Projects

Waukesha New Construction Project 

This home was built in 2018 in Waukesha, WI.​

Type: New Construction

Year Completed: 2018

Aspects: Final Grade, Stairs, Patio, Retaining wall, Downspout splash pads, Proper Drainage with Swales, Native Plants 

Any Specific Challenges: Difficult grade changes between properties and street, clay soils, consistent rain storms keeping yard unworkable

Price Range: $20k – $35k+

Materials Used: Retaining Wall => Field Stone Granite Boulders

                            Patio => Unilock Series 3000 Mineral Ice Grey

                            Stoop & Stairs => Brussels Dimensional 

Plants: Plants were selected to provide year round attraction, wildlife value, and bloom primarily blue, white, or pink flowers – no yelows or reds.

Trees & Shrubs: Red Cedar, Serviceberry tree, Pagoda Dogwood, Red Dosier Dogwood, Glossy Black Chokeberry, Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle, Hydrangea, Boxwood, Weigela 

Perennials: Blue Wild Indigo, Anise Hyssop, Little Bluestem, Pasque Flower, Jacob’s Ladder, Wild Blue Phlox, Large-flowered Beardtongue, Pennsylvania Sedge, Prairie Smoke, Coneflower, Pussytoes, Spotted Bee-Balm

Muskego New Construction Project 

This home was built in 2019 in Waukesha, WI.

Type: New Construction

Year Completed: 2019

Aspects: Complete Landscape Master Plan / planting bed design, native plants, wildlife, rainwater management 

Any Specific Challenges: Front yard sewer drainage connection

Price Range: $5k – $15k+

Materials Used: Mulch => Brown dyed shredded hardwood

Plants: Plants were selected to provide year round attraction, wildlife value, amazing colorful flowers, fragrant flowers near the front door, and low maintenance.

Trees & Shrubs: Hackberry, ‘Blue Muffin’ Viburnum, Endless Summer Hydrangea, Oakleaf Hydrangea

Perennials: Blue Wild Indigo, Prairie Blazingstar, Butterflyweed, Lavender, Prairie Dropseed, Purple Coneflower, ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ Coneflower, Blue Flag Iris, Prairie Smoke, Northwinds Switch Grass

Glendale Rain Garden

This home was built in 1953 in Glendale, WI.

Type: Drainage Problem / Rain garden

Year Completed: 2020

Aspects: Drainage, flooding, basement flooding, rain garden, native plants, infiltration, improve grading, basement water, foundation issues, rainwater

Any Specific Challenges: Extreme ponding situation, water from neighbors dumping into property, newer apartment complex built nearby changing the entire neighborhood rainwater drainage

Price Range: $12k – $30k+

Materials Used: Engineered Soil => Pervious Soil Mix

                            Mulch => Double Shredded Hardwood

Plants: Plants were selected to provide filtration, drought tolerance,  year round attraction, wildlife value, amazing colorful flowers, and low maintenance.

Trees & Shrubs: Saskatoon Serviceberry

Perennials: Blue Wild Indigo, Prairie Blazingstar, Butterflyweed, Prairie Dropseed, Purple Coneflower, ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ Coneflower, Blue Flag Iris, Pasque Flower, Prairie Smoke, Northwinds Switch Grass, Little bluestem, Large-flowered Beardtongue, Ironweed, New-England Aster, Swamp Milkweed, Wild Petunia

Whitefish Bay Rain Garden

This home was built in 1940 in Whitefish Bay, WI.

Type: Rain Garden, Drainage Solutions, Hardscapes

Year Completed: 2020

Aspects: Rainwater management, rain garden, downspouts, patio, natural stone, permeable patio, rain barrel

​Any Specific Challenges: Water draining into basement storage​

Price Range: $10k – $25k+

Materials Used: Stair => Natural, local Lannon stone stair

                            Patio => Natural, local Lannon stone flagstone       

                            Mulch => Double shredded hardwood

Plants: Plants were selected to provide rainwater absorption, year round attraction, wildlife value, amazing colorful flowers, and low maintenance. 

Trees & Shrubs: Japanese Maple ‘Bloodgood’

Perennials: Marsh Marigold, Swamp Milkweed, Prairie Phlox, Turtlehead, Prairie Blazingstar, Butterflyweed, Blue Flag Iris, Joe-Pye Weed, Great Blue Lobelia, Anemone, Heartleaf Aster, Brunnera, Black-eyed Susan, Sombrero Flamenco Coneflower, Lady Fern, Wild Geranium, Ligularia