Landscapes worth coming home to.

It depends on the scope and your town's bylaws. Most ground-level patios in Franklin don't require a permit, but pergolas, retaining walls over 4 ft, gas fire features, and any work near wetlands usually do. We pull all required building, gas, and conservation permits in-house so you don't have to deal with town hall.

Before any pavers go in, we mark utilities (Dig Safe), protect the lawn and existing landscaping, excavate to the proper depth, and build a compacted base of process gravel. For patios and walls we use geotextile fabric and the right depth of base for New England's freeze-thaw cycles — this is what keeps the project flat and tight for decades.

A spring cleanup or mulch refresh is a one-day job. A new patio usually runs 1–2 weeks from start to finish. Full backyard resort builds (patio, fire pit, pergola) typically take 4–8 weeks on site, with another 2–4 weeks of design and permitting beforehand. We give you a written schedule before we start and update you weekly.

Hardscape is very low maintenance — a rinse each spring and re-sanding the joints every few years. Plantings need regular watering for the first full season while roots establish, and we offer maintenance plans that cover pruning, mulch refresh, fertilization, and seasonal cleanups so your investment keeps looking the way it did on day one.

Yes. Hardscape installations carry a 2-year workmanship warranty, and we guarantee plant material for one full growing season when we're doing the watering or you're on one of our maintenance plans.