from $160
Monthly landscape maintenance
Mow where there's lawn, blow the gravel clean, trim the native shrubs, weed the DG, pull the fall debris out of the rocks. Tuned for Catalina's USDA 9a calendar — not a generic 'mow and blow.'
Catalina, AZ — north of Oro Valley, south of SaddleBrooke
Eleven years on Catalina-corridor yards.
Complete irrigation, tree trimming, monthly maintenance, gravel work, and the block walls and pavers that hold a desert yard together. One number for the whole stack. Hablamos español.
Edgar Garcia Landscaping
Edgar Garcia Landscaping
Edgar Garcia Landscaping
About Edgar Garcia Landscaping
Eleven years working the Catalina corridor — and the full stack a desert yard needs to stay alive.
I started Edgar Garcia Landscaping in 2014 because the homeowners up here kept calling three different people for the same yard — one guy for the trees, one for the drip lines, one for the block wall that was settling out by the curb. None of them talked to each other, none of them showed up the same week, and nobody really knew the yard.
So I built a crew that does the whole thing. Monthly maintenance and tree work first. Irrigation diagnostics and repair when a zone stops emitting. Decomposed granite, paver patios, block walls, and the fire pits and BBQs that make a Catalina back yard worth sitting in. One number, one crew, one person walking the yard with you.
The SaddleBrooke One residents' association has had us on the approved-contractor list since 2018, with evaluation forms on file every year or two. That's the work I'm proudest of — people in their seventies and eighties who shouldn't have to manage three vendors to keep a yard standing.
We show up bilingual. Hablamos español si lo prefieres.
One number for the whole yard — the irrigation, the tree, the wall, and the fire pit you sit at when it's all done.
— Edgar Garcia, owner
What we do — Catalina + SaddleBrooke + Oro Valley
The whole stack — maintenance first, then everything that holds a desert yard together.
Most Catalina-corridor yards need the same six things over a year. We do all of them so a homeowner doesn't have to chase six different contractors.
- from $110
Complete irrigation — install, repair, redesign
Drip lines, lateral pressure, valve boxes, controllers, anti-siphon assemblies. A sick zone gets a four-point diagnostic walkthrough before we quote — battery, solenoid, lateral pressure, emitter clog.
- from $220
Tree trimming + removal
Mesquite structural pruning in August. Palo verde pulled back before monsoon. Saguaro lean checks. Crown reductions on mature ironwood. Stump removal where needed.
- from $1,200
Gravel + decomposed granite
Fresh DG paths, gravel beds, color-matched to the existing yard. Compacted to hold grade through monsoon runoff. Pre-emergent in the base so weeds don't come back through.
- from Quoted on site
Block walls + paver patios
Retaining walls, garden walls, paver patios, walkway pavers. Built on caliche the right way — proper base, proper compaction. Multi-year SaddleBrooke jobs on file.
- from Quoted on site
BBQs + fire pits
Built-in BBQ islands and gas or wood fire pits — the back-patio centerpieces that make a Sonoran evening worth being outside for. Designed around the existing patio and hardscape.
The irrigation specialty
A sick zone gets a four-point walkthrough before we quote.
Most Catalina-corridor drip systems are between 8 and 18 years old — past the design life of the original valves, controllers, and emitters. When a zone dies, the question is which of four things failed, not whether to rip it out and start over. Edgar Garcia Landscaping walks you through each before quoting a repair.
System lifespan
10–15 yrs
Typical Sonoran drip life before something fails. We rebuild zone-by-zone — full tear-outs are usually the wrong answer.
A typical Catalina back-yard zone: house supply → anti-siphon valve box → ½″ poly lateral underground → branches up to a 3 GPH pressure-compensating emitter at the root zone of each plant. Most failures live somewhere on that line.
The four-point walkthrough
Controller battery + program
First thing we check on a dead zone — a battery-powered controller in the valve box that ran out of juice will mimic every other failure mode. Replace it, re-program, run the zone, see if it lives.
Valve solenoid + diaphragm
If the controller is calling and the valve isn’t opening, the solenoid coil or the diaphragm is the next stop. Both are field-replaceable. Most desert valve boxes we open have a corroded solenoid wire splice that’s been sitting in monsoon mud for years.
Lateral-line pressure
A zone that opens but barely emits is usually a lateral leak — ½-inch poly chewed by a javelina, cracked by a root, or pulled apart at a tee. We isolate by section, cap, and read pressure at the far end.
Emitter clog or failure
Sonoran groundwater calcifies pressure-compensating emitters over a 10–15 year life. If the lateral is fine but a single plant is dying, we pull the emitter, flush the barb, and replace it with a 3 GPH PC — usually a $4 fix, no re-trenching.
Most repairs land at step three or four — a leak in the lateral or a calcified emitter. Either is a same-visit fix, not a redesign.
The native-tree calendar
Saguaro, palo verde, mesquite — on a real calendar.
The Catalina corridor sits in USDA 9a. The natives have a rhythm — when to prune, when to watch for borer, when to stake a leaning saguaro, when to cover the citrus. Edgar Garcia Landscaping works that rhythm so your yard isn’t reacting to August.
USDA zone
9a
Catalina + SaddleBrooke sit at ~3,000 ft. Real winter nights, full-stack monsoon summers, January citrus freezes worth planning for.
