Landscaping Information

Helpful Resources for All Residents:
Riverwood Landscape Community-Wide Standards
Suggested Tree/Palm/Shrub/Plant List
Best Management Practices for Your Lawn-Irrigation
Plants to use with CAUTION & Plants to AVOID

If your home is in a self-maintained neighborhood, as a homeowner you are responsible for maintaining your turf and landscaping in a healthy and attractive manner. Your realtor, the previous owner, or your neighbors can assist you with finding a landscape maintenance company. Bay Ridge, Eagle Trace, Fairway Lakes, Riverside, Silver Lakes

If your home is in an incorporated neighborhood, i.e. condos or villas, it is the responsibility of your neighborhood management company to contract landscape maintenance services for the neighborhood. Grand Vista, Marlin Cove, Myakka Pointe Villas, Oyster Bay, Pompano Cove, Stillwater Trace, Tarpon Harbor I, Tarpon Harbor II, The Reserve, Willow Glen

If your home is in one of the 14 neighborhoods listed in the RCA Maintained Neighborhood Monthly Calendar area, the RCA has contracted for landscape services for your neighborhood with Brightview Landscaping. This cost is included in the neighborhood fee portion of your HOA quarterly fees. Please understand that the Brightview crew members are not personal gardeners.

Briefly, these services include:

Please check your neighborhood calendar for the lawn mowing schedule.
Hard edging of all sidewalks, curbs and other paved surfaces; soft edging to define bed edges, as needed.
Pruning and trimming of shrubs, palms and ornamental trees as needed to maintain a healthy and attractive landscape appearance.
Fertilization of turf, trees, shrubs and palms.
Turf and plant disease control as needed.
Weed control in paved surfaces, turf weeds and in plant beds.
Once a year mulch application.
Irrigation maintenance to include monthly wet checks and replacement as needed of Brightview covered items.

For details and explanations of all the above services see the Brightview contract or a summary of services. These documents are located below.

If you have already set-up a BrightView account, click here

If you have never used the BrightView online work order system for service requests, please set up your account on Brightview HOA-Connect. To register, click here. For a step-by-step tutorial, click here.

BrightView Documents:

Brightview Contract with Two Amendments

For irrigation emergency service, please be advised there is a service charge and any costs, if parts are needed. Your irrigation system belongs to you, the resident. Responsibility belongs with the homeowner to keep the system in good repair. If a covered component is found to be damaged, Brightview will replace that pipe, riser, or head at no cost.

Please send a text with your name, address and issue to the following:

1st- Irrigation Manager (941) 661-6329

2nd- Landscape Account Manager (941) 650-1938

On the weekends, if you do not get a response within an hour from either above, call 844-235-7778