We’re a full service landscaping company that designs each project to fit our client’s needs. We design, install, and maintain landscapes with unique native plant palettes and features suited to the site. Our designs solve challenges, utilize materials that cohere with existing structures, and create visually pleasing spaces for people to enjoy.
OUR SERVICES
DESIGN: PLAN SETS OR SMALL SCALE RESTORATION PLANS
Our designs address site-specific needs and the shared goals of the client and designers. Designs are illustrated by scaled plans and 2-D drawings with accompanying graphics such as illustrative photo-boards, renderings, and an estimate for our company to install your project. We’ll guide you about determining if a plan set or small-scale restoration is right for your site. Learn more about how small-scale restoration differs below!
We do not provide designs for individual hardscapes like retaining walls, decks, and patios. We incorporate hardscape elements into our designs, but they are not standalone projects.
INSTALLATION
We have an awesome in-house installation crew that’ll get your project off the ground.
Coaching services and designs for self-installation are not available. Please see our process below for an overview of working with us.
LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE
We offer a wide array of landscape maintenance services include weeding, pruning, plant health assessments, deer/rabbit protection, and more. For clients that wish to do their own maintenance, we are happy to educate you on which plants are desirable and which are invasive species. All landscapes, including no-mow lawns and native plant landscapes, do require some maintenance.
Light Dark Landscape does not offer mowing services, lawn care treatments, or mass sod installation.
SMALL SCALE RESTORATION
Restoration landscaping differs from our other services in that these landscapes are designed with broader considerations and a longer-time-scale than our residential and commercial properties. Restoration sites are often “wild” landscapes like wetlands, shorelines, woodlands, or prairies. Restoration plans are text-driven management plans involving historical and ecological research, tailored for the site’s evolution for years to come. These plans may or may not include 2-D drawings depending on the type of project.
Our restoration plans include services such as:
- Invasive species removal plans. We are committed to chemical free-alternative methods such as pigs, sheet-mulching, etc.
- Maintenance strategies after initial invasives removal, including scouting and removal of the invasives and monitoring of introduced natives
- Planting or reforestation plans to successfully introduce new species
- Coordination of prairie burns, if needed
- Erosion control plans
