Landscaping in Pasadena
Ask us about landscaping in Pasadena, from the parkway on Allen Avenue to the back fence, in Hastings Ranch, Linda Vista or Playhouse Village. Call (310) 857-2520 and tell us which parts of your lot get the afternoon sun.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
If you put the same shrubs on both sides of your front walk and one side looks fine while the other has burned, you are seeing the afternoon sun at work. The side of your yard that faces west takes the worst of it.
That is where we start. Tell us which way the front of your house faces when you call, and at the visit we check where the sun sits on each part before anything is priced.
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.
Before we come out to a Pasadena lot
Do I need to know which way my house faces?
No. It helps if you can tell us when you call, but your crew lead sees it at the visit from where the house and any trees throw their shade. If one spot bakes every afternoon, point it out.
I live in a condo near Old Pasadena with a small shared courtyard. Is that too small?
No. A courtyard or the strip along the building gets a price like any other part of a lot. If you manage the building, tell us who says yes and how we get through the gate.
Can you do only the parkway and leave the rest alone?
Yes. The parkway, the strip between your sidewalk and the curb, can be the whole job, with its own price. If yours is in sun all afternoon, we would fill it with plants that can take the heat, because turf there gets too hot to walk on.
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
The spots on your lot that the summer picks out
The turf out back is too hot to walk on by mid-afternoon
Turf heats up on summer afternoons, so we'll tell you which spots catch that sun. If yours lies in the open on the west side of the house, planting does better in that spot, and turf belongs where the house shades it after lunch.
A pergola over part of it is the other way to go, and it gets its own price.
Nobody goes behind the garage, and it is shaded all afternoon
If you have a detached garage, the ground behind it may sit in the garage's shadow once the sun moves west. Today it may hold old pots and a hose, but on a hot afternoon it is a cool place to sit.
A small paver pad with a bench, and shade plants along the fence, is what we would put there. It goes on your quote as its own part.
Sprinklers that water the wrong part of the lot
- The sunny half of the lawn is brown and the shady half is soggy. If both run on the same heads, one half gets too little water and the other too much. We repair sprinklers on yards we didn't build, and if the sunny half becomes planting, it goes on drip.
- A head by the front walk soaks the porch steps. We straighten or swap the head, or if that bed is being replanted, the drip goes in with the plants.
- A shrub has grown over a head in the side yard. The water hits the leaves and the bed behind them stays dry. Drip or sprinkler changes come with any build that needs them, so if we are planting that bed, the water reaches it.
- You want someone to check it each season. 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.
Three kinds of Pasadena lot, and the sun on each
- A Craftsman or period house with a detached garage. Your lot has a front yard, a parkway and a back lot between the house and the garage, and each one gets its own price. If the back lot gets the afternoon sun, a patio with a pergola over it is what we would put there.
- A ranch house in Hastings Ranch. If your back faces east, the house shades it from lunch on, and turf or a seat does well there. If it faces west, it takes the full afternoon, and planting with a covered patio is the better pick.
- An apartment or condo in Old Pasadena or Playhouse Village. The parkway, the strip along the building and a courtyard are the parts, and the owner or the manager books the visit. If the building shades the courtyard most of the day, we would plant it for shade.
From the day we start to the day we walk it with you
- The old lawn and anything you are taking out go first, down the driveway to the truck.
- Walks, patios and any wall go in before planting, so the wheelbarrows never cross a finished bed.
- The drip and any sprinkler changes go in before the plants.
- Plants and turf go in last, parkway included.
- Your crew lead walks the whole lot with you, front to back.
If you want landscaping priced for the parts of your lot that bother you, call (310) 857-2520 or book the free yard visit online.
We work in Glendale next door as well.
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.