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Landscape Design

Most yards get landscaped in pieces. A bed here one year, a patio there the next, and nothing quite relates to anything else.

Design is the step that stops that. We plan the whole yard first, in the order it should be built, so the drainage, the hardscape and the planting all agree with each other.

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Front foundation beds with shrubs, river stone and a brick border
Beds shaped to the house, not the mower. Stone and a brick edge holding the line.
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How it’s built

Planted for how it looks in year three

A new bed should not peak on install day. We layer it back to front, space plants for their grown size, and mulch to the right depth, so it fills in instead of fighting itself.

What you see growing in here is the plan: structure at the back, texture in the middle, color at the front edge.

  • Plants picked for Upstate clay and heat
  • Spaced for year three, not day one
  • Mulched right, never volcanoed
Sheet 04 · Bed installation, elevation view
A bare planting bed filled with mulch, shrubs, ornamental grasses and a small tree An empty bed at the foot of a house wall is mulched, then planted with layered shrubs, grasses, a small ornamental tree and flowering accents.
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How the work goes

  • Plants chosen for Upstate clay, heat and humidity
  • Four season interest, not just a good April
  • Planned around drainage instead of fighting it
  • Phased so you can build it over time
  • Designed and installed by the same people
  1. 01

    Walk it with you

    How you use the yard, what you avoid, what you want it to feel like, and what the budget actually is.

  2. 02

    Read the site

    Sun, slope, drainage and soil. Upstate clay and full afternoon sun rule out a lot of plants that look fine on a plan.

  3. 03

    Draw the plan

    Beds, hardscape, grades and plant selection, laid out so you can see it before it costs anything.

  4. 04

    Phase it

    If it is not all happening at once, we sequence it so early work does not get torn out by later work.

  5. 05

    Build it

    The same crew that drew it installs it, so nothing gets lost between the plan and the yard.

Landscape Design: common questions

What grows well in Upstate South Carolina?

We lean on plants that handle clay and heat: hollies, abelia, distylium, itea, muhly and switchgrass, oakleaf hydrangea in shade, and serviceberry or crape myrtle for small trees. What fails here is usually something that wants sharp drainage in soil that holds water like a bowl.

Do I need a design if I only want one bed?

No. For a single bed we can just plant it. Design earns its keep when there is grading, hardscape, or more than one area that needs to relate to the others.

Will you work with plants I already have?

Yes. Established shrubs are worth keeping when they are healthy and in the right place, and some can be moved rather than replaced.

Landscape Design across the Upstate

We take this work throughout Greenville and Spartanburg counties.

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Tell us what the yard is doing.

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