Landscape Design / Build

LANDSCAPE DESIGN, BUILD – AND PLANT

At Seely’s, Roger Sr., the head designer, teaches all of our designers to ask many questions before the design process begins! I.e. How many folks will you be entertaining on your patio? What is the traffic flow pattern? Would you like a seating wall to accommodate 10 or 15 people without moving a chair? Does a gas burning fire pit interest you? A kitchen? A pizza oven? Do you want a blooming sequence, a fragrance sequence? All Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter color? Do you need shade? What are your colors? Do you like red and yellow together in the garden? Does a minimum maintenance garden sound good to you? Plus a myriad more of questions.

This process insures our client’s landscape fits their dream garden with beauty, minimal maintenance as well as function. We do emphasize and integrate our wide selection of plants to enhance our construction design. This process sets us apart from our competition.

To relax on the patio in the evening, and have a fire while the fragrant fringe tree, carlcephalum viburnum or Seven sons tree is in full bloom is beyond compare.

To set up an appointment for a consultation, please call: 614-771-0011

The consultation fee is $65.00-85.00 depending on designer and project distance from our facility. We design front entrances – small and large, patios, entertainment areas, and master plans. At the consultation, we will estimate the amount of hours it will take to design your project. The cost of design time is $65.00 per hour and can be applied to the cost of the installation.

Please call us when you are ready to embark on your landscape filled with beauty, fragrance and function.

For you, our many design/installation styles include:

Japanese gardens
Formal Williamsburg gardens
Knot gardens and topiaries
English Cottage gardens
Shade and/or Sun gardens
Front Entrance Welcome zones
Conifer Collector gardens
Natural gardens
Fragrance sequence gardens

Bloom sequence gardens
Fall color sequence
Landscaping for wet/dry areas
Rock gardens and Miniatures
Water gardens, Creeks and Waterfalls
New Lawns – seed or sod
Woodland and Hillside gardens
Drought tolerant landscaping
Hummingbird & Butterfly gardens

In all styles we use:

Organic soil preparation
Composted odorless horse manure
Cottonseed meal
Azomite
Soft phosphorous

Our construction expertise includes:

Concrete paver and Brick patios, walks and driveways
Cobble Stone pathways and walks
Natural Stone retaining walls
Natural Flagstone patios
Seating walls and pillars
Flagstone patios
Stepping Stone pathways

Ponds

Formal ponds and fountains
Small water features
Natural creeks
Koi ponds
Ponds from 6’x6’ to 40’ x 40’
Natural waterfalls
Dry creeks
Pond lighting
Pondless waterfalls

Planting and transplanting of big mature shade trees and evergreens (up to 12” caliper)

Scroll down to see our Project Gallery images below!

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Project 1 : New patio & retaining wall

: Before picture – note table placement

: starting steps & retaining wall

: Walk almost done

: Stone patio & table

: Patio & steps

: Retaining wall & landscape

: Walkway through gate

: Cool spot looking down from deck

Project 2 : New patio & traffic flow

: Before – Notice no door in Jack & Jill garage

: Excavation begins removal of old cistern – notice how small the space is

: New patio showing traffic flow – 4 entrances & exits from new garage door to both house entrances

: Center entrance from garage, exit to trash area

: Cozy, gas operated fire pit

: Completed: Seating wall to seat 10-15 people, privacy cedar fence, step into garage & shade started for west side

Project 3 : New patio, seating wall, fire pit, and privacy landscaping

: Before picture

: New patio & seating wall

: Welcome to dinner!

: Overall patio with shade for south exposure

: Firepit with seating wall & stone path to new vegetable garden

Project 4 : New patio and landscaping

: Patio with pillars & seating walls (she loves daisies!)

