A finished backyard in late afternoon light: a wide bluestone patio, a low dry-stacked stone wall, clipped boxwood, white hydrangea and ornamental grasses, with a lawn and mature maples beyond.

Patios, gardens and lawns, built to last.

Design-build landscaping for homes across Merrow County. Free on-site estimates, and a price in writing before any work begins.

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One crew, from the first drawing to the last plant watered in.

We design and build outdoor spaces ourselves. The people who draw your patio are the people who set the stone, plant the beds and come back to look after them. Nothing is handed off, so nothing gets lost between the plan and the ground.

Design and construction by the same crew
A price you see in writing before work starts
Maintenance plans for the gardens we build

Two crew members kneeling on a gravel base, setting a large bluestone paver onto a screeded sand bed with a string line and a rubber mallet.

What we do

Most yards need three or four of these at once. We plan them together, so the ground is opened once and every piece fits the next.

A curving bluestone walkway through beds of hydrangea, salvia and hosta, leading to a front door.

Patios and walkways

Bluestone, flagstone and clay pavers, set on a compacted base built to drain.

Wide natural stone steps climbing a slope between two dry-stacked retaining walls planted with lavender and grasses.

Walls, steps and grading

Retaining walls and terraces that turn a slope into usable ground, with drainage behind every one.

A deep perennial border in bloom with white and blue hydrangea, purple salvia, ornamental grasses and boxwood.

Planting and gardens

Trees, shrubs and perennials chosen for your light and soil, planted to fill in and stay put.

A freshly mown lawn with clean stripes and a crisp bed edge under a mature oak.

Lawn care

Weekly mowing and edging, plus aeration, overseeding and feeding on a schedule set by your soil.

A garden at dusk with warm path lights along a stone walk and an uplit Japanese maple.

Outdoor lighting

Low-voltage path lights and uplighting, laid out with you at night, so you can use the yard after dark.

An autumn garden with a red Japanese maple and a gold sugar maple over freshly mulched beds.

Seasonal care

Spring cleanups, autumn cutback and mulching, so every bed starts the season from a clean edge.

Recent work

A few of the yards we have designed and built, and what each one needed.

A bluestone patio at dusk with a round fieldstone fire pit, four teak chairs, a low stone seating wall and string lights in the trees.

A patio built for evenings

A sloping back lawn nobody used, rebuilt as a level bluestone terrace with a fieldstone fire pit, a seating wall and low lighting.

A front yard with a wide curving bluestone entry walk, layered foundation planting and a Japanese maple beside a gray-shingle house.

A front walk that leads somewhere

The old path ran to the driveway instead of the door. Widened, re-routed and planted so the house finally has an entrance.

A sloped backyard rebuilt as two planted terraces with dry-stacked stone walls and natural stone steps between them.

Two terraces from one slope

Topsoil used to wash to the street every spring. Two dry-stacked walls now hold the grade, and the planting above them holds the walls.

These projects are illustrative concepts created for this design demonstration, not records of completed work.

A wide view of a finished garden: a bluestone terrace, a dry-stacked wall, hydrangea and boxwood beds, a lawn and mature trees in low afternoon light.

What makes a patio last

Two patios can look the same on the day they are finished. What decides how they look in ten years is underneath.

Base

Excavated to depth and compacted in layers, never scraped flat and covered.

Drainage

Every surface is pitched to shed water, and every wall has gravel and a drain behind it.

Stone

Full-thickness natural stone, hand-fitted with tight joints and an edge restraint so nothing walks.

Planting

Amended soil, plants sized to mature in place, and a watering plan for the first season.

How a project runs

You decide at every step, and you always know the price before the next one starts.

Gloved hands lowering a young boxwood with its root ball into a freshly dug hole in a planting bed.

Site visit and estimate

We walk the property with you: where the water goes after a storm, which windows you look out of, what you have already tried. The visit is free and takes about an hour.

Design and written scope

A drawing of the layout and a line-by-line scope with materials named and priced, so you can see what is stone, what is labor, and what you could leave for later.

Build

Grading and drainage first, then base, then stone, then soil and plants. Our own crew, in that order, so nothing is opened twice.

Handover and care

We walk you through the watering for the first season and, if you want us to, come back to keep the beds, the lawn and the stone the way they were on the last day.

Questions we hear before an estimate

How long does an estimate take?

The first visit takes about an hour. For lawn care or a cleanup we can price it on the spot. For a build, we come back with a drawing and a written scope, usually within two weeks.

Do you charge for the design?

The layout drawing and the written scope are part of the estimate. Full planting plans and permit drawings are a separate fee, and we tell you before we start whether your project needs them.

When is the best time to plant?

Autumn, for almost everything. The soil is still warm, the air is cool, and roots get months to settle before the heat of summer. Spring is second best. Mid-summer planting works, but it doubles the watering.

Can you work with the plants I already have?

Usually, and we would rather. A shrub that has been in the ground ten years has roots nothing from a nursery can match. Sometimes the right move is a hard cutback and a season of patience rather than a replacement.

Do you maintain yards you did not build?

Yes. We ask for one visit first to see what is there and what it needs, so the plan fits the garden rather than a template.

Request an estimate

Tell us about the yard and what you would like it to do. We will write back to arrange a visit, walk the property with you, and follow up with a plan and a price.

You do not need to know what you want built. Most projects start with a problem: water in the wrong place, a slope nobody uses, a front walk that leads to the driveway.