Landscaping, Irrigation & Rock in Tempe, AZ

Tempe ran out of room to grow decades ago. The city is hemmed in on all four sides, and that one fact decides most of what a landscaping crew does here: it is almost never a blank lot waiting for its first yard. It is a yard somebody already built — thirty, forty, fifty years ago — with sprinkler heads still watering grass that is not there anymore, a palm that got tall while nobody was looking, and a strip of dirt behind the block wall that has been on the list for three summers.

Primos Landscaping works Tempe out of Mesa, in English and Spanish, on water, rock, grass, trees and patios. Estimates are free, and we would rather come look at the yard than guess at it over the phone. Send photos on WhatsApp if that is quicker.

Why local knowledge matters in Tempe

Two clocks run in Tempe and both of them matter. One is the ASU calendar — leases around campus end and start inside the same couple of weeks each summer, so a landlord who needs a lot cleared and a lawn looking alive is working in days, not months. The other clock is slow: the original irrigation in the older neighborhoods was laid to push water at lawn, not to drip a plant on a timer, and it fails a little at a time until somebody finally opens the valve box. Put those on lots small enough that a patio and a rock bed set the tone for the entire yard, and the work here has less to do with planting something new than with making an old yard behave the way people actually use it now.

• Landlocked since the 1990s, so nearly every yard is an old one being redone rather than a new one being built
• ASU rentals turn over in a two-week window every summer, and landlords need cleanups and quick lawn fixes on that clock
• Lots are small, so hardscape and rock do more of the work than grass does
• Older neighborhoods still run original irrigation that was never designed for drip

Neighbourhoods we work in: Maple-Ash, Warner Ranch, The Lakes, South Tempe.