January
JanSaguaro lean check
After winter rains soften the soil, mature saguaros can start to lean. Walk every tall one and stake if the lean is more than a few degrees.
February
FebCitrus + freeze damage clean-up
Prune frost-burned citrus tips and dead wood. Ironwood structural cuts also land here while sap is still down.
March
MarPre-emergent + DG refresh
Pre-emergent in the gravel before spring weeds break ground. Top-dress DG paths and beds that have washed.
April
AprPalo verde bloom + pollen sweep
Palo verdes flower yellow across the corridor. Blow patios and pool decks weekly through bloom. Light shaping cuts on young trees.
May
MayPre-monsoon structural prune
Pull mesquite and palo verde back off the roof. Thin canopies so the August wind passes through, not against. The single biggest storm-damage preventer.
June
JunDrip system pre-monsoon check
Controller battery, valve seals, lateral pressure. Better to find a stuck-open valve in June than after the first storm trips it.
July
JulPalo verde root-borer watch
The big brown beetles emerge after the first heavy rain. Watch the soil at the base of mature palo verdes — frass and exit holes mean infestation.
August
AugMesquite structural prune
August is the canonical mesquite prune window — sap is up, wounds close quickly. Structural cuts on mature trees, not topping. Storm cleanup on the side.
September
SepPost-monsoon yard reset
Re-grade DG washouts, replace broken emitters that came off in the rain, clean out the gravel beds, haul off the limbs that didn’t make it.
October
OctIronwood crown reduction
Cooler nights, lower stress on the tree. Mature ironwoods get structural reductions to keep weight off horizontal limbs.
November
NovAgave bloom watch + fall clean
Century agaves send up bloom stalks and then die — plan replacements early. Leaf and seed-pod sweep across the route.
December
DecCitrus freeze prep
Cover young citrus on nights forecast below 32°F. Soil-soak before a freeze — wet roots survive better than dry. Christmas-light hanging on the side, if you ask.
Monthly maintenance customers get the calendar built into the schedule — we show up for the May pre-monsoon prune and the August structural cut without you having to call. Ad-hoc work, just ring us when the month lines up with what your yard needs.
How a job goes
Plain steps. Bilingual at every one.
- 01
Call or text
Tell us the address and what you're looking at. A photo by text saves a visit if it's a clear emitter clog or a downed limb.
- 02
Walkthrough
We come out, walk the whole yard — irrigation, trees, hardscape — and ask the questions that change the price. Free, no pressure.
- 03
Real estimate
Plain estimate texted same day or next morning. Line items, not a lump. En inglés o en español — lo que prefieras.
- 04
Scheduled work
We pick a morning. Most non-emergency jobs land within the week. Existing maintenance customers get priority during monsoon.
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Walk it together at the end
We don't leave until the yard's clean, the haul-off is on the truck, and you've signed off on the work.
That’s it. No portals, no logins — a phone call or an email is all it takes.
What customers say
Eleven years, Yelp, Nextdoor, and a SaddleBrooke One approved list that goes back to 2018.
Edgar's crew showed up exactly when he said they would. He was on top of every part of the project — irrigation, the new gravel bed, and the block wall along the side. Easy to work with from start to finish.
We had two zones that quit emitting and one valve that was stuck open. Edgar walked through each one — checked the controller battery first, then the solenoid, then the lateral — and had it all working that afternoon. Fair price.
- Nextdoor
Removed an old concrete driveway and put in pavers, redid the underground drainage at the same time. The new yard handles monsoon runoff like the old one never did. Crew was friendly, hardworking, and the cost was very reasonable.
Trimmed the mesquite and palo verde out front before monsoon — pulled them back off the roof and thinned the canopy so the wind goes through. First August in years where we didn't lose a limb.
He built a fire pit and BBQ island on our back patio. The work is clean, the lines are straight, and it looks like it's been there from day one. Worth the wait for the right crew.
Honesto, puntual, y el trabajo bien hecho. Edgar habla con uno como una persona — no como un vendedor. Lo recomendamos a los vecinos.
Recent work — Catalina corridor
A few from the route.
Catalina — saguaro + xeriscape front 
Oro Valley — front yard maintenance 
Foothills — mature mesquite crown reduction 
SaddleBrooke — DG path + native border 
Catalina — full front-yard refresh 
Oro Valley — agave bed refresh 
Catalina — succulent + bark bed 
Marana — gravel + native bed install
Honest pricing
Monthly maintenance from$160/month
Standard monthly visits start at $160 depending on yard size. Irrigation diagnostics start at $110 — the four-point walkthrough is included before we quote a repair. Tree trims start at $220. Hardscape work — block walls, pavers, BBQs, fire pits — quoted on site after we walk the yard with you.
Free walkthroughs anywhere in the regular service area. Cash, check, Venmo, or card.
Call (520) 310-1330Questions — Edgar Garcia Landscaping
Plain answers.
Yes. We've been on the SaddleBrooke One ALC-approved contractor list since 2018, with evaluation forms on file every year or two for landscaping, pavers, and wall work.
Call or text Edgar
— Edgar Garcia Landscaping
One number for the whole yard — irrigation, trees, gravel, walls, fire pit. Catalina, AZ. Hablamos español.