Paver patios + walkways
Basket-weave, herringbone, or running-bond paver installs over a properly prepped base — compacted DG, polymeric sand, edge restraint. Drains right after a desert storm.
Lake Havasu City, AZ — Mohave County, Colorado River
Block walls, paver patios, palms — and the worries left at the curb.
Family-run since 2010 — a soft-scape + hard-scape generalist working Lake Havasu City and the Colorado River side of Mohave County. Steve answers the phone; the same crew shows up Tuesday.
Worry Free Landscaping
Worry Free Landscaping
Worry Free Landscaping
About Worry Free
Started as The Tree Factory. Grew up in Lake Havasu.
Before this was Worry Free Landscaping, it was The Tree Factory — Steve's grandmother's outfit, running yards in Lake Havasu for years. When she retired in 2010, Steve took it over, renamed it, and kept the route.
Fifteen years on, it's still the same idea. A small family crew. A truck most of Havasu can pick out by sight. Block walls and paver patios when somebody wants a real backyard. Palm trimming and skinning every winter. Rock haul-offs and yard cleanouts when a property gets ahead of someone — especially the snowbird houses that sit empty May through September.
The name is the pitch. You leave for Wisconsin, or Oregon, or wherever home is in summer. Steve keeps an eye on the yard. The palms get cut in November. The pavers stay swept. The block wall doesn't crack and surprise you in October.
Leave your worries to us.
— Steve, owner
What we do — Havasu yards
Hard-scape, palm work, and the rock that holds it together.
Six things, done well in 115° heat — and a snowbird absence package that keeps the yard standing while you're up north.
Block walls
CMU privacy walls, retaining walls, and planter walls. Stucco-finish or split-face. Built to footing depth, rebar where the code says, capped clean.
Palm trimming + skinning
Mexican fan palms and queen palms — full frond clean, seed pod removal, cigar-cut skinning when you want the formal look. Booked heaviest November through February.
Rock hauling
Decomposed granite, river rock, lava rock — delivered, spread, raked, and edged. The hard part is the haul; we own the truck and the time.
Yard cleanouts
Overgrown lots, foreclosure cleanouts, post-tenant yards. Everything goes — dead palm fronds, broken irrigation, the old cracked planter the last guys never finished.
Snowbird absence service
You head north May through September. We run a monthly walk-through, trim what's growing, water-check the irrigation, sweep the pavers, send a short text + photos so you know the house looks lived-in.
Hardscape — what's under the surface
The build, not the brochure.
Three of the most-built jobs in Lake Havasu, cut open and labeled. The reason a paver patio fails after one storm season is almost always the four inches of compacted base that nobody photographs. We photograph it anyway.
Cross-section
Paver patio
Herringbone over a base that drains.
Edge restraint at the perimeter, plate-compacted in two passes. Polymeric sand locks the joints so the storm runoff doesn't lift the field.
Cross-section
CMU privacy wall
6-foot block, stucco-finished, footed to code.
Rebar runs every 32" vertically, tied to the footing. Cells grouted solid. Stucco scratch + brown + finish coats; iron-oxide tint matched to the house.
Cross-section
Retaining wall
Stepped block, drainage gravel, weep at the toe.
A retaining wall fails because water builds up behind it. Drainage gravel + a weep line at the toe is the whole game. We backfill in lifts, compact each lift, and don't skip the perforated pipe.
Heights labeled in inches. Every Worry Free hardscape job gets the layers built right — even when the homeowner can't see them after the install.
Palm work — when to call
The Havasu palm calendar.
Mexican fan palms and queen palms have a season on the river. Trim them in the wrong month and you stress the tree (or your crew). Here’s the year, plainly — when we book the heavy palm days and when we don’t.
Month 01
Jan
Best window — palms dormant. Full trim + cigar-cut skinning.
Month 02
Feb
Last clean week before spring flush. Booked solid most years.
Month 03
Mar
New fronds emerging — light cleanup, seed-pod pull only.
Month 04
Apr
Spring flush in full swing. Wait for fronds to fill if you can.
Month 05
May
Snowbird departure month — quick tidy-up before the heat.
Month 06
Jun
Skinning OK in 6–9 AM window. No full crown work.
Month 07
Jul
115° on the river — emergency storm work only.
Month 08
Aug
Monsoon broken-frond removal as needed.
Month 09
Sep
Heat lingers. Early-AM skinning resumes.
Month 10
Oct
Snowbirds returning — pre-arrival trim batch begins.
Month 11
Nov
Best window starts. Full trim + skinning calendar opens.
Month 12
Dec
Cool, dry, dormant. Heaviest scheduled month of the year.
