Licensed landscape design-build · Burlington, Vermont
A Vermont patio should not sink after its second winter, and a new border should not wilt by August. Cedar Row Landscapes digs the drainage and compacts the stone base first, then plants for Burlington's climate.
Whether the job is a wet back lawn or a bluestone dining terrace framed by privacy planting, it starts on site with the grade and the soil. Three of the six services:
Bluestone or pavers, steps, seating walls and geogrid-reinforced walls.
from $28 / sq. ft.
Four-season perennials, evergreen screens, compost-amended beds and mulch.
from $1,850
Buried downspouts, French drains and dry creek beds for soggy lawns.
from $1,650
Cheap patios fail because the dig was shallow and the base was never compacted; new shrubs fail because the root ball went straight into heavy clay. Cedar Row Landscapes excavates to frost-stable ICPI depths over geotextile fabric, works aged compost deep into every bed, calls 811 before any dig and puts its stone and nursery warranties in writing.
Every project runs in the same order, from the first walk round the yard to the care calendar at handover. Nothing is dug before the price is fixed.
The crew meets you on the property to talk through how the space should be used, which wet spots need solving, where privacy is wanted and what investment bracket you have in mind.
You review a scaled 2D layout, hold real stone and paver samples against your siding or brick, and agree a fixed, itemised price before any turf is lifted.
Underground utilities are marked, lawn access is matted, and the compacted base and drainage go in first; trees, perennials and lighting follow. The crew stays on your job until it is done.
You receive a watering and pruning calendar written for your own plants, with optional seasonal care from the grounds crew afterwards.
Planted borders, fieldstone walls, raised beds and paths: the kinds of outdoor space the crew builds and looks after around Burlington.
Four specialists share one shop: a licensed landscape contractor, a certified horticulturist, an ICPI-certified hardscape foreman and an ISA Certified Arborist, so the plan and the build never part company.
Founder and licensed landscape contractor
State-licensed landscape contractor with a B.S. in Landscape Architecture and more than 17 years in residential design-build. Owen leads the site walks that start each job, the grading and the master plans, and sees every build through to the final walk round.
Lead planting designer and horticulturist
Certified Professional Horticulturist (CPH) and native pollinator and low-water specialist, with 11 years in residential garden design. Camila builds deer-resistant, four-season planting palettes matched to the exact sun and soil of each yard.
Our summer water bill fell by nearly a third once the shrub spray heads were swapped for drip under the mulch.
Andre B.
A muddy slope we never used is now a level bluestone terrace, and after three winters not one stone has shifted.
Harriet C.
The first spring thaw in nine years when the sump pump was not running nonstop and the side yard was not a swamp.
Simone H.
Interlocking paver patios usually start around $28 to $36 per square foot installed, and natural bluestone terraces around $38 to $52 or more. About 60% of the cost is the excavation, fabric and compacted stone base you never see.
Yes. The $395 master plan lets Phase 1 put buried downspouts, conduit sleeves and the heavy machine work in first, so later planting never means tearing up finished work.
Stonework and drainage run from early spring to late autumn, whenever the frost is out of the ground. Trees and perennials go in best from April to June and September to November.
Patios, walks, steps and retaining walls carry a 5-year warranty against settling, heaving or joint failure. Trees and shrubs carry a one-time, 1-year replacement warranty when the watering guide is followed.
Tell the crew what the yard does now and what you want it to do. The reply offers the days an on-site consultation can be made.