Landscaping in Santa Monica
We do landscaping in Santa Monica on lots shaded by the building next door and on open ones, north of Montana, in Wilshire Montana, Ocean Park and the Pico Neighborhood. Call (310) 857-2520 for a free yard visit.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
If a two- or three-story building stands next to your house, look at where its shadow lies at lunchtime. Whatever is under that shadow, lawn or bed, lives on a few hours of sun, and the grass there is usually the thinnest you have.
If you tell us which side of your lot the taller building stands on, we know before we come which parts can take turf and which ones want shade planting.
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.
When the building next door takes your sun
Grass will not thicken along the shaded side
If that side gets only a little sun, more seed will not change it. Shade planting does well there, and artificial turf is the other choice, since it stays cool out of the sun.
The front by the sidewalk gets the sun the side yard never sees
If the front of your lot faces south or west, the ground between the sidewalk and the house can have sun all afternoon while the side yard stays dark. That is where planting for full sun goes, and if you want turf out front, we'll tell you which spots would get hot.
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 work, day by day, on a Santa Monica lot
- Your start date comes in writing.
- If your garage is on an alley, materials come in that way.
- Old lawn, shrubs and any concrete you are replacing go out the same way.
- The patio and the walks are laid.
- Drip tubing and any sprinkler changes go in.
- Shade plants go in on the side the building next door darkens, and the sun plants and any turf follow.
- You and your crew lead walk the finished lot together.
A bungalow with an alley garage, or a larger lot
- An older bungalow, Spanish or Craftsman house with a garage on the alley. The front yard faces the street, and the backyard lies between the house and the garage. If one of them faces west, we plant that one for the afternoon sun and the other for shade.
- A larger home north of Montana. If you want the front, the sides and the back done together, we begin with landscape design for a whole yard. We price landscape lighting on its own.
- A house in Ocean Park or the Pico Neighborhood with a small front yard. If yours is a lawn and a walk, the landscaping we would suggest is planting picked for the light it gets, and you can see how that looks on the page about front yard and parkway planting.
Call (310) 857-2520 and tell us where the shadow falls at noon, or book the free yard visit online.
We also work nearby in Venice.
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.