Front Yard Landscaping in Hamilton

Just the walkway is fine. We tie the new walk into the driveway, the steps and the lawn so it looks like it was always there, and we patch the sod and the bed edges we disturb. If the walk you have is sound but sunken in spots, re-levelling it may be all it needs.

All three last when the base is right. Interlock comes in the most colours and patterns and can be lifted and relaid later. Large slabs give a clean, modern look with fewer joints. Concrete is one seamless surface and can be stamped. We offer all three and will tell you which suits the house.

Yes. Interlock or slab steps that have tipped are taken apart, the base is rebuilt and compacted, and the treads are reset level with the same rise on every step. Concrete steps that are flaking can often be resurfaced. Read rebuilding interlock front steps.

Often, yes. A porch that is sound underneath but worn, flaking or stained on top can be ground, resurfaced and parged. A porch that is cracked through, sinking or pulling away from the house is better rebuilt, and we will tell you plainly which one you have.

It depends on the light. Shade under a big maple suits hostas, ferns, astilbe and boxwood; full sun suits ornamental grasses, spirea, hydrangeas and drought-tolerant perennials. We match plants to your soil and sun, place them where they have room to grow, and bill every plant at cost.

With a deep, crisp shovel edge cut around the bed, so the lawn and the garden read as two clean shapes, and new landscape fabric under the mulch. On a long straight run a machine edge gives the same clean line. Either one is quick to re-cut when the grass creeps back.

Mulch for planted beds: it feeds the soil, keeps roots cool and makes it easy to add plants later. River rock for the strip along the house, a side yard or a bed with little in it: it never needs topping up, but it holds heat and is harder to change your mind about. Both go over new fabric.

Yes. We strip the old turf, fix the grade so water runs away from the house, add topsoil where the ground is thin and lay new sod tight to the walk, the driveway and the bed edges. The front lawn and the boulevard strip are usually done together, so the green runs all the way to the curb.

A bed reset or a strip of sod is often a day. A new walk with steps, beds and sod is usually a few days on site. Your written quote gives the dates, and we try to give a heads-up on any delays and let you know when we are coming, with as much notice as possible.

Yes. Fewer, larger shrubs, a deep edge, good fabric and mulch at an even depth, river rock where nothing grows and a lawn laid on real topsoil keep the work to a light spring top-up and an occasional trim. We plan for how much time you want to spend out there.

When the job needs it. A lot of front yards can be quoted by phone, by text or by email from a few photos and rough measurements. Steps, a slope or a drainage question usually get a visit so we can check the grade. Either way the quote is written and free.

The length of the walk and the number of steps, the material, how much old concrete, pavers and sod has to come out, the size of the beds and the plants, the square footage of new sod and the topsoil it needs, and access. Each is a line on your written quote, and materials are billed at cost with no markup.

Walkways, garden beds and new sod are landscaping, which does not need a building permit in Hamilton; a site alteration permit can apply if the grade changes a lot. Widening the driveway is different: where it crosses the boulevard, the City has to approve the driveway access first. We check what your project needs when we quote, and buried lines are located through Ontario Dig Authority before we dig.