Serving Hampton Roads
(504) 505-0181
Hands On
Lawn Care · Hampton Roads
Built in New Orleans · Rooted in Hampton Roads

The same grind that survived Katrina — now in your yard.

Hands On Lawn Care is Phillip Taylor's craft. Lawn care, flower beds, hedges, seasonal cleanups — done with the discipline of a man who rebuilt his life from the ground up. Twice.

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15+
Years hands-in-dirt
100%
Owner-operated
7 days
Answers the phone
Hands cupping fresh soil and grass
"Dirt under the nails.
Care in the details."
— Phillip Taylor, Founder
Weekly Mowing/Flower Beds/Hedge Shaping/Mulch & Edging/Seasonal Cleanup
01 — What we do

A yard is a first impression. We treat it like one.

Every service is done by hand, on time, and finished the way it would be if it were Phillip's own house on the block.

Lawn Care

Weekly and bi-weekly mowing, sharp edges, clean lines. Bagged or mulched — your call.

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Flower Management

Bed design, seasonal planting, weeding, deadheading. Blooms that last the whole season.

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Landscaping

Hedges shaped, trees trimmed, mulch laid, borders defined. The full transformation.

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Cleanups

Spring wake-ups, fall leaf hauls, storm recovery. We show up when the yard needs it most.

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Phillip Taylor, founder of Hands On Lawn Care
02 — Origin

Some of y'all know what it took to get here.

Phillip Taylor was born in New Orleans. Grew up hard — the kind of hard some folks around here today lived through too but don't talk about at the dinner party. Weekends that weren't safe. A childhood that took things from him that nobody's supposed to lose.

Then Katrina came. Took the roof, the block, the version of his life he'd built up piece by piece. Most people in his shoes never got back up. Phillip did. He came east, put his hands in Virginia soil, and started building something nobody could take from him again.

"I know what it feels like to lose everything. That's why I don't cut corners on nobody's yard. If I'm on your property, I'm treating it like it's the only thing I've got."

If you grew up somewhere that made you tough — and now you're in a house you're proud of, in a neighborhood you worked twenty years to reach — Hands On is built for you. Same grind. Same story. Different chapter.

03 — The work

Straight lines. Sharp edges. No excuses.

Freshly mowed lawn with clean stripes
"Best cut my lawn ever had. And he showed up in the rain."
— Homeowner, Ghent · Hampton Roads
Neighborhoods we serve
Ghent · Broad Creek · Larchmont · Downtown · Ocean View · Chesapeake · Virginia Beach
04 — Get in touch

Pick up the phone. Phillip picks up back.

Fastest way to get a quote is a call. Prefer to type? Drop your info and we'll be in touch within 24 hours.

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