Landscape design and build
Landscape design and build in Yakima, from the first stake to the first watering
Front yards and back yards laid out and built in one run by the same crew: grade, curb, boulders, basalt rock or mulch, and planting.
Chapter 01
Walk the site, then paint the layout on the ground
A yard goes wrong on paper long before it goes wrong in dirt. A bed drawn two feet too close to the downspout, a lawn panel too narrow to mow, a path that does not go where people actually walk: all of it is cheaper to fix with a can of marking paint than with a skid steer. So the job starts with a walk of the property, where the sun hits in August, where water runs after a thunderstorm, and where the family really uses the space.
Marco's crew paints the curves right on the lawn and the driveway edge, then walks them again with the owner before anything is cut. Beds get sized for the plants that will fill them, not the other way round. In the Yakima Valley that also means planning around hot, dry summers and a hard freeze-thaw winter, so what goes in the ground has to survive both.
White farmhouse front yard with basalt rock beds, boulders, a lawn panel and a paver walk
Grade and drainage come before a single bed
The expensive failures in landscaping are the ones you cannot see from the street. If the finish grade sends water toward the house, or pools it in the low corner of a new lawn, no amount of nice planting fixes it. The crew sets grade first with the mini excavator and skid steer, falls the ground away from foundations, and works out where roof water and sprinkler runoff are going to go before a bed is shaped.
Weeds are the other thing to settle early. Beds get cleared down to clean soil, then lined and filled so the mulch or rock stays where it is put. The aim is a yard that still looks built in year five, not one that needs rescuing every spring.
Chapter 03
Curb, rock or mulch, then the planting, and a first season that holds
Poured concrete curbing is what OMG is known for around here, and it does real work: it keeps black mulch and basalt rock out of the lawn, gives the mower a clean line, and holds the bed's shape through frost heave. Boulders get set once the curb is cured, with the face of the stone turned the way it looks best from the house, then the beds fill with basalt rock or deep black mulch and the plants go in last.
The first season is where new plantings are won or lost. Water deep and less often, let the lawn knit before heavy use, and watch the edges of the beds in July heat. The same crew installs sprinklers and keeps up lawn maintenance, so the watering plan is part of the design from day one. Commercial properties and homes get the same sequence, and Marco stays on the job from the quote through the final walk.
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Their yards
Curbed beds, basalt rock and a lawn that mows clean
These are OMG jobs, not catalogue shots. Each one started as a walk of the property and a line of paint on the ground.
“Marcos was outstanding from the quote to design to completion of our landscaping project. Quality work and professionalism. We couldn't be happier with the end result.”
Most landscape jobs also call for a paver patio or walkway or a retaining wall where the lot slopes, and the crew builds those in the same visit so the grades and edges line up.