Landscape design-build · Est. 2009
One studio carries your garden from the first pencil line to the last laid stone, then keeps it beautiful for decades after. Master plans, our own build crews, and gardenkeeping with a horticulturist's eye.
140+
Gardens designed & built
17
Seasons in the valley
2-yr
Plant guarantee, 5-yr stone
1
Studio: design, build & care
Every garden below was drawn at our studio and built by our own crews. Each case study tells the whole story: the brief, the design, the build, and the plant list, botanical names included.
Modern Formal · Fernway · 2024
A mid-century ranch with a brutal western sun and a cracked asphalt drive became a serene white-and-green composition that peaks at golden hour.
0.4-acre corner lot · 10 weeks on site · investment $150,000 to $300,000
Read the case studyClassic Estate · Harrow Point · 2025
A stone-and-stucco estate deserved better than cracked stamped concrete. We rebuilt the entire arrival sequence in full-range granite (drive, terraces and steps) to look a century old on day one.
1.8-acre estate frontage · 16 weeks on site · investment $300,000 +
Read the case studyNaturalistic Meadow · Kestrel Hill · 2023
Half an acre of thirsty lawn became a fountain-grass meadow with mown paths. It is cut once a year and alive the other 364 days.
0.5 acre of former lawn · 4 weeks on site · investment under $75,000
Read the case studyDesign-build means the person who draws your garden and the person who prices it work at the same table, and answer to the same name.
01 · Landscape design
Master plans, planting plans and build details, drawn in-house and priced before anyone digs.
02 · Landscape construction
Stone, carpentry, planting and lighting by our own people, under one project manager.
03 · Gardenkeeping
Horticulturists who prune, edit and renew your garden on a calendar written for it.
New here? Read how the studio started, or compare all three on the services page.
Two minutes, four questions
Property, style, scope, budget: answer four questions and we'll name your design language, show you the built projects that share it, and point you at the right first step.
Take the style quizModern Formal
Crisp lines, clipped green architecture, a calm and ordered ground plane.
Naturalistic Meadow
Grasses that move, perennials in drifts, a garden that hums with pollinators.
Classic Estate
Natural stone, boxwood structure, hydrangeas. Timeless and symmetrical.
Outdoor Living Retreat
Rooms for evenings outside: a dining terrace, a fire, a place to disappear to.
01 · Week 0 · about 90 minutes
A free, unhurried walk of your property with a principal designer, not a salesperson. We listen, look at light and grade, and tell you honestly what your ideas will cost before anyone draws anything.
02 · Weeks 1 to 4
We develop two design directions for the property (different answers, not the same answer twice) and present them at the studio over the survey and our site photography.
03 · Weeks 5 to 8
Your chosen direction is developed into the master plan: every dimension, material, tree and light fixture resolved. This is the document the garden is built from, and priced from.
04 · Weeks 9 to 12
Because our crews price their own drawings, the proposal is fixed, itemised and honest. We handle permits, utility locates and neighbour notice while the contract is finalised.
05 · 6 to 16 weeks by scope
Excavation to final sweep under one project manager. You get a weekly site report with photos, this week's work and next week's plan, plus a tidy site every Friday, because you still live here.
06 · The year after
A garden is planted, not finished. Your first year includes establishment visits from our gardenkeeping team, a spring review with your designer, and our two-year plant guarantee doing its quiet work.
“Verdant's masons worked like the house was theirs. The drive looks inevitable, which I gather was the point.”
The Harringtons · Stonebridge Arrival, Harrow Point
Design
“The house finally sits in something. Friends assume the landscape came first and the architecture followed.”
M. & J. Whitfield · Kestrel Hill
Build
“Two books written out there so far. The commute is the best forty steps of my day.”
A. Whelan · Alderbrook
Maintain
“We cancelled the irrigation contract and bought binoculars. Best trade we ever made.”
S. & L. Baptiste · Kestrel Hill
Sample reviews written for this demo.
May 14, 2026 · 6 min read
One of everything is a collection. Thirty of five things is a landscape. The drift method, explained, and why we won't cut your meadow down in October.
March 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Every stone looks good on installation day. The real question is year ten. A mason's guide to granite, bluestone, and the concrete that keeps its promises.
Begin here
Ninety unhurried minutes with a principal designer. Honest budget bands, no obligation, and a written summary either way.
