Lawn care
Mow, edge, trim, blow, same day each week. Beds kept up while we are there if you want. A short list of yards, each one looked at, not just cut.
from $45 per visit
Get a weekly priceWeekly lawn care, flower beds and backyard projects in Athens, Alabama. A father and son, not a crew. Text us and one of us answers.
Based in Athens. Serving Limestone County and the west side of Madison County.
Most weeks it is mowing and beds. Some weeks it is a pond or a patio. And when a yard holds water, we know where it needs to go.
Mow, edge, trim, blow, same day each week. Beds kept up while we are there if you want. A short list of yards, each one looked at, not just cut.
from $45 per visit
Get a weekly pricePull what the builder put in and what died, fix the clay, plant things that like it here, edge and mulch. The front of the house looks like somebody lives there.
from $450
Redo the bedsKoi ponds and waterfalls are the specialty. Patios, fire pits, seat walls and small structures come with them. Chris built his own backyard this way. He can build yours.
from $3,500
Plan the backyardNew lots here are red clay with the topsoil scraped off, graded for the house and not the yard. Rain runs to the lowest corner and sits for days. A downspout extension, a swale or a French drain gives it somewhere to go. Chris has moved a lot of water building ponds. This is the same work in reverse.
from $1,500
Pick your lot size and what you need. The numbers are ranges. Send it and we will text you a firm price after we take a look.
Ranges assume a typical standard lot in Limestone County. We confirm the exact number after a quick visit, no obligation.
We are better at doing the work than photographing it. The best thing we can show you right now is Chris's own backyard, the pond and the waterfall, which is where this all started. Text us and we will send pictures of that and of recent yards.
Text for photosStarting prices for a typical lot in Athens. Every job gets a firm number after we see it, and you will know it before we start.
Most of our customers are here. Month to month, no contract.
from $45
per visit, weekly in season
Mow, edge, trim, blow. Same day each week.
Best for: Keeping up with the HOA
Start with this onefrom $220
per month, in season
The weekly cut plus the beds, so the whole front looks kept.
Best for: A yard that looks good without thinking about it
Start with this onefrom $250
spring and fall
Leaves, beds, trimming and mulch, once or twice a year.
Best for: Yards you mow yourself
Start with this oneOne-time projects. We come look, draw it if it helps, and give you one number.
from $450
Pull what is tired, fix the soil, replant, edge and mulch.
Best for: The front of the house
Start with this onefrom $3,500
A pondless waterfall to start, or a full koi pond.
Best for: Backyards you want to sit in
Start with this onefrom $4,000
Pavers or flagstone on a proper base, with somewhere to sit.
Best for: Friday nights in October
Start with this one

Chris Whitt's father laid brick across North Alabama, and Chris learned the trade at his elbow: how to set a line, check it, and check it again before the mortar sets. He went on to teach school and coach in Athens for a long time, and the whole time he kept building. He helped build his own house and his family's. He built a sauna. He turned his backyard into a koi pond, a waterfall and a place to sit at the end of the day, and people who see it ask who did it.
When he retired, the yard work he had been doing on the side became the job. Most weeks that means mowing and keeping up a short list of yards around Athens. Some weeks it means a new flower bed, a pond, or a patio. Whatever it is, he reads up on it first and does it the slow way once, so nobody has to do it twice.
Blake came home to Athens this year and started working alongside him. It is the two of us, not a crew. When you text, one of us answers. When we show up, it is the two of us in your yard.
If you are in or around Athens, we would like to take care of your yard.
Most of our work has come by word of mouth, which does not show up on a website. If we have worked on your yard, a review helps the next family in your neighborhood find us. If we have not yet, read what is there and decide for yourself.
Four things, done by two people who live here.
Based in Athens. The closer you are, the easier it is for us to say yes. Outside the ring, text us and we will tell you straight.
Towns in bold have their own page: Athens, Madison, Harvest and Decatur. We also work in Elkmont, Ardmore, Tanner and Mooresville.
Chris and Blake. We do not send a crew you have never met. If you text, one of us answers.
Both. Mowing is month to month. Beds, cleanups, ponds, patios and drainage are one-time projects with a price you approve first.
Text is best. You will usually hear back the same day. For project quotes we come look, usually within a week.
Common, but not normal. Most of Limestone County is red clay, and new lots have had the topsoil scraped off and the clay packed down. Water collects along the fence, the foundation or the back corner. A downspout extension, a swale or a French drain usually fixes it in a day or two.
Shrubs and trees go in best in the fall. Bermuda and zoysia sod from April through September. Fescue seed in late September and October. Pre-emergent for crabgrass needs to be down by mid-February.
Yes. Text a photo and your town for a ballpark. For anything bigger than mowing we come look and text you a firm number.
A picture of the lawn, the bed or the wet corner is enough to get a ballpark back. No forms, no sales call.