of the year for a Flowood lawn: fall fertilization before dormancy, aeration and overseeding while the soil is still warm, and bed refresh before the leaves come down. November and December are leaf removal, the pre-freeze irrigation check, and the cleanups that get the property looking finished for the holidays. Commercial properties along Lakeland Drive run the same calendar with seasonal color changes at the entrances in spring and fall. If you only do two things a year, do the fall feeding and the fall aeration; they decide what the yard looks like in April.

Before your doors open

For the medical and professional properties along Lakeland Drive we run the grounds early, before patients and staff arrive, and we keep a standing checklist: entrance beds and seasonal color, curb and island edging, parking-lot island health, irrigation heads that spray the sidewalk, and drainage at the building line after a storm. It is the same standard we hold on a Castlewoods home, applied on a commercial clock.

Questions from Flowood homeowners and property managers

My yard stays wet for days. Can it be fixed? Usually, with catch basins and solid pipe to the street. On the lowest lots we will tell you what is realistic.

Brown patches in August: drought or disease? In Flowood it is often fungus from the humidity. We treat it and adjust watering.

Do you maintain medical and office grounds? Yes, on a schedule, before your doors open, with insurance on file.

Can you handle the leaves in Castlewoods? Scheduled removal from October through December is part of weekly service.

How soon can you start? Written estimates go out the same week; service starts the following week.

Get a free estimate — (601) 994-3380

Call or text (601) 994-3380 for a free written estimate. LCN Landscaping is licensed and insured.

Services in Flowood: Lawn care · Landscape design · Hardscape · Drainage and trees. Nearby: Brandon · Ridgeland · Madison