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Landscaping — Beds, Planting, Sod, Rock, Fences and Drainage

The outside work that goes with the house: beds cut and edged, rock and mulch, trees and shrubs planted, sod laid, fences built, lights run, and water moved away from the foundation.

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Most landscaping calls are one problem: a bed that has gone to weeds, a side yard that floods, a lawn that never came back. Each page below is one of those jobs, priced by the bed, the yard or the foot.

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Landscaping jobs we do (40)

Beds, rock, mulch and edging (10)

Mid-century brick rambler with new slider windows and red trim, lawn and plantings in front

Front Yard Landscape Makeover — Foundation Beds Torn Out and Redone

The yews are over the windows, the mulch is gone and the edge is lost in the lawn. We take it all out and put back beds that fit the house.

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Front of a Minnesota ranch home with its driveway and yard

Landscape Bed Edging and Mulch Installation — Beds Redone

Beds that have lost their edge to the lawn, mulch that is more dirt than mulch, and shrubs hidden in weeds — recut, edged and mulched so the house looks kept.

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Red-framed replacement windows along a stucco walkout wall with a block retaining wall at left

Landscape Rock Installation — River Rock Beds and Foundation Rock

Rock is the bed you do not redo every two years: no mulch washing out, no re-spreading, and a clean line along the foundation, the deck or the fence that stays.

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Two-story stucco and stone Minnesota home with new casement windows across the front, lawn freshly cut

Mulch to Rock Conversion — Mulch Scraped Out, Fabric and Rock In

Mulch is a yearly chore; rock on fabric is a one-time job. We scrape the old mulch out, grade the bed and lay fabric and rock around the plants you keep.

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Two-story home with shake gables, new grid windows and a glass-panel entry door under a covered porch

Landscape Rock Removal From Flower Beds — Rock and Fabric Out

The rock beds from the last owner are full of weeds growing in dirt on top of the fabric, too hot for plants, and you want mulch, grass or a garden instead.

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Arched-top white gridded window in a stone-veneer gable beside the front entry

Replace Landscape Fabric in Rock Beds — Weeds and Old Fabric Out

The rock bed is more weeds than rock and gray fabric shows at the edges. The rock is still good. The fabric under it is not.

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Steel Landscape Edging Installed — Steel and Aluminum Bed Edging

Plastic edging heaves, kinks and pops up every spring. A steel edge set right is a straight line between lawn and bed that holds for years.

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Paver Mowing Strip and Brick Soldier Course Edging Around Beds

A paver strip at the bed line means mowing right up to the bed with no trimmer, and a clean edge that matches the walk or the patio.

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Block or Paver Tree Ring — Built Without Burying the Trunk

A tree ring stops the mower from scarring the trunk and the roots. Built wrong, it buries the trunk and kills the tree in a few years. We build it the right way.

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Accent Boulder Placement — Landscape Boulders Set by Machine

A boulder that was set right looks like it was always there; one dropped on the mulch looks like a delivery. We dig the seat, set the stone and bury its base.

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Planting and lawns (9)

Shrub Planting Service and Tree Planting — Foundation Plantings

Dead junipers in front of the picture window, a bare foundation on a new house, or a fence line that needs screening — planted right so it is still alive in three years.

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Overgrown Bush and Hedge Removal With Roots — Beds Ready to Replant

Foundation shrubs planted when the house was built are now over the windows, half dead inside, and growing into the siding — and cutting them at the ground leaves the roots.

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Small Tree Removal and Stump — Cut, Stump Out, Hole Filled and Seeded

The crabapple died, the spruce is eating the walk, and the volunteers along the fence are trees now. Small trees we cut, stump and clean up in a visit.

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Pollinator Garden Installation — Native Bed With a Mowed Edge

A native bed that looks planned has an edge, plants in groups and a shape. We do the sod removal and the planting; the bees do the rest.

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Rain Garden Installation in Anoka County — Dug, Amended, Planted

Roof water that sits on the lawn for days, a downspout that washes out the bed, or a watershed program that will help pay for a rain garden if it is built right.

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Sod Installation — New Lawn Sod and Sod Repair Patches

A lawn that never came back, a new house sitting in dirt, or a strip of bare ground where the trench went through — sodded on prepped soil so it takes root instead of shrinking.

