Landscape Design and Build

Built in the order the ground requires

Custom landscape design and hardscaping services, sequenced so the grade and the water are settled before anything permanent goes on top of them.

Chapter 01

Design and hardscaping, planned together

Custom landscape design and hardscaping are one job, not two, because the hard surfaces decide where the soft ones can go. A patio, a walkway or a retaining wall changes the shape of every planting bed around it and every drop of water that moves across the site.

Planning them together is also the only way the irrigation ends up correct. Retrofitting sprinkler coverage around paving that was laid without a plan is how yards end up with a permanently dry corner.

Finished paver walkway with new sod and planted beds in a Huntsville back yard

Finished paver walkway with new sod and planted beds in a Huntsville back yard

The order of work

Grade first. Then the beds and the plantings. Then the paving and the lawn that sit on top of them. That sequence is not a preference, it is the order in which mistakes become expensive.

Correcting grade after a patio is down means lifting the patio. Correcting drainage after the beds are planted means digging them out. Doing it in order costs the same money once instead of twice.

Chapter 03

What an irrigation company brings to it

We came to landscape work from the water side, which shapes how we build. We are thinking about where the water arrives, where it collects and where it leaves before we think about what looks good on top, because a beautiful bed that holds water is a bed that will be replanted.

It also means the sprinkler layout, the drainage and the planting plan are drawn by people who have to live with all three. Nothing gets designed into a corner because a different trade will deal with it later.

Clear communication from start to finish

We commit to clear communication from the first walk to handover, with no guesswork and no surprises, and we stay flexible when a project changes partway. Projects do change, especially once the ground is open.

Estimates are free and in person, and we schedule them within two to three weeks. Se Habla Espanol.

B & C Irrigation — Fully licensed and insured. Call (256) 286-4108.