A good landscape plan is not a pretty drawing – it is a build sequence with real prices attached. We design around how you actually use the yard, phase the work to fit your budget, and build it with the same crew that planned it. No handoff between a designer who over-promises and a builder who shrugs.
Measured plan for the space – patio, lawn, beds, trees, grades, and sight lines.
Hardscape materials and zone-5-hardy plants chosen for your light, soil, and maintenance appetite.
Proper dig-out, soil correction, and grading so water moves away from the house.
Patios, walls, and walkways with our hardscape partners; lawn, beds, and planting by our own crew.
A single schedule and a written workmanship guarantee across the whole project.
Every project starts with a walk around the property. We talk about how you want to use the space – kids, dogs, dinners outside, less mowing – and what the yard is doing wrong today: pooling water, a lawn that will not grow, a patio that heaved. From there we produce a measured plan and an itemized quote, phased if the budget calls for it. Then our crew builds it: grading and drainage first, hardscape with our partners next, then soil, sod, beds, and trees to finish.
Almost every failed Ottawa landscape we are called to fix has the same root cause: water. Clay soil holds it, flat grades trap it, and winter turns it into frost heave. We fix the grades and drainage before anything pretty goes in, because a beautiful yard that floods every April is not a beautiful yard.
We design with maintenance in mind – bed shapes you can actually mow around, plants that fit their spot at full size, and materials that age well. And because we also run year-round maintenance, we can keep the landscape we built looking the way it did on walkthrough day.
Complete front- or backyard redesigns in Ottawa typically start around $20,000 and can reach $75,000+ when they combine large interlock areas, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens, lighting, and mature planting. Smaller single-feature projects cost far less – which is why we phase plans, so you can build in stages without redoing work.
Not always. For a single feature we quote the feature. A design pays for itself when several elements have to work together – grades, drainage, patio, beds, and lawn – so nothing gets built twice.
Yes, and we recommend it for larger budgets. We sequence the disruptive work first – excavation, grading, hardscape – then lawn and planting, so each finished phase stays finished.
Where a project needs one – typically larger retaining walls or structures – we identify it in the quote and handle the paperwork as part of the project.