Landscaping

Fresh sod, a paver-edged rock bed set around the tree, river rock along the foundation, and our own yard sign in the grass.

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Fresh sod, a paver-edged rock bed set around the tree, river rock along the foundation, and our own yard sign in the grass. Our own photograph.

Landscaping

From cleanups to upgrades, we help homeowners keep their property looking sharp and functional.

Landscape design

We plan outdoor spaces with a focus on layout, usability, and long-term results, so you know exactly what you are getting before the work begins.

Landscape construction

We build outdoor features that last, using quality materials and a solid process from prep to finish.

Decks

Deck construction from the graded base up, including composite builds. Our project gallery shows one go from bare ground to finished boards.

Common project types

Grading and prep work
Decorative rock and mulch
Planting and bed layouts
Edging and borders
Outdoor feature installs, as applicable

No pressure. No obligation. Just straightforward answers and a clear estimate.

One job, in order

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Grading and prep work

The ground gets shaped before anything is planted in it. Grading and prep is the first line on our project list, and it is the part nobody sees once the beds are full.

A crew member in the ELSG shirt sizing up the job: the old bed opened up and the wall block staged across the lawn before the rebuild.

A drone frame over a blue-sided ranch: freshly graded soil beds curving around the house, boulders set, a worker below.

Two crew in hi-vis cutting and digging a new planting bed along the side of a dark-sided house.

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Decorative rock and mulch

Rock and mulch come in by the trailer load and get spread around the foundation. It is the finish that keeps a bed looking sharp long after the planting is done.

Finished beds on a brick ranch: block-edged planting, shrubs set through decorative rock, and path lights standing in the bed.

A drone frame as the crew spread white landscape rock around a foundation, straight out of the dump trailer.

A river-rock bed with curved concrete curbing running around a stone house corner, new shrubs set through the rock.

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Planting and bed layouts

Fabric down the full length, shrubs staged along the line, then everything goes in. Where each plant sits is settled before the first hole is dug, because moving a shrub is cheap on paper and expensive in the ground.

A long new bed with black weed fabric laid the full length and potted shrubs staged along it, ready to plant.

A tan lake home at the bay-window corner with a new mulch bed and fresh plantings wrapping the foundation.

A curved paver border around a decorative rock bed, ornamental grass and broad-leaf plants set through it, with the utility boxes behind.

Fresh mulch beds and new shrubs going in along a stamped-concrete walk, cone and bucket still on site.

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Edging and borders

The trench gets cut in the sod and the edging goes in by hand, steel or paver. It is the line that keeps the rock out of the lawn and the lawn out of the rock.

Setting the border. Our crew setting the paver border around a tree bed by hand, cut-off saw and mallet down in the dirt, the first courses already laid. — Our crew setting the paver border around a tree bed by hand, cut-off saw and mallet down in the dirt, the first courses already laid.

Border closed. The same tree bed with the paver border closed all the way around and the soil graded flat inside it, ready for rock. — The same tree bed with the paver border closed all the way around and the soil graded flat inside it, ready for rock.

The same tree bed, photographed while the border went in and again once it was closed.

The finished ring filled with mixed river rock, our yard sign in the lawn.

The same border close up, where the paver course separates the rock bed from the lawn in one clean curve.

A new decorative rock bed with steel edging curving past a screened porch under a large tree.

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Landscape construction

The built half of the yard, shown start to finish on one backyard: the curve marked on the dormant lawn, the paver border set through it, the finished rock bed, and the paver landing built on the same property.