Bay Area Landscape Designs

You can have Bay Area landscape designs that frame your property beautifully, uniquely, and durably using plants, pavers, and soothing water features. Enjoy the perfect synergy between your home and its surrounding environment. Work with our award-winning outdoor designer. Experience our standard-setting construction expertise. Call now.




Bay Area Landscape Designs Surround You with Beauty
California boasts 6,000 plant species. This part of the state is blessed with a temperate climate and optimal humidity for growing a gorgeous variety of vegetation from Yerba Buena to dwarf aster, redwood sorrel to roses. Let us help you create a custom living tapestry of textures, colors, and forms – artfully framed by inspired hardscape features.

• Build a lush, serenely lit pond by your front entryway.
• Hang a swing in the middle of a butterfly garden for a fragrant daily retreat.
• Line the sidewalk to your front door with a profusion of annuals spilling out of stone planters.
• Surround a pool with a vertical garden that works in harmony with steep terrain.

Work with a company focused on exceeding your expectations. We take your total environment into consideration when planning your project. Custom plants and hardscape complement your home architecture and scale. Various features can be played up or disguised through artful landscaping. Incorporate the right elements into the optimal environment. Topography, soil conditions, and seismic activity are factored into your plans for results that last.

Our Bay Area Landscape Designs Achieve Your Goals
What do you want your home landscape to look like? Make a statement. Blend in with the surroundings. Create privacy. Invite admiration. No matter what your aim, you have found an internationally-recognized outdoor architect who creates custom outdoor environments. Enjoy your property, your way.

• Have a formal garden with built-in stone seating areas.
• Select a meditation garden beneath a canopy of trees.
• Accentuate your home’s grandeur with stately trees and dramatic landscape lighting.
• Create a lush oasis around your pool complete with boulders, torches, ponds and bridges.
• Frame a circular driveway with lush hedging, recessed lighting and stone pavers.

World Class Design. Local Service.
Our Bay Area landscape designs are limited only by your imagination. Discuss your dream with the owner, award-winning outdoor architect John R. Rigo, in a private appointment. Let a true artist bring your outdoor canvas to life.

Create Sustainable, Sensational Surroundings
We seamlessly blend aesthetics with environmentally responsible principles. We take into account the slope, drainage and sunlight access of your property for results that work with nature and save resources.

• Encircle a recycled brick courtyard with native plants.
• Use drainage-friendly pavers that replenish the soil
• Install a passive solar swimming pool.
• Install LED and solar lighting for low-energy illumination.
• Make use of collected rainwater, drip irrigation and runoff prevention techniques.

Expert Hardscaping Frames Nature
Create defined areas of outdoor enjoyment with features such as steps, stone seating areas, pathways, and courtyards. A retaining wall with built-in lighting makes evening entertaining a special occasion. We have the equipment and resources to hew the land to your specifications, and work with you for perfect execution.

Water Features Enhance Your Outdoor Lifestyle
Our Bay Area landscape designs can incorporate an exciting array of water elements to turn your property into an exquisite, resort-like atmosphere.

• Let us craft a fantasy-worthy swimming pool and spa encircled by lush greenery.
• Create bridges and pathways between multi-level pools and spas.
• Tuck a soothing waterfall in an unexpected corner of the outside kitchen.

We offer total pool and outdoor living design in Los Gatos, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Redwod City, Atherton, Hillsborough, Saratoga, Morgan Hill, San Mateo, Woodside and Los Altos.