Landscape Design & Installation
Landscape Design & Installation for Eastern Shore Homes
A plan drawn for your yard and your soil, then installed by the same people who drew it.
How It Works
Three visits, no mystery
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We walk it with you
Sun, shade, drainage, what you want to hide, what you want to see from the kitchen window. We measure and take photos while we are there.
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You see the plan and the number
A layout, the plant list and a written price. Change it as many times as you want before anything is ordered — nothing is committed yet.
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We install it
Beds cut and prepped, plants set, gravel or mulch in, edges cut clean, and the site left clean at the end of every day.
What Goes In
Beds, plants and everything that frames them
- Planting plans and full bed installation
- Trees, shrubs and perennials sized for the space they are going into
- Bed prep, soil amendment, mulch and gravel
- Cut edges, steel or paver edging and borders
- Foundation plantings and entry landscapes
- Features — fountains, boulders, gravel courtyards and dry beds
- Tear-out and replacement of overgrown or dead landscape
We size plants for what they become, not just what looks full on install day. A yard that is packed the week we leave is a yard somebody is ripping out in five years.
Our Work
Landscapes we have installed
Planting Here
What actually survives in Baldwin County
The Gulf Coast is generous and brutal in the same week. Long growing season, plenty of rain, and then a stretch of August where the heat and humidity cook anything that was planted in the wrong spot. Add a rare hard freeze every few winters and you learn quickly which plants are worth putting in front of somebody’s house.
Soil changes fast across the county too. Down toward Gulf Shores and Orange Beach it is sand that drains before a plant can drink, and the salt wind prunes anything tender. Inland toward Loxley and Robertsdale the ground holds water long enough to drown roots in a bad spot. Same plant list does not work in both places, so we do not use one.
The other thing we plan around is shade. A mature live oak canopy is the best thing about an Eastern Shore lot and the reason half the beds under it fail — those spots need plants that want the shade, not the ones somebody saw at a big box store.
Questions
Getting started on a landscape
Do I get a drawing before anything is planted?
For anything beyond a simple bed refresh, yes — a layout you can look at and change before we buy the first plant. It is easier to move a shrub on paper than after it is in the ground.
Can we do it in phases?
That is how a lot of these go. We build the plan for the whole yard, then do the front this year and the back next spring. Knowing the whole plan up front keeps the phases from fighting each other.
What if I do not know what I want?
Most people do not, and that is fine. Walk the yard with us and tell us how you use it and what you cannot stand about it now. We will bring the options — that conversation is the free estimate.
Do you maintain what you install?
Yes. We keep a lot of the properties we build, and new plantings get treated differently from an established yard for the first season while roots take hold.
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Ready to get started?
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come walk the property. Estimates are free, and you will talk to Myles — not a call center. Or tap the chat bubble; messages go straight to Myles.