Commercial landscaping in Sun Lakes, AZ.
Active-adult HOA community in the Chandler area.
Sun Lakes pairs Chandler-area convenience with self-contained community living — golf corridors, lake edges, and common areas that double as residents' daily landscape. NexGen's Sun Lakes work emphasizes water-edge planting health, turf transitions along golf frontage, and the steady week-over-week consistency that keeps an active-adult community's standards intact through Arizona summers.
Sun Lakes is organised around golf corridors and water features, and both put constraints on the landscape an ordinary commercial site never faces. Turf runs right to fairway edges where the transition has to read as intentional, and beds sit close enough to open water that overspray, runoff, and whatever is applied upslope all become somebody's problem downstream.
Salts are the quiet issue. Low-desert irrigation water carries dissolved solids, and on a property irrigating heavily around lake edges they accumulate in the root zone until turf thins in patterns that look like disease and get treated like it for years. The answer is deliberate leaching on a schedule and enough drainage to carry it, not more fertiliser. Shoreline planting is kept to species that tolerate the wet-dry swing a lake edge produces through a Sonoran summer, and turf approaching a fairway is mown to a height that reads continuous with the course rather than stopping abruptly at a property line.
NexGen in Sun Lakes — FAQ
Why is Sun Lakes turf thinning in the same places each year?
Often salinity rather than disease. Irrigation water carries dissolved solids that build in the root zone, and the resulting thin patches mimic fungal damage closely enough to be treated as fungus for years. Scheduled leaching and working drainage are the actual fix.
How does NexGen manage landscape next to Sun Lakes water?
Conservatively. Products used near open water are chosen for what happens if they move, application setbacks are held, and irrigation near lake edges is set to avoid runoff. The shoreline is the last place to discover a schedule was too generous.
Can NexGen maintain turf transitions along golf frontage?
Yes. The line between community turf and course edge is held deliberately, with edging and mowing heights set so the transition reads as designed. A blurred boundary is the first thing a resident notices from a cart path.