Landscape Design in the South Bay
We lay out landscape design in the South Bay around the sun your lot gets, from a small yard off The Strand to a hillside in Palos Verdes. Call (310) 857-2520 and we'll walk yours with you at a free yard visit.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
Before your yard is designed, sketch the lot on a sheet of paper and mark where the sun is at nine, at noon and at four.
If you do that, much of the layout is already decided. The spot that is pleasant at the hour you are home is where the patio goes, and each bed gets plants for the sun you marked on it.
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 your sketch is likely to show
Most of the yard is in shadow by early afternoon
If your house is tall and the lot is small, as in much of Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, the house shades a good deal of its own yard. We'd plant for shade, pave what you walk on, and use artificial turf if you want green underfoot in the shade.
Nothing shades the backyard between nine and four
If you have a ranch or tract house inland, around Hawthorne or Lomita, the backyard may be open to the sun all day. Planting takes that sun better than a lawn does. We pick plants for the heat your part of LA gets.
One side of the hill has the afternoon sun and the other never does
If your lot in Palos Verdes falls away from the house, the two sides of the slope need different planting, and terraces to hold it. For a steep slope, we price the plan at the yard visit, before any building is priced.
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
Larger pieces a design can include
Each of these gets its own price on the one quote.
- Shade over the spot you marked for sitting. If that spot is in the sun at four, we build a pergola or a patio cover over it.
- An outdoor kitchen. We build it and bring the gas line, the water and the power to it.
- Lights. We put landscape lighting along the walks and steps, and we wire it.
- A real lawn. We lay sod where you want grass, and your sketch shows which ground has the sun for it.
- Sprinklers. We put in new systems, and we repair sprinklers on yards we didn't build as well as on our own.
How the number is reached for a South Bay lot
- The front. We measure it, and the price follows its size and what has to come out. If you want a front with no lawn, the plants and the drip are priced together.
- The patio. We price flagstone and paver patios by size and by the stone you pick from the samples.
- Walls on a slope. The size of a wall sets its price, whether it is a low planter wall or one of our retaining walls and terraces that holds a hill.
- The way in. If your garage opens onto an alley and the yard is behind it, show us the way from the alley to the yard. How the materials reach the back goes into the price.
From the beach cities to the hill
- A small lot in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach or El Segundo. If your yard is a few steps deep, we draw the walk, the planting and a place to sit so they don't crowd each other.
- A house inland. If you have a front lawn and a backyard, they get different sun, so mark both on your sketch. Each one is its own part on the quote.
- A large lot in Palos Verdes. If you want the whole lot done, the page on landscape design for a whole yard shows what we draw and price.
Call (310) 857-2520 or book the free yard visit online, and have your sketch ready if you made one.
We also work across Manhattan Beach, and next door in Torrance.
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.