: Circular steps

: Step out & pillars with spiral topiary

: Table & 4 chairs & pillar pots

: Colorful Garden

: Steping stone path through garden

: Along the way Hakonechloa

: Around the corner to the hosta garden

: Sun dial & 7 Sons tree in the hostas, roses & dwarf cone flower

: Looking back to the patio – not many flowers but very colorful

Project 5 : Outdoor entertainment room

: Before shot showing no steps

: Digging deep for foundation of seating wall

: Straight wall along the creek done & patio laid

: Curved wall very close along creek & new steps

: Notice the large tree for shade from evening sun

: Curved wall next to creek for privacy screening

: Seating wall for fire pit on top of retaining wall & shade for all

: New step out, patio, fire pit & privacy screen

: Fire pit, seating wall, shade & privacy screen

Stone Block Walkway Landscape Video

Project 6 : New front entrance

: New entrance with tapestry stripe

: Planting showing Yin & Yang curve of walk

: Colorful planting along the curve of walk

: Very dwarf boxwood and space for annuals & bulbs

: Pink roses will bloom under hydrangea standard

: New stoop & step with tapestry stripe

: More annuals & new Thai elephant ear

: Close-up of exotic Thai elephant ear

: New entrance framed by hydrangea tree & roses

Project 7 : Dry stream, front planting, & bench

: Warm & welcoming front entrance garden

: Pretty & practical. A dry creek surrounded by flowers & fragrance (lilac standard)

: Big rocks, medium rocks, little rocks just like in nature. with reed like plantings, evergreens & summer color

: Fragrant fringe tree on the corner, roses & evergreen boxwood

: Walk thru from the porch to the bench area

: Yellow thread cypress tree for evergreen privacy

: Resting area for morning coffee

: Shade for bench with fragrant purple sandcherry; tree form

: More privacy with thread cypress & summer color with daylilies & Incrediball Hydrangea

Project 8 : Resurrection of an old patio

: Before shot – old bricks & ivy gone wild

: Wavy old bricks, metal pond to be reconstituted & more wild ivy

: Start of new patio with tapestry stripe

: Finish patio with stepping stone entrance to bedroom

: Patio close-up

: New entrance to living room

: New planting of very dwarf Skeeters Broom Japanese maple & very dwarf boxwood, and… new old stone bench

: Planting & new fountain

: Close-up of soothing fountain & colorful begonias

: A great place to read, paint, or be creative. 200 tiny yellow winter aconites come up in March in the cracks

Project 9 : Rock garden around hot tub

: A pleasant experience, soothing hot tub & dwarf plants with character

: Colorful conifers to help create “happy & warm” feelings

Project 10 : Visit our Youtube channel for VIDEOS of many finished projects!

Natural Waterfall Landscape

Natural Waterfall Landscape Video

Natural Pond Landscape Video

Project 11 : Conifer & Dwarf Conifer Garden

: Before – tree in foreground left & lavender plant in background

: Main part of new conifer garden

: Garden building

: Soil preparation & large rock placement (notice tree)

: Path placement & garden building

: More path placement & garden building

: Finished project:

: dwarf conifer and miniature plant collection

: (notice lavender plant in background)

: Tree trunk in first before picture

: See the lavender in the background, entrance by garden building

: Many colorful dwarf conifers

Project 12 : Small spaces can be beautiful

: Mazas reptans blooming under pink dogwood at the front entrance

: Bluestone stepping stones thru mazas leading to the backyard

: From back to front showing the 7 Sons tree in the mazas

: Thunderbolt hosta greet you as you stroll by

: Small spaces can be beautiful

Project 13 : English Garden

: Entrance to garden with dwarf blue & yellow spruce, lavender & chocolate armeria

: Daisies, upright blue spruce, roses, pink bee balm, and…

: Strolling along pathway with Blue Star creeper, lavender & daisies

: Okame cherry blooms pink very early for more color

: Daisies, daylilies, bee balm, cone flower, and the yellow foliage of the Full Moon maple

: Close-up of the same & showing blue balloon flower

: Daylilies, coreopsis, hydrangea, roses, daisies, and stepping stones engulfed by Blue Star creeper

: May Night salvia, roses & triple trunk of 7 Sons tree

: Stepping along with fall flowering Sedum cauticola

: Blue Star creeper getting ready to bloom & daisies

: Blue Star creeper in full bloom

: Weigelia ‘Wine & Roses’ with Hot Pink Knock Out roses & Blue Star creeper

: Yellow Knock Out rose with lavender & Blue Star creeper

: 7 Sons tree, roses, and Blue Star creeper

: What a wonderful path to walk along!

Links to materials and products we use in our landscapes:

Unilock – www.unilock.com

Landscape pavers & stone

Iseli Nursery, Inc – www.iselinursery.com

Wholesale grower of rare conifers and Japanese maples