Portfolio · Sonoma County

Our work,
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Planting borders that carry a garden from spring to frost, paths and structures that make a yard usable, and the unglamorous maintenance that keeps it all looking deliberate. Every job on this page was done on battery power.

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01 — Design & planting

Beds built to keep going

Layered perennials and grasses chosen for this climate, so the border still reads well in August when the easy colour has finished.

A deep perennial border of tall feather-reed grasses, pink coneflowers, orange rudbeckia and white daisies against a wood fence. — **Late-summer perennial border**Feather-reed grass, coneflower, rudbeckia and shasta daisy, planted so the height steps down to the paving.

A timber pergola over a curving flagstone path, planted with white roses and purple bellflowers. — **Pergola & side-yard path**A dead side return turned into the way you actually walk to the back garden.

A curved lawn edged in river rock beside a deep border of mixed flowering plants under a mature tree. — **River-rock lawn edge**A cut edge that holds its line, with the border deepened enough to plant in real drifts.

02 — Lawns & living space

The part you actually use

Healthy turf cut at the right height, and lighting that buys back a few hours of the evening.

A wide shaded back lawn under mature trees with mulched tree rings and patio seating. — **Shade lawn under mature trees**Shade-tolerant seed, a raised cut and mulched rings that keep mower damage off the trunks.

A back garden at dusk with string lights over the patio and low uplights along the planting borders. — **Evening lighting scheme**Low-voltage uplights along the borders and a catenary run over the patio.

03 — Pruning & cleanups

The work that doesn't photograph well

Most of what keeps a garden looking intentional is hedge work, structural pruning and hauling the results away.

A crew member on a ladder shaping the top of a tall arborvitae hedge with a pole trimmer. — **Arborvitae screen, cut back to line**Taken down off a ladder in passes, so the face stays flat instead of scalloped.

A person on a step ladder working in a fruit tree against a block wall. — **Fruit tree thinning**Opening the centre for light and air — the difference between a tree that fruits and one that sulks.

Loppers and work gloves resting on a bed of fresh boxwood clippings. — **Boxwood renovation**Hard-pruned in stages over two seasons. Clippings go to compost, not landfill.

A Makita cordless battery-powered lawn mower standing on a mown lawn.

04 — The kit

No engine, no jerry can

Mowers, trimmers, blowers and hedge cutters all run off the same swappable battery platform. They charge overnight, they start every time, and nothing in the truck smells of two-stroke.

Cordless mowers, line trimmers and blowers
Pole and handheld hedge trimmers on the same batteries
Spare packs on charge, so a big property never stalls

Want your yard on this page?

Tell us what you're working with. We'll come out, walk the property and leave you with a written estimate — no charge and no pressure.