Custom Landscape Design & Installation in Sarasota
Transforming an outdoor space often involves more than simply adding new plants. We help Sarasota homeowners plan, prepare, and install landscapes that fit the property, complement the home, and account for each plant’s mature size, sunlight, irrigation needs, and long-term maintenance. Our services can include removing outdated or overgrown landscaping, selecting trees, palms, shrubs, and ornamentals, preparing planting beds, installing new plant material, and completing the design with mulch, shell, gravel, edging, or micro irrigation. For projects that would benefit from additional planning, we can also create a conceptual landscape rendering to help visualize the proposed layout before installation. Customers can explore our Plant Gallery to compare plants and identify styles or selections they may want incorporated into their landscape.
Our Landscape Design & Installation Process
1. On-Site Consultation
We meet at the property to discuss your goals, preferred style, problem areas, budget, and how you want the finished landscape to look and function.
2. Site Evaluation
We review sunlight, drainage, irrigation, existing plants, access, bed dimensions, nearby structures, and other conditions that may affect the design.
3. Removal & Preparation
When needed, we remove outdated or overgrown landscaping and prepare the planting areas for the new layout.
4. Plant Selection & Design
We work with the customer to understand their preferred colors, plant styles, privacy goals, maintenance expectations, and any specific plants they would like included or avoided. Customers can also browse our online Plant Gallery to explore options and share plants that catch their interest.
Using that input, we recommend trees, palms, shrubs, and ornamentals suited to the property’s sunlight, irrigation, drainage, available space, and overall design. Final selections also account for mature plant size, proper spacing, maintenance needs, and how neighboring plants may influence shade, moisture, airflow, and the developing microclimate within the landscape.
5. Conceptual Rendering
For projects that benefit from additional planning, we may create a conceptual rendering to help visualize the proposed layout before installation.
6. Installation & Finishing
Once the design and scope are approved, we install the selected plant material and complete the project with approved finishing materials such as mulch, shell, gravel, edging, or micro irrigation.
Conceptual Landscape Renderings
For projects that benefit from additional planning, we can create a conceptual rendering to help visualize the proposed layout, compare plant combinations, and make adjustments before the final scope is approved.
Renderings represent the general design, plant types, colors, placement, and overall appearance of the proposed landscape. Because real plants naturally vary in size, shape, fullness, and availability, the completed installation may differ slightly from the conceptual image.
Our Services
Personalized Design Plans
We create practical landscape plans based on the property, the customer’s preferences, and the long-term growth of the selected plants. This can include plant selection, placement, spacing, color combinations, privacy goals, maintenance expectations, and conceptual renderings.
Customers are encouraged to share their ideas and browse our Plant Gallery for inspiration. We then help refine those choices based on sunlight, irrigation, drainage, mature plant size, and how the plants will work together within the developing landscape.
Planting & Installation
We install palms, trees, shrubs, ornamentals, ground covers, and other landscape plants for new designs, existing-bed improvements, and property-wide landscape updates.
Plant placement is based on the approved design, available space, sunlight, irrigation, drainage, mature plant size, and proper spacing. We also consider how each selection relates to nearby plants, structures, walkways, windows, and other landscape features.
Installation may include bed preparation, soil amendments when appropriate, plant positioning, backfilling, initial watering, and finishing materials included within the approved project scope.
Micro Irrigation
We install and modify micro-sprinkler and drip-irrigation systems for landscape beds, trees, palms, shrubs, and ornamental plantings. These systems help deliver water directly to the intended planting areas while allowing watering zones and coverage to be adjusted for different plant needs.
Micro-irrigation work may include new components, extensions to suitable existing systems, emitter placement, tubing, risers, and adjustments needed to support newly installed landscaping.
Mulch Installation
We install mulch in new and existing landscape beds to improve appearance, help retain soil moisture, reduce weed growth, and create a clean finished edge around plantings.
Projects can include light bed cleanup, removal of excess old material, reshaping bed edges, and installation of the selected mulch at an appropriate depth.
Shell, Gravel & Boulder Installation
We install shell, gravel, decorative stone, and landscape boulders for planting beds, walkways, borders, focal points, and low-maintenance landscape areas.
These projects often require substantial material handling, careful placement, and proper site preparation. When access and ground conditions allow, our equipment helps us move and position heavier materials more efficiently and accurately.
Services can include removal or redistribution of existing material, preparation of the installation area, installation of edging or borders, and placement of decorative boulders as part of the approved landscape design.
Landscape Edging & Decorative Borders
We install landscape edging and decorative borders to define planting beds, separate mulch, shell, or gravel from lawn areas, and create a cleaner, more finished appearance.
Options may include flexible landscape edging, high-quality aluminum edging, composite edging, paver-style borders, and decorative stone borders. Aluminum edging offers a durable, low-profile finish and may be available in silver, black, or dark brown to better complement the surrounding landscape.
The best material depends on the design, surrounding surfaces, maintenance needs, installation conditions, and the type of material being contained.
Sod Installation
We provide sod installation for areas ranging from targeted lawn improvements to larger lawn replacement projects. The appropriate preparation and installation method depends on the existing turf, soil conditions, drainage, irrigation coverage, access, and the size of the project.
Each sod project is evaluated on-site to determine the required removal, preparation, material, installation, and initial watering needs.
Thoughtful Landscape Improvements Built Around Your Property
Every landscape project is different. We consider the existing property, sunlight, drainage, irrigation, access, mature plant growth, maintenance expectations, and the customer’s goals before recommending a design or installation plan.
Our focus is not simply to fill planting beds. We aim to create practical, attractive landscapes with appropriate spacing, coordinated plant selections, and materials suited to the property and intended level of upkeep.
Projects can range from individual plant installations and mulch refreshes to complete landscape removal, redesign, and installation.
Start Planning Your Landscape Project
Tell us what you would like to improve, remove, replace, or install. Landscape design and installation projects begin with an on-site consultation so we can review the property, discuss your ideas, and evaluate the conditions that may affect the project. During the visit, we can discuss plant preferences, existing landscaping, sunlight, irrigation, drainage, access, finishing materials, and the overall scope you have in mind. Whether you need a focused landscape update or a more complete redesign, contact Strong Landscape & Pressure Wash to schedule an on-site consultation.
Request a Landscape Consultation
Complete the form below and tell us briefly about the area you would like to improve, redesign, or install. We’ll contact you to discuss the project and arrange an on-site visit.