Hamptons Lawn Care Bills Are Hitting $200,000 a Year

A Curbed deep-dive into East End groundskeeping finds that basic turf maintenance, specimen trees, and the unspoken terror of looking like Grey Gardens can run a homeowner well into six figures annually.

Annual lawn and landscape maintenance costs in the Hamptons can reach $200,000, according to a Curbed investigation published in 2025.
Specimen redwoods over 100 feet tall are among the line items driving costs to the extreme end of the range.
Specialty turf varieties add tens of thousands of dollars before a single ornamental is planted.
The baseline expectation — keeping a property from visible neglect — runs to five figures on its own.
Curbed notes the figure covers maintenance only, before any new installation or landscaping redesign.

A Curbed report on the cost of lawn care in the Hamptons puts the upper range of annual groundskeeping at $200,000 — and that number arrives before a homeowner has added anything aspirational to the property.

The piece, published on Curbed's site, breaks down a cost structure in which basic maintenance to keep a house from what the article describes as a Grey Gardens situation already runs to five figures. The specialty grass varieties come next. Then the trees.

Specimen redwoods exceeding 100 feet are among the documented line items. Moving, planting, and sustaining a single large specimen can account for a meaningful slice of the total annual bill on its own.

The $200,000 figure represents the high end of a range, not the median. Curbed's reporting does not identify specific homeowners by name but draws on landscapers, contractors, and vendors active in the East End market.

The piece does not include the cost of the refrigerator.