Dormant — best
Spring flush
Heat — early AM
Shoulder
Best advice for Havasu palms: batch the heavy trim in November or December. The fronds are clean, the seed pods drop off easy, and the cigar-cut skin stays sharp through the first 110° week of summer. If storm fronds break in August, call anyway — we work through the heat for that.
How it works
A short, plain process — no quote-form runaround.
- 01
Call or text
Tell us the address and what you want done. A photo by text speeds it up.
- 02
Walkthrough
Steve drives out and walks the yard with you. We measure for hard-scape on the spot.
- 03
Written estimate
A real number, broken out by line — pavers, base, edge, sand, labor. No surprise add-ons later.
- 04
Scheduled build
We pick a window with you. Hard-scape builds run 3–7 days; palm trim days are scheduled in batches Nov–Feb.
- 05
Walkthrough + invoice
We don't leave until you're standing on the patio nodding. Cash, check, Venmo, or card.
That’s it. No portals, no logins — a phone call or an email is all it takes.
Originally The Tree Factory, Steve’s grandmother’s business. When she retired in 2010, Steve took it over, renamed it Worry Free Landscaping, and kept the route. Same number she had.
The promise — what worry-free actually means
Three things, written down so you can hold us to them.
“Leave your worries to us” is the line on the truck. Every landscaper claims some version of that, so here’s what it actually means at Worry Free.
Promise 01
Predictable scheduling
When we say Tuesday morning, we are there Tuesday morning. Hardscape builds carry a written window; monthly rotations carry a fixed day of the month.
Promise 02
Snowbird-friendly absence service
You head north May through September. We run the yard on a monthly rotation, send photos with each visit, and the house comes back to you the way you left it.
Promise 03
Fixed pricing, written
You get the number before we touch the yard. Paver patios, block walls, palm rotations — all priced on-site after a walkthrough. No surprise add-ons at invoice.
“Same number my grandmother had. Same idea — leave the worries to us.”
— Steve, owner · call (928) 230-6513
Reviews — Lake Havasu City, AZ
Fifteen years of word-of-mouth on the lake.
- Yelp
Steve at Worry Free is the guy you need to call for your yard's soft scape and hard scape needs. Honest, fair, and he picks up the phone.
- Yelp
I called for a sprinkler valve replacement and got an instant response. Quote that same day, work done by week's end. Professional and excellent.
- Nextdoor
Steve always does a great job and offers suggestions on the next project. We're loyal customers — he's the best for yard care in town.
Snowbirded back in October to a yard that looked like we never left. Palms cut, pavers swept, drip lines working. Texts and photos all summer. Worth every dollar.
Worry Free built our paver patio and a CMU privacy wall in the same week. Crew was tidy, the wall is straight, and the pavers haven't shifted through two summers.
Steve hauled out three dump-truck loads of old river rock and re-laid the front in DG. Showed up on time, finished a day early. Easy to deal with.
Recent work — Lake Havasu City
A few jobs from the last couple of seasons.
North Havasu — palm skin + front-yard refresh Foothills — curved paver patio + low seat wall South Havasu — CMU retaining + stucco finish 
Lakeside — palm trim + rock haul-in 
Mid-Havasu — snowbird absence rotation 
Riverside — paver patio (after) 
Havasu Heights — block wall + planter combo 
Sara Park — paver walk + palm pair Havasu hillside — terraced retaining build 
Havasu — agave + DG bed refresh
Honest pricing
Paver patios from$14/sq ft installed
Hard-scape installs are quoted on-site after a measure. Paver patios start at $14/sq ft installed with proper base + polymeric sand. Block walls from $48/linear foot. Palm trim from $85/tree. Snowbird absence rotation from $140/month. We tell you the number before we touch the yard.
Free walkthroughs anywhere in Mohave County and Parker (La Paz).
Call (928) 230-6513Recent work — Lake Havasu City
Before and after.
Two from the last twelve months — a tired front yard turned to compacted DG with two new palms, and a back yard that became a herringbone paver patio with a low CMU seat wall.
BeforeAfter
Bare dirt and a half-dead bottle palm in front. We hauled in five tons of DG, set two Mexican fan palms with proper root-flare depth, and ran a drip line off the existing valve. Owner is on the snowbird rotation now.
BeforeAfter
Cracked concrete slab pulled, sub-base regraded for lake-storm drainage, herringbone pavers laid with polymeric sand, and a 14-inch CMU seat wall finished in stucco around the south edge. Five working days, on schedule.
Questions — Worry Free Landscaping
Plain answers, no runaround.
Both. Hardscape and palm work pay the bills, but we run a monthly maintenance route — especially for snowbird houses where we're already checking the yard. No minimum.
Call or text Steve
— Worry Free Landscaping
If we're on a build we'll call back the same day. Lake Havasu City, AZ — Mohave County.