Landscape Remodels
“How to Start a Landscape”
Dhetchai Allison, Our Landscape Designer
Not quite sure where to get started with your landscape? Do you have a pre-existing landscape that needs a “face-lift?” Or you have a blank slate to work with and you want to work with us to paint the canvas?
We can make it easy for you!
This is what we’ll do when you talk with us about updating your landscape:
First, we’ll find out what you want and need. We’ll ask you questions so we can get a complete understanding what you’re looking to do and how you want your landscape to look. Based on what you share with us, we’ll then recommend these 2 options. 1. If you’re a Do-It-Yourselfer (DIY) who is looking for advice, we’ll recommend the landscape consultation option. Green Valley has an extremely knowledgeable, creative and (most importantly in this economy) affordable, landscape designer, Dhetchai Allison (see his picture, above). Dhetchai can work with you on an hourly basis … or to create a full design … whatever fits your needs and budget. 2. The second option is you if you’d like us to install your landscape for you. This option is perfect for you if you: a. Live in an HOA: you’ll want or need a More >
“For Success – Use Local Gardening and Landscaping!”
Why will you be more successful if you use local gardening and landscaping experts?
What sets them apart from the others?
Here are just a few reasons:1. You can buy from the grower. This means they do not get their plants and trees in overnight from a Hot House in Southern California, the Bay Area or another state. Their trees and plants are acclimated to our area – which means that their plant material has been through our harsh winters and hot summers. This means YOUR plants and trees have a much better chance for success!
2. When you use a local nursery and landscape company, they take care of all your nursery and landscaping for you! This means they deliver and plant for you. In addition to properly planting the tree or plant for you, they can also install the tree stakes (and the deer fencing to protect your plant or tree from the deer), and tie into or install your irrigation.
3. They will not carry or sell plants and/or trees that will not flourish or do well in our area.
They are landscape contractors – so, they know first hand what does and does not do well in More >
Concrete Overlays, Chemical Staining & Concrete Countertops
Concrete Overlayments –
This is a thin layer of polymer modified cement based material that is applied directly to your existing concrete. This material can be hand troweled smooth, broomed or done in many other light textured finishes. The material can also be stamped to give you a natural stone finish or the effect of tile, bricks, slate, flagstone and more. Once the desired texture is achieved, the material is chemically stained to add color and then sealed to lock in lasting beauty. This process is a cost effective way to improve your concrete without the hassle of tearing out and repouring it.
Chemical Staining –If your concrete is in good shape, fairly uniform in color and just needs a little something extra to make it look sensational, staining is a good option. Stains are applied directly to your concrete and are translucent in appearance; they can be single or multicolored. Once stained a clear sealer is applied to keep the colors vibrate.
Concrete Countertops –We also creates awesome poured in place countertops. These countertops, unlike precast concrete counters, are completely seamless. These countertops are not only functional and durable but they are truly one of a kind works of More >
On the cover – Home Improvement & Remodeling Magazine – April 2010
When you walk or drive through a neighborhood, what catches your eye? Beautiful blooms in complementary colors, gorgeous greenery, a water fountain or pond, a welcoming walkway, a balance of shade trees and shrubs? Certainly, that type of landscaping is attractive and appears to be skillfully created to enhance the home and its style of architecture.
Contrast that with a house where plants are haphazardly placed with out any pattern or plan. Or the one that appears to lack care with flowers that are fading, colors that clash or trees that are gasping for water. The first home is like a painting done by a professional artist. Every detail is picture perfect. The latter is like an unfinished or unframed canvas. (more…)
Home Improvement & Remodeling Magazine
by: Julie DeVorss
After years of waiting to remodel the interior and exterior of their home, an El Dorado Hiill’s couple decided it was time to take advantage of the slower economy and use their saved up funds to invest in remodeling their front and backyards. Five years ago the homeowners got a bid on replastering and re-tiling their pool and decided to wait. A year ago they’re neighbors across the street got a front yard “facelift” for their yard, which inspired them get a quote to remodel their own outdoor spaces. They knew that they could take advantage of lower pricing and probably get more for the same amount of money they would have spent five years ago on their pool. For example the cost of two-colored stamped colored concrete in 2005 was anywhere from $9-12 per sq. foot. You can now find that same quality concrete $6.50-$7.50 per sq. ft.
The homeowners started by contacting the neighbors’ landscape contractor, Don DeVorss of Green Valley Nursery & Landscape (“Green Valley”). Green Valley set up a meeting with their landscape designer, Jill Hardesty of Beyond the Gate Landscape Design, to create a plan for their front and back yards that would solve their More >
