Lawn care in Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park’s century-old oak canopy over brick streets near Park Avenue calls for careful bed and root-zone work built around mature trees, not a quick strip-and-replant.
- From base
- 9 mi from Longwood
- Residents
- 29,795
- County
- Orange
What the yards look like out here
Winter Park’s oldest streets — the brick lanes radiating out from Park Avenue and Rollins College — sit under live oak and camphor canopy that has had close to a century to mature, older and denser than the canopy anywhere else on this list. Homes backing onto the Winter Park Chain of Lakes hold ground that stays wetter than an inland lot, since the lakes were connected by canal originally for flood control rather than scenery, and the area carries a documented history of sinkhole activity in the limestone underneath. That combination means bed work here is about protecting established root systems and drainage, not clearing a lot and starting over, and it is why mulch and irrigation get planned around mature trees rather than open ground.
Distance note
Winter Park sits 9 miles from our Longwood base — close enough to hold a real schedule here, not a route we squeeze in when it happens to be convenient.
Everything we do in Winter Park
- MowingWeekly and biweekly cuts, edged and blown clean every visit.
- Mulch InstallationFresh mulch beds that hold color and block weeds through the season.
- Shrub TrimmingHedges and shrubs shaped clean, not sheared flat.
- Fall & Spring Clean UpBeds, leaves and storm debris cleared before they choke out the lawn.
- Palm Trimming & InstallationDead fronds removed before hurricane season, new palms planted and staked.
- Irrigation System Installation & RepairNew sprinkler systems installed, existing ones diagnosed and fixed.
- New Sod InstallationOld turf stripped out, ground graded flat and new sod laid edge to edge.
- Landscape Design & RenovationBed redesign, replanting and rock or mulch work that resets a tired landscape.
Before hurricane season, the same visit covers the pre-storm walk-through — the canopy over the roofline, dead palm fronds, drainage and loose debris. How storm readiness works.
Nearby areas we cover
Winter Park, Orange County
Lawn care in Winter Park — common questions
Do you work in Winter Park even though it is in Orange County?
Yes. Winter Park is on the Google Business Profile service area and is a normal part of the route — it is why the site does not call itself Seminole-County-only. Same lawn care, palm work and storm clean-up as everywhere else covered.
Winter Park has a lot of mature tree canopy — what storm work do you recommend?
The established neighbourhoods here carry heavy, older canopy, and the walk-through before storm season flags dead or hanging limbs and palm fronds loaded above the roofline. Green fronds stay on — stripping a palm back does not help it in wind and harms the tree. Loose material gets cleared before it can be thrown around.
How often should St. Augustine grass be mowed in Central Florida?
Through the growing season — roughly March into November — St. Augustine grass wants cutting every five to seven days. In the summer rain it can put on two to three inches a week, and the rule that keeps it healthy is to never take off more than a third of the blade in one cut. That is why routine mowing runs weekly in summer and stretches to every other week only in the cooler months when growth slows.
Should palm trees get a "hurricane cut" before storm season?
No. There is no such thing as a hurricane cut. UF/IFAS is clear that stripping a palm back to a few upright fronds does not reduce wind resistance and actively harms the tree — green fronds are how a palm feeds itself, and over-pruning thins the trunk and leaves the growing point exposed. What genuinely helps before a storm is taking off the fronds that are already dead or brown, plus any loose fronds, seed pods or coconuts that could come down in high wind. That is the palm work worth doing.
What days can I water my lawn in Seminole County?
Seminole County runs the year-round schedule: twice a week from March through November, once a week from November through March, and no watering between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on any day. Odd-numbered street addresses water Wednesday and Saturday; even-numbered addresses water Thursday and Sunday. Hand watering with a shut-off nozzle is allowed any time, and newly installed landscape gets a 60-day establishment exception. A few cities layer their own rules on top, so it is worth checking yours.
Free property assessment anywhere in Winter Park.
We walk the yard, tell you what actually needs doing — and what does not — and put a price on it before any work starts.
Area — Winter Park, Orange County, FL · 9 mi from base