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Landscape design and installation

Planting beds, shrubs and trees, mulch or pine straw, and edging, designed for the Gulf Coast and installed by the same crew that planned it.

Serving Mobile and Baldwin counties

New planting bed with hydrangeas, shrubs, and pine straw along a brick house and driveway

How we do it

Most landscaping jobs start the same way: the front of the house looks tired, the beds have gone to weeds, or a new build came with sod and nothing else. We design the beds, pick plants that actually like south Alabama heat and rain, and install the whole thing — plants, soil, edging, and mulch or pine straw — in one go.

The design is done with the rest of the yard in mind. If a walkway, lighting, or irrigation is coming later, the beds are laid out so none of it has to be dug up twice. That is the advantage of one company doing the whole yard instead of three.

We work on front-yard curb appeal, foundation plantings, driveway and walkway borders, and full backyard planting plans.

What’s included

  • A site visit to look at sun, shade, drainage, and what is already growing
  • A planting plan you can see before anything is ordered
  • Bed preparation: clearing, shaping, and amending the soil
  • Shrubs, trees, perennials, and grasses suited to the Gulf Coast
  • Steel, stone, or paver edging to keep beds and lawn apart
  • Mulch or pine straw, finished to a clean line
  • Removal of everything we take out

What the price depends on

We do not publish a rate for this, because a number with no yard attached to it is a guess. These are the things that actually move it:

  • How much bed you are building, and how much of it is new ground versus beds being reworked
  • Plant sizes. The same shrub at three gallons and at fifteen gallons are not close in price
  • Whether the soil needs amending, and whether the beds need reshaping and fresh edging first
  • Mulch or pine straw, and how deep it goes
  • Access. A clear wheelbarrow route costs less than carrying everything through a side gate

We measure all of it on site. The written quote comes back with the scope, the materials and one price for the whole job, so you are comparing a number to a number rather than one guess to another.

  • Foundation bed with red mulch, stone edging, and new shrubs beside a brick house
  • Flagstone stepping-stone path set into a freshly mulched bed in front of a white house
  • Front porch of a brick house with a new planting bed, pine straw, and fresh sod

Questions about this work

What plants hold up in Mobile and Baldwin County?

Heat, humidity, heavy rain, and the occasional freeze rule out a lot of what garden centers sell. We lean on plants that are proven along the Gulf Coast and match them to the sun, shade, and drainage of each bed rather than planting the same thing everywhere.

Mulch or pine straw?

Both work here and it is mostly a look and a budget question. Pine straw is common on the Gulf Coast, cheap, and easy to top up. Hardwood or dyed mulch holds a crisper edge and lasts longer between refreshes. We will tell you which suits the beds you have.

Can you redo just the front beds?

Yes. Front-yard refreshes — pulling overgrown shrubs, reshaping beds, new plants, new edging, fresh mulch — are one of the most common jobs we do, and they make the biggest difference to a house for the money.

Free site visit, written quote

Thinking about landscape design & installation?

A sentence or two is enough. We come out, walk the property with you, and follow up with one written quote for the whole job.

  1. Call or send the form. Tell us what you are picturing and where the property is. We come back to you within one business day.
  2. We walk the property. We look at the ground, the drainage, the sun and shade, and what is already there, and talk through options and budget.
  3. One written quote. One scope and one price for the whole job — lawn, hardscape, drainage, fence — in the order it should be built.
  4. We build it. One crew from the first dig to the last light, with a call if anything changes along the way.

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