A local lawn service for the whole of Bastrop — from historic downtown to the Lost Pines, we keep lawns and landscapes looking their best.
Bastrop is one of the oldest towns in Texas. Its historic downtown, laid out in the 1830s, holds one of the state's richest collections of 19th-century buildings — protected today as a National Register historic district.
From the heavy clay in the older neighborhoods to the sandy, pine-shaded lots out toward the river, Bastrop Landscapes knows what local yards need — and we're right around the corner when you need us.
Clean, even cuts on a schedule that keeps your Bermuda grass healthy through the Texas heat.
Custom beds, hardscape and native plantings built for Bastrop soil.
Crisp lines along driveways, sidewalks, beds and fence lines.
Clearing overgrowth and shaping trees to keep your property safe and open.
The right feeding after winter to bring your lawn back thick and green.
Spring and fall cleanups that keep your yard healthy and tidy year-round.
We're not a franchise routing trucks through town — we're a local landscaping company. We live and work here, so we understand what Bastrop lawns actually need, from the heavy clay in the older neighborhoods to the newer developments out toward the river. We show up when we say we will, we communicate with you directly (no call center), and we take pride in a yard that makes your home look its best. When you want a Bastrop landscaper who actually knows these lawns, we're right around the corner.
We proudly mow and maintain lawns throughout Bastrop and the surrounding neighborhoods — including The Colony, Colovista, and Tahitian Village — plus nearby Smithville, Cedar Creek, Red Rock, Paige, and Rosanky.
During peak growing season (spring through early fall), most Bastrop lawns do best with weekly mowing. As growth slows in late fall and winter, every other week is usually plenty. We'll set a schedule that fits your yard.
Both. Beyond mowing, we're a full-service Bastrop landscaping company — edging, fertilizing, trimming, and seasonal cleanups are all part of what we do.
Both. Whether you want a reliable recurring schedule or a one-time cleanup to get things back under control, we've got you covered.
We're based in Bastrop (78602) and serve the city plus Smithville, Cedar Creek, Red Rock, Paige, and Rosanky.
Call or text us at (512) 360-8281, or request a quote online — we'll get you a fast, straightforward price.
The honest answer is that it changes three or four times a year, and most people pay for a schedule that ignores that. Warm-season grasses here run hard from spring through early autumn and then stop almost entirely. A fixed weekly contract through December is money spent cutting grass that is not growing.
| Period | Typical cadence | What is going on |
|---|---|---|
| Early spring | Every 10–14 days | Green-up is uneven. Growth is starting but patchy, and cutting too hard now sets the lawn back. |
| Late spring to midsummer | Weekly | Peak growth. This is the stretch where skipping a week means scalping the next one. |
| Late summer | Weekly to every 10 days | Heat and dry spells slow things down. Cutting on a rigid weekly schedule through a drought does more harm than good. |
| Autumn into dormancy | Every 2–3 weeks, tapering | Growth falls away. Visits shift toward needle and leaf clearing rather than cutting. |
We would rather drop a visit in a dry August and tell you why than turn up and take a quarter inch off a stressed lawn to justify the stop.
More lawns in this county are damaged by being cut too short than by anything else. Height is not cosmetic — it decides how deep the roots go, how much moisture the soil holds, and whether weeds get the light they need to establish.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension's published guidance for the two grasses we see most here:
| Grass | Recommended height | In practice here |
|---|---|---|
| St. Augustine | 2–4 inches | The common grass under Lost Pines shade. Keep it at the taller end — height is how it competes for light it is already short of. |
| Bermuda | 1–2 inches with a rotary mower | Full-sun lots. Takes a close cut and real traffic, but needs mowing more often to stay there. |
AgriLife puts it plainly: avoid removing more than one third of the total green canopy height at any one time. If you are keeping St. Augustine at 3 inches, it should be cut by the time it reaches about 4½.
Breaking that rule is scalping. The grass dumps energy into regrowing leaf instead of root, browns off, and opens gaps that weeds move into. It is also why a lawn left for three weeks and then cut to its usual height looks terrible for a fortnight afterwards — the damage was the single hard cut, not the waiting.
Inside the City of Bastrop, sprinkler irrigation is prohibited between 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. year round. That is a real constraint on how much water a lawn can get, which makes cutting height more important, not less. Taller grass shades its own soil, holds moisture longer and roots deeper. On the sandy soils here — which drain fast and hold little — mowing high is one of the cheapest drought defences available.
Square footage is the starting point, not the answer. What actually moves a mowing quote:
For most residential properties we can quote mowing from the address and lot size without visiting. Acreage and pasture work is a different machine and a different schedule and usually gets walked first.
Three things we see constantly in Bastrop that no mowing schedule corrects:
We will tell you which of those you have. We serve Bastrop, Smithville, Cedar Creek, Red Rock, Paige, Rosanky and the rest of Bastrop County.
Bastrop's long, hot growing season means your grass hardly stops — from spring green-up all the way into fall. A reliable weekly or bi-weekly lawn mowing service keeps your yard sharp without you fighting the Central Texas heat every weekend.
We mow at the right height for your turf — a little taller for St. Augustine in summer to protect the roots and shade out weeds, tighter for Bermuda and Zoysia — and every visit includes clean edging along walks and drives plus a full blow-down so nothing's left behind. In peak summer that usually means weekly; as growth slows in fall, bi-weekly keeps it looking great.
Weekly or bi-weekly — which do I need?
In the May–September growth peak, weekly keeps St. Augustine and Bermuda looking their best; bi-weekly is usually fine in spring and fall. We'll recommend what fits your lawn.
What's included in a mow?
Mowing at the correct height, edging along walks and driveways, string-trimming, and blowing off all hard surfaces — a complete, tidy finish every visit.
New customers: $25 off your first mow. Locally owned, fully insured — quotes usually same day.
Tell us about your project — we’ll get back to you, usually the same day.
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