Landscaping in Corinth, TX

Established ground, older standards

Corinth sits along the I-35E corridor with a good deal of established residential either side of it. The landscaping consequence is that a lot of properties here were graded to standards that predate current practice.

On soil that absorbs as slowly as North Texas clay does, grade is most of drainage. Where fall was never properly established away from the structure, water has nowhere to go and every heavy spring storm demonstrates it.

That makes re-grading a genuinely common answer here, and frequently a cheaper one than installing pipe. Adding a French drain to a lot whose real problem is fall treats a symptom.

What we most often do here

• Drainage correction and re-grading, especially in the older sections
• Irrigation diagnosis, because system age varies street to street and there is no safe assumption to make
• Lawn care on long-established turf that carries accumulated weed pressure and compaction
• Landscape renovation where planting has outgrown its plan
• Tree and shrub work around established root systems

The clay, briefly

Denton County sits on Blackland Prairie and Grand Prairie clays. They swell when wet, shrink when dry, and drain slowly. North Texas rainfall arrives in long dry spells broken by three inch downpours, so slow-absorbing ground plus fast heavy rain equals water on the surface with nowhere to go.

That single fact explains most recurring yard problems here, and it is why drainage in this market is bought as foundation protection rather than as landscaping.

Two cleanups, not one

Post oaks and live oaks drop leaves in spring as well as autumn. Anyone who moved here from further north tends to budget for one cleanup a year and gets caught out by the second.

The estimate

Free, on your property, and Justin does it himself.