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Lawn Leveling With Topdressing — Bumpy Lawn Smoothed and Seeded

A lawn full of dips and tire ruts does not need a new lawn. It needs a thin layer of topdressing dragged in, a few holes filled under the sod, and seed.

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Grass Won't Grow in Shade — Shade Seed, Mulch Bed or Rock Under Trees

You have reseeded the spot under the maple three times. Either it gets the right seed and soil, or it stops being lawn and becomes a bed that looks like it was meant to be.

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Lawn Repair After Construction — Regrade, Topsoil and Seed

The addition is done, the septic is in, the windows are new — and the yard is ruts, clay and a pile where the lawn used to be. We put the grade back and grow a lawn on it.

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Drainage, paths and lighting (6)

Yard Drainage Solutions — Grading and Buried Downspout Extensions

Water in the window well, a wet corner of the basement every spring, a side yard that is mud until June — most of it is fixed outside with a shovel, some pipe and the right grade.

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Dry Creek Bed Installation — River Rock Channel That Carries Runoff

Water already has a path across your yard. A dry creek bed gives it a rock channel to follow, so the lawn stops washing out and the low spot stops holding water.

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Gravel Garden Path Installation — Crushed Granite or Pea Gravel, Edged

A gravel path that was just dumped on the grass is in the lawn by June. One built on a base with a steel edge stays a path.

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Low Voltage Landscape Lighting — Path, Step and Wall Lights Installed

Steps you can see at night, a lit front walk and a wall that glows under the cap, all on a low voltage system that plugs into an outdoor outlet.

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Window Well Installation and Covers — Wells Replaced, Gravel and Drain

A well rusted through at the bottom, one the snowblower crushed, one that fills with water every spring, or an egress well that needs a ladder and a cover — replaced, drained and covered so the basement stays dry.

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Stairs Down to the Lake — Timber or Block Steps Down the Bank

The path to the dock is a slide in spring and a scramble the rest of the year. A set of steps built into the bank with a rail makes the lake part of the yard.

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Fences (10)

Wood Privacy Fence Built on Site — Cedar on Posts, Rails and Boards

A fence built board by board on site follows your yard instead of forcing it, and the gates are built to match. It is a carpenter's fence.

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Vinyl Fence Installation — Privacy and Picket, Posts Set Below Frost

A vinyl fence never needs stain, but it only stays straight if the posts were set deep and the panels were racked to the grade. That is the whole job.

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Chain Link Fence Installation — Galvanized or Black Vinyl Coated

Chain link is the fence that keeps the dog in and the budget down, and it looks right when the mesh is tight and the top rail is straight.

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Fence on a Slope — Stepped or Racked on a Hill, No Gap Underneath

Half the fences on a hill have a dog-sized gap under every section. The fix is deciding racked or stepped before the first post goes in, and building to it.

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Install Fence Panels I Bought — Labor-Only Wood Fence Panel Install

The fence panels are stacked in the driveway, the posts are in the truck bed, and nobody has time to dig forty holes and keep the line straight.

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Fence Post Replacement — Rotted or Heaved Wood Posts Reset

One post is gone at the ground and the section beside it is flat on the lawn; the rest of the fence is fine. That is a post job, not a fence job, and it is priced by the post.

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Sagging Fence Gate Repair — Gate Rebuilt, Post Reset, Latch Lined Up

The gate drags a groove in the grass, you have to lift it to close it, and the latch has not caught since last winter.

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Old Fence Removal and Haul Away — Posts and Footings Pulled

A falling-down fence, a chain link fence you never wanted, or a line that has to be cleared before the new fence goes in — posts, concrete and all.

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Deer Fence for a Vegetable Garden — Tall Fence With Buried Rabbit Wire

Deer go over a short fence and rabbits go under a tall one. A garden fence that works does both jobs: height for the deer, buried wire for the rabbits.

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Privacy Screen Installation — Wood Screens, Lattice Panels, Snow Fence

A patio the neighbors look straight into, an air conditioner beside the front walk, or a driveway that drifts shut every storm — a screen built where it does the job, not a fence around the whole yard.

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