Gadsden clay, north of the city
Same Red Hills clay as Quincy and Tallahassee: fertile, water holding, prone to compaction and runoff. Beds get broken up and amended so roots can move through them, and grading gets corrected so water leaves rather than collecting against a foundation.
Being slightly further north, Havana sees marginally colder winter lows than the coast does, which matters when somebody wants a tender ornamental. Anything specified here should take a genuine freeze without a blanket over it.
Turf is the standard inland set: St. Augustine on sunny irrigated lots, centipede for lower maintenance, bahia on the acreage, zoysia on premium installs.
A small town on the way north
Havana grew on shade tobacco and reinvented itself around antiques and a walkable downtown. Properties run from small in-town lots with mature planting to real acreage on the roads out of town, plus a steady stream of new residents who chose the drive.
The work splits accordingly. In town it is detail work: crisp edges, tight beds, planting that suits an older house. Out of town it is acreage, frontage and cleanups.
What Havana calls about
Weekly and biweekly maintenance, cleanups and overgrowth resets on properties that have been let go, mulch and pine straw refresh, sod and grading, and paver and brick work on older homes.
New residents renovating an older property are a real share of the landscape install work here, and those projects usually start with drainage and grading before anything gets planted.
