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Wide limestone steps leading down to a lawn, edged by grasses, white hydrangeas and a low stone wall at sunset

Landscape & Hardscape · South Jersey

Outdoor rooms, built in stone and planted to last.

Patios, walls, planting and lighting for homes across South Jersey — designed on paper first, then built by one crew from excavation to the last plant.

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Limestone terrace and garden stepsDemonstration image

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Fall is the season to design for spring. Site visits for next year’s builds are open now.

Approach

We draw every yard before we dig it. You see the layout, the stone and the planting at full scale on paper, agree on one written price, and then the same crew builds it start to finish.

Close view of a bluestone patio meeting a dry-laid stone wall, with a tuft of grass and a fallen yellow leaf
Bluestone meeting a dry-laid wall Demonstration image
  1. 01

    Drawn first

    A measured plan with materials and planting, reviewed with you on site before any work is scheduled.

  2. 02

    One written price

    Scope, materials and schedule in a single document. Changes are priced in writing before they happen.

  3. 03

    One crew

    The people who excavate are the people who set the last stone and plant the last bed.

Services

Six kinds of work, one crew.

All services
  1. 01 Patios & terraces Bluestone, limestone and paver terraces sized for how you actually use the yard.
    Dark bluestone patio at dusk with a curved stone seat wall, a round stone fire bowl and teak chairs under string lights
  2. 02 Retaining walls & steps Fieldstone and block walls that hold a slope and turn it into usable, planted terraces.
    Two tiers of fieldstone retaining walls with lavender and small evergreens planted on each level and stone steps through the middle
  3. 03 Planting design Layered, four-season planting chosen for your light, soil and maintenance appetite.
    Layered perennial border of coneflowers, salvia, black-eyed Susans and tall ornamental grass glowing in late light against a dark hedge
  4. 04 Landscape lighting Warm, low-glare light on steps, paths and trees so the garden works after dark.
    Stone garden steps at night lit by small warm step lights, with an uplit Japanese maple and grasses beside a house entry
  5. 05 Walkways & entries Front walks, landings and driveway borders that make the approach to the house feel considered.
    Granite cobble front walk leading to a bluestone landing and two stone steps at a dark green front door, edged with boxwood and white astilbe
  6. 06 Grading & drainage Regrading, dry creek beds and drains that move water away from the house and out of the lawn.
    Dry creek bed of rounded river stone and boulders winding through ferns and sedges, crossed by a flat stone slab

Before & after

Same yard, before and after.

A raised bluestone patio inside a curved stone seat wall, new beds along the wall and a regraded lawn. Drag the divider, use the arrow keys, or choose a view.

The same back yard after work: a raised bluestone patio inside a curved stone seat wall, new planting beds and a full lawn
Back yard before work: thin, patchy lawn with bare soil running up to the back of a gray shingled house
Demonstration pair, generated to show the comparison. Not a customer project.

Selected work

Terraces, walls and gardens, photographed as they are lived in.

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Process

From the first site visit to the last walk-through.

Overhead view of a hand-drawn garden plan on trace paper beside a pencil and samples of bluestone, fieldstone, gravel, cedar and lavender
Demonstration image
  1. 01

    Site visit

    We walk the property with you, measure, photograph and talk through how you want to use it. No charge within our service area.

  2. 02

    Plan & price

    A drawn plan with materials and planting, and one written price covering scope and schedule.

  3. 03

    Build

    One crew, a posted schedule and a daily tidy site. You get a short update at the end of every working week.

  4. 04

    Walk-through

    We walk the finished work together, hand over care notes, and come back after the first season to check on it.

Service areas

Working across Camden, Burlington and Gloucester counties.

  • Haddonfield
  • Cherry Hill
  • Collingswood
  • Voorhees
  • Moorestown
  • Marlton
  • Medford
  • Mullica Hill

Outside these towns? Larger projects within about forty minutes of Haddonfield are usually possible. Send the details and we will tell you honestly.

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