Residential landscaping in Los Angeles
Front yards, backyards, and full properties for Los Angeles homeowners, drawn on paper first, then built by the same team that drew them.
Your home, drawn before it is built
Most backyards fail on the boring parts: grading, drainage, irrigation. We get those right first, then build the parts you live in. You end up with a yard that looks finished on day one and only settles in deeper by year five, built by the same team that first walked the property with you.
Front yards
The first thing anyone sees. Clean lawn or low-water beds, a real walkway, and lighting that carries the house after dark.
Backyards
Dinners that drift outside, a fire going after dark, grass worth walking barefoot. A backyard built for the hours you actually spend in it.
Full-property design-build
Front, back, and side yards drawn as one landscape, so the whole property reads as a single, considered idea.
What we build for homes
Landscape Design
Every Silver Leaf project starts as a drawing, because a landscape that is not designed is just purchased plants.
ExploreHardscape
Hardscape is the skeleton of a landscape: the terraces you live on, the driveway that greets you, the walls that hold the hill.
ExploreOutdoor Living
The best Los Angeles backyards are not landscapes with features bolted on; they are outdoor rooms designed as one idea.
ExplorePool Construction
A pool is the biggest single thing most backyards will ever hold, and it shows every shortcut forever.
ExploreIrrigation and Drainage
Water is the making or the undoing of a California landscape: too little and the planting fails, too much in the wrong place and the hardscape, the hillside, or the house pays for it.
ExplorePlanting and Sod
Planting is the part of the landscape that is alive, which means it is the part that must be chosen for this climate, not for a catalog photo.
ExploreArtificial Turf
Some spaces will never grow a good living lawn: deep shade, heavy pet traffic, a slope that drains wrong, or an owner who simply wants zero mowing and zero watering.
ExploreLandscape Maintenance
A landscape is not finished at the walkthrough; it is finished every week after.
ExploreOutdoor Lighting
A Los Angeles landscape lives half its life after sunset, which is exactly when most of them disappear.
ExploreEarthquake Repair
When the ground moves, the landscape takes it first: retaining walls crack or lean, slopes loosen, drainage lines offset underground, and hardscape lifts where rigid surfaces meet.
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How a home project works
Free site walk
We walk your property with you, measure, and listen to how you want to live outside.
A drawn plan
A drawn plan with materials, planting, and lighting selections you approve before work starts.
Built to the drawing
Grading, then hardscape, then irrigation, then planting, each trade building on the last until the yard matches the plan.
Tuned and handed over
Irrigation dialed in, planting established, and a care plan in your hands, so year five looks better than week one.
Homeowner questions
It depends entirely on scope: a planting and irrigation refresh is a different project from a full backyard with hardscape, a pool deck, and lighting. Every Silver Leaf project starts with a free site walk and a written estimate, so you know the number before anything begins. Financing is available if you would rather spread the cost out.
Yes. Financing options are available for home landscape projects, so the backyard you actually want does not have to wait on a lump sum. Ask when we walk your property and we will go over the options alongside the written estimate.
Yes. We are a design-build firm, so the same company that draws your plan builds it. Nothing gets lost between the drawing and the dirt, and you deal with one accountable team from first sketch to final walkthrough.
A focused planting or front-yard project is quick; a full backyard with hardscape and irrigation takes longer. We give you a realistic timeline for your specific property before work starts, and we keep it moving once it does.
We are based in Van Nuys and build across Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and Santa Clarita Valley, with a dedicated page for many of the communities we work in. If you are nearby, call (818) 216-8287 and we will tell you straight.
We build homes across Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Santa Clarita, Woodland Hills, Beverly Hills, and every area we serve.
Let's walk
Front, back, or the whole property. Tell us what you are imagining and we will come look at it with you.
7500 Valjean Ave, Van Nuys, CA 91406 · Free site walk and written estimate. Financing available.