A backyard you'll actually want to host in.
Design and build, hardscape and soft, drainage and grading — the parts that decide whether a garden still looks like this in five years.
A demonstration build. Nothing on this page books a crew or a site visit.
Start below the surface.
A lasting garden starts with drainage, levels and the relationship to the house. Plan where water goes, how retaining structures drain and how paths connect before choosing the planting.
Water has to go somewhere
On a Surrey clay lot, a patio laid to the wrong fall will move that water toward your foundation for the next twenty years. We set drainage before we set stone.
Walls fail from behind
A retaining wall is a drainage structure that happens to hold soil. Free-draining backfill, filter fabric and a perforated pipe are the parts you never see and the reason it is still straight in a decade.
Plants are a time decision
Anything can look finished on handover day. The question is what it looks like in year three, when the shrubs have reached the size they were always going to reach.
The house is part of the garden
Sightlines from inside, door thresholds, where the afternoon sun lands. A garden designed only from the lawn ends up being looked at rather than used.
From first walk to established garden
Landscape is the only trade where the work is not finished when the crew leaves. These are the stages, and roughly when each one happens.
The walk
Day oneWe walk the property with you, look at where water sits after rain, and sketch a concept on the spot. No charge, and the sketch is yours.
Design
Weeks, not daysLevels, drainage, materials and planting resolved on paper, where changes are free. You see the plan before anything is ordered.
Ground works
The loud partExcavation, grading, drainage and structure. This is the stage that looks worst and matters most.
Hardscape
The shape appearsPatios, walkways, walls and steps. The garden stops looking like a building site and starts looking like the drawing.
Planting & irrigation
Season-dependentPlanted at the right time of year for the species rather than the right time for the schedule, then irrigated to establish.
Establishment
Years one to threeThe part most people are never told about. What to water, what to cut back, and what will look sparse until it suddenly doesn't.
Hardscape, softscape, and everything under both
- Landscape design and build, from concept sketch through to planting plan
- Patios and walkways in basalt, granite and permeable paving
- Retaining walls — board-formed concrete, block and natural stone, drained properly
- Drainage and grading, including the French drains and dry wells nobody photographs
- Planting and irrigation, specified for a Surrey clay lot rather than a catalogue
Let's walk the property before spring books up.
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Free walkthrough and concept sketch
An hour on site, a look at where the water goes, and a sketch you keep whether or not you build it with us.
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