Landscaping in Long Beach
One free yard visit covers landscaping in Long Beach from the parkway at the curb to the back fence, in Belmont Shore, Bixby Knolls, Wrigley and North Long Beach. Call (310) 857-2520 and tell us which way your front yard faces.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
If your front yard faces west, it sits in the shade of the house all morning and takes the full sun from lunch until evening. The backyard gets it the other way around, so the two want different things, and we price each one on its own.
Tell us roughly where you are, near the shore or further in, and which way the house faces, and we plan the landscaping around both.
What one free yard visit gets you
- A free yard visit within 3 business days. Paver and turf samples come with us.
- One quote with a price for each part of the yard. It reaches you by email within 1 business day of the visit.
- Turf and planting priced side by side. Where either could go, your quote names the one we would put there.
- One crew lead, with a direct number. Whoever walks the lot with you at the visit runs the build and the final walkthrough.
- What we build is covered for 1 year. What we plant is covered for 12 weeks, with a check visit in that time.
What you see on a Long Beach lot by mid-afternoon
The parkway at the curb is dirt and weeds
If you are on a block off Second Street, the strip between the sidewalk and the curb may be the only green you have out front.
If yours sits in full afternoon sun, we would put low planting there on drip, small tubing that waters each plant where it stands, and keep turf for a spot with some shade.
Nothing grows in the side yard because the sun never gets there
Between the house and the fence there may be a strip that sits in shade for most of the day, and any grass in it has gone thin and patchy.
If yours is like that, shade plants along the fence with a paver walk down the middle suit it better than a lawn. It gets its own price.
The back lawn bakes after lunch
Turf heats up on summer afternoons, so we'll tell you which spots catch that sun. Even near the shore, the side of the yard that faces west gets the full afternoon.
If part of your backyard sits in the shade of the house or a garage after lunch, the turf goes there, and planting takes the corner that bakes.
One crew lead runs your whole job.
Whoever walks the lot with you at the free visit runs the build and the final walkthrough, and you get their direct number that day. A question about the slope or the side gate goes to the person who measured it.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
- Free yard visit, booked within 3 business daysPaver and turf samples come with us.
- One quote with a price for each part of the yard
- Turf and planting priced side by side
- One crew lead, with a direct number
Belmont Shore to North Long Beach, lot by lot
- A tight lot in Belmont Shore. On a narrow lot the houses on each side can shade most of your yard. If yours is, we would plant for shade and salt air, and keep the one patch the sun reaches for a small patio.
- A Craftsman or Spanish house in Bixby Knolls with a detached garage. The backyard between the house and the garage is shaded by one or the other for part of the day. If yours is, a patio with a pergola goes in the part the sun reaches, and planting for shade fills the rest.
- An apartment building in Alamitos Beach. The strip along the building, the courtyard and the parkway out front each get a price. If you own or manage the building, tell us how we get in and who says yes. A courtyard between tall walls gets little sun, so shade plants are the ones that do well there.
- A house in Wrigley or North Long Beach. If your front lawn is in the open from the street to the porch, we would replace it with planting that takes the heat, with a paver walk to the door through it.
What happens on the build days
- We confirm the start date in writing.
- The old lawn, the dead shrubs and any concrete that is going come out first, through the driveway or the alley, whichever you showed us at the visit.
- Walls, patios and walks go in next, so nothing heavy crosses finished planting.
- Drip and any sprinkler changes go in before the turf or the plants.
- Turf and planting go in last, the parkway along with the front yard.
- Your crew lead walks the lot with you at the end.
Sprinklers on a lot you are about to change
- A head sprays the side of the house instead of the bed in front of it. We fix sprinklers on yards we didn't build as well as our own. If that bed is about to be replanted, we would put drip in with the new plants instead of fixing the head and then pulling it out.
- The new patio will sit where two heads are now. Those heads are moved or capped as part of building the patio, so the beds around it still get water.
- A yard we built, a season later. After handover we can stay on to prune, weed, top up the mulch and check the drip each season. It is for yards we built, and we don't run a weekly mow-and-blow route.
What we build on each part of a Long Beach lot
- The parkway and the front yard. The page on front yard and parkway planting goes through taking the lawn out and what goes in its place.
- From the sidewalk to the porch. We lay paver walkways wide enough for two people, with planting along the sunny edge.
- Somewhere to sit out back. We build flagstone and paver patios, and a pergola over the table gets its own price.
- Turf or real grass. We lay artificial turf, and if you want real grass instead, sod installation gets its own price too.
- The whole lot at once. If you want the front, the side and the back done together, we start with landscape design for a whole yard, and we price the plan at the yard visit, before any building is priced.
Call (310) 857-2520, or book a free yard visit online and we'll call you back the same business day.
We also work nearby in Lakewood.
Book one visit for the whole yard.
It's free, and you'll hear what we'd do in every part of it.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.