Landscape design · build · seasonal care
Gardens designed to grow old beautifully.
We design, build, and tend outdoor spaces that get richer every season — native plantings, honest stonework, and care plans measured in decades, not weekends.
Our philosophy
A garden should belong to its place — and get better at it every year.
Most landscapes peak the day they're installed. Ours are planned for year five: native perennials that knit together into living ground cover, grasses that catch the winter light, stone that settles in rather than sits on top.
Roughly seventy percent of every planting plan we draw is native to this region. That's not a slogan — it's why our gardens shrug off drought, feed the pollinators, and ask less of the hose and the weekend with every season that passes.
What we do
Three disciplines, one standard of craft.
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Landscape design
Every project begins on paper. We survey grades, soils, sun, and sightlines, then draw a plan for the whole property — planting schemes, stonework, lighting, drainage, irrigation — so each phase builds toward one coherent garden, even if it's built over several years.
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Build & stonework
Our own crews set every stone. Dry-laid flagstone terraces, seat walls, fire circles, cedar arbors, and steel-edged paths — built on proper base work so they hold their lines through twenty freeze-thaw winters. Planting is done by hand, at the right depth, in amended native soil.
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Seasonal care
A garden is a relationship, not a transaction. Our horticulturists return through the year — spring cutbacks, June editing, structural pruning, fall planting windows — so the design keeps maturing the way it was drawn. Most build clients stay with us for care.
How a project unfolds
From first walk-through to fifth spring.
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Consult
We walk the property with you — how you live outside, what the site wants to do, honest budget ranges before anyone draws a line.
Week 1 · on site -
Design
Site survey, concept sketches, then a full plan: planting palette, materials, lighting, and a phased build estimate you can hold us to.
Weeks 2–6 -
Build
One dedicated crew, one foreman, a posted schedule. Stonework first, soil and planting last, a clean site every evening.
Typically 4–10 weeks -
Seasonal care
We return each season to prune, edit, and renew — because the best photograph of a garden we build is taken three years later.
Year-round
Maintenance plans
Kept the way it was designed.
Essential
From $220 / month
- Monthly horticultural visit, April–November
- Pruning, deadheading & bed editing
- Spring cutback & fall leaf management
Full stewardship
From $460 / month
- Twice-monthly visits with a lead horticulturist
- Seasonal container plantings & bulb layering
- Irrigation checks & annual system tune-up
Estate
By proposal
- Weekly presence through the growing season
- Orchard, meadow & woodland-edge management
- Annual design review with the original designer
Three years on, the garden they built is the reason we eat outside from April to November. It has never once looked like it was “landscaped” — it looks like it grew here.
Where we work
Rooted in the valley.
We keep our project map small on purpose — close enough that a designer can stop by a build every day, and a care crew can be there the week you call.
- Cedar Hollow
- Marlow
- Ashfield
- Briar Glen
- Stonebridge
- Hollis Corners
Begin with a walk
Walk us through your yard.
Design consultations are unhurried, on site, and free. We'll listen first, look hard at the ground, and tell you plainly what we'd do with it.
Book a design consultation(555) 017-2630