A Nashville landscaping company that designs before it plants

The price of a Nashville landscape is set by the hardscape — walls, patios and drainage are most of any budget — and by what the ground is doing under the lawn before a single plant goes in.

A design consultation in Nashville is usually booked within a week or two; build slots run a few weeks out in spring and sooner in the off season, and the schedule is written into the quote.

Landscape crews serving Nashville also build in Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, across 65 towns and 12 counties.

Our crews carry liability insurance we hold on file, and any crew building retaining walls or drainage has done it here, in this clay, on jobs we can name.

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Almost always grading that falls toward the house rather than away from it, compacted clay that will not absorb, or downspouts discharging at the foundation. Middle Tennessee clay soil drains slowly, so water that would soak away elsewhere sits here. The fix is usually regrading, extending downspouts well away from the house, and a French drain or dry well where the water has nowhere else to go.

Hardscape versus planting, access, and how much earth has to move. Plants are the cheap part. Retaining walls, patios and walkways are priced by material and square footage, and their cost is dominated by base preparation and drainage that nobody sees. Access matters more than people expect: a back yard reachable only through a narrow side gate means everything is moved by wheelbarrow.

Autumn is best for trees, shrubs and perennials — the soil is still warm, rainfall is more reliable, and roots establish over winter without the plant supporting foliage. Spring is the second-best window. Planting in July is the hardest on a new plant and needs the most watering to survive, which is why so much summer planting fails by August.

Regrading works where the slope is gentle enough to reshape and you have room to move the earth. A retaining wall is for holding a grade change that will not stay put on its own — typically anything over about three feet, or where you need usable flat ground. Walls above a certain height need engineering and drainage behind them; a wall built without drainage will lean or fail, which is the most common failure we get called to fix.

Slow the water down and hold the soil with roots. Deep-rooted ground cover, terracing, and directing runoff away from the slope face all work; sod alone on a steep grade usually does not. On Middle Tennessee clay the water sheets rather than soaks, so the priority is intercepting it above the slope rather than trying to armor the bottom.