Every detail has a source.
Here is how we get it.

Find Yard Pros lists 1,077 Tampa Bay lawn care and landscaping businesses. This page describes the research and checks behind every profile — the same written method our researchers and scripts follow — so you can judge how far to trust what you read. Latest source check: November 7, 2026.

1. Finding businesses.

Leads come from a sweep of public map listings across Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties and their neighbours. A map listing is only a lead: its name, address, phone and hours are treated as hints, never published on their own.

A business is only listed when it has a website of its own, the site shows it is operating, it does lawn or landscape work, and it says it serves Tampa Bay. We leave out marketplaces and lead-generation sites, garden centres that don’t install, supply yards, pest-control-only and pressure-washing-only companies, businesses with only a social or marketplace page, and sites that are parked or say the business has closed. Each franchise territory or branch office with its own page is its own listing; duplicates are merged by website and phone.

2. Where each detail comes from.

We record a fact only when we saw it on one of three kinds of source:

• The business’s own website (or its own branch page): services, phone, published email, office address, service areas, hours, prices, insurance wording, agreement terms, certifications, logo, photos and social accounts.
• A matching business profile, used to link to reviews and to confirm a phone number the business also shows on its own site.
• The official Florida register. FDACS pest-control business license numbers come from the business’s own site, or from the FDACS lookup when the business name and address match the record. See how to check an FDACS license.

Every profile lists its sources, which fields each one supports, and the date we checked it. Unknown stays unknown: if a business doesn’t publish its hours or prices, the profile says so instead of filling a gap.

3. How often we re-check.

Weekly, automatically. Our checker visits every website, quote page and source page listed on Find Yard Pros about once every 7 days. It looks for pages that have gone down, and for changes in what matters — dollar amounts, opening times and FDACS license numbers. A page that stays unreachable for days, a changed price or time, or a published price that has disappeared is flagged for a person to review against the business’s site. The checker never edits a profile by itself.

After every research round, in full. When we add businesses, we re-verify every listing on its own site: is the site live, do the name, phone, email, area, services, prices and photos still match? Fixes only ever remove what a source no longer shows, or take a value the business itself publishes. Businesses that have closed, moved out of the area, or whose site and business profile are both gone are taken down. The most recent full check, on November 7, 2026, covered 1,079 listings; 97% were confirmed on the business’s own site, and 0 were corrected.

A check date means we looked at the source that day. It does not mean the business updated its page that day.

4. What we never publish.

• Star ratings or review counts copied from other platforms. We link to the reviews instead, and keep business-chosen testimonials separate.
• Invented or estimated prices, hours, licenses, certifications or insurance. Insurance and agreement wording is what the business states; we don’t confirm insurance with insurers — ask for a certificate.
• A license number we can’t tie to the business by its own site or by a name-and-address match on FDACS.
• Stock photos or map imagery. Photos come from the business’s own site, credited and linked to their source.
• A home address. We show a street address only when the business presents it as its office or yard; otherwise we say where it is based and the areas it serves.
• The names of individual license or certification holders, or the personal details of anyone who sends us a request.
• Paid placement passed off as merit. Featured listings are labeled, and featuring never changes a listing’s trust check, credentials, photos or review sources.

5. Pages are data, not instructions.

We read business websites as evidence. Nothing a page says can change our rules, and we never bypass a site’s access controls; a page that blocks automated checks is recorded as blocked, not treated as down.

6. When we get something wrong.

Businesses change crews, prices and hours all the time, and we make mistakes. Anyone can suggest a correction, free. Read our corrections policy for how to send one and what happens next.

More about who runs Find Yard Pros and why: About Find Yard Pros.