Award-Winning Landscape Development Services

No. A full design belongs on projects where the whole property is being reworked and the pieces have to resolve together. A single terrace, a fence line, a pergola or a set of beds does not need one. That work gets scoped from a site visit and priced from there. Design becomes worth the investment when the scope is large enough that building without a plan would cost more in rework than the plan costs.

Anything that improves a property without reorganizing it. Paver and bluestone patios, stone walkways, retaining walls, garden bed construction and edging, fences, pergolas and pavilions, fire pits and fireplaces, outdoor kitchens, and landscape lighting. These are defined pieces of work with a clear start and finish, and they are often the fastest way to change how a property gets used.

Yes. Plans drawn elsewhere get built regularly. The first step is a review of the drawings against the site, since plans occasionally specify grades, materials or plant sizes that the property or the local conditions will not support. Anything that looks like a problem gets raised before work begins rather than discovered halfway through.

Earlier than most people expect, because every firm on the South Fork shares the same short season and books fill in order. Smaller enhancement work is easier to place and can often be scheduled inside a season. Anything involving structures, excavation, permits or custom fabrication needs a winter start to be finished by summer. A conversation in January gets a spring slot. The same conversation in April usually gets July.

Some of it does. Patios and planting generally do not, while structures with a roof or posts in the ground, retaining walls above a certain height, significant grading, and anything near wetlands or a bluff commonly trigger review. Each village runs its own board on its own schedule. Whether a permit applies gets established at the site visit, before a timeline is promised.

Across the South Fork: Southampton, Water Mill, Bridgehampton, Sagaponack, East Hampton, Amagansett, Wainscott, Sag Harbor, Montauk, Westhampton, Westhampton Beach and Quogue. The office is in Southampton and the nursery and yard are in Water Mill, which is where material is staged rather than ordered in as each job starts.