Service areas
Landscaping in Berkeley, CA
Serving Elmwood, North Berkeley, Berkeley Hills, Westbrae and every Berkeley neighborhood · ZIPs 94702, 94703, 94705, 94707, 94708, 94709
Berkeley gardens have a point of view. More than anywhere else we work, Berkeley clients arrive with values attached — native plants, pollinator habitat, sheet-mulched lawns, gray-water curiosity — and our job is to build gardens that live those values without looking like a science experiment.
We design and install native and Mediterranean palettes that feed bees and skip the water bill, convert tired lawns into layered plantings (EBMUD rebates help), and build the patios and paths that make small Berkeley lots live large. In the brown-shingle neighborhoods — Elmwood, North Berkeley, Claremont — hardscape has to defer to the architecture: natural stone, warm tones, nothing shiny.
Access is the quiet challenge on many Berkeley jobs: narrow side yards, shared driveways, gardens behind gardens. Our crews are good at threading materials through a 30-inch gate without bruising a single hydrangea — ask us about the Elmwood wheelbarrow relay.
What Berkeley yards are up against
Native & habitat gardens
Ceanothus, manzanita, salvias, native grasses — designed as gardens, not collections.
Lawn conversions
Sheet-mulch and replant, with EBMUD rebate guidance and drip irrigation throughout.
Small-lot, tight-access builds
Patios and paths built through narrow side yards without damage — planning matters more than machinery.
Hills drainage & slopes
Berkeley Hills lots share Oakland's winter-water problems; walls and French drains solve them.
Most requested in Berkeley
- Landscape Design & Planting — a yard designed for how you actually live
- Paver Patios & Walkways — an outdoor room you'll use year-round
- Irrigation & Drainage — water where you want it — and nowhere you don't
- Cleanups & Hauling — overgrown to open — usually in one visit
Recent work in Berkeley
Berkeley — questions & answers
Can you convert my lawn to a native garden?
It's one of our favorite projects: sheet-mulch the lawn, build the soil, plant a native/Mediterranean palette on drip, and the garden looks intentional from month one. We'll point you to EBMUD's lawn-conversion rebate too.
My only access is a 30-inch side gate. Is that a problem?
It's normal for Berkeley. We plan materials and equipment around tight access all the time — it may add a day, not a deal-breaker.
Do you build with permeable materials?
Yes — permeable pavers and gravel-set stone that let winter rain soak in instead of running off. Good for the Bay, and often the better-looking choice anyway.