How far ahead should a landscape design project be planned?

Exscape Group schedules design-build projects roughly a season ahead, which means the best time to start a conversation about next spring is the fall before it. Design work happens over the winter, when there is time to get it right and secure materials before the season fills. A project started in April is competing for crew time that was committed months earlier.

Does the whole property have to be done at once?

Exscape Group designs the property as a whole and then builds it in phases for most clients. The sequence is set so that no phase has to be undone to build the next, which is why the gas line goes in before the patio rather than through it in year three. Phasing is decided in the same conversation as the design and the budget.

What does a landscape design project cost?

Exscape Group prices design and build projects by the scope of the work, the materials chosen, and the condition of the site. A full-property design sits well above a single feature like a planting bed or a short wall. A written scope and budget are agreed before any work begins, so the cost is settled rather than discovered along the way. Smaller one-off projects are not a fit for this team, and that is said on the first call rather than left unanswered.

Can an existing landscape be redesigned rather than replaced?

Exscape Group redesigns established properties regularly, and the starting point is what is already working. Mature plantings, good grade, and sound hardscape are kept and designed around where it makes sense. The property is walked and documented before any recommendation is made.

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Residential Landscape Design That Starts With the Whole Property

Most people come to us with one thing in mind. A patio. A problem corner. The view from the kitchen window that has bothered them for three years.

The design starts there and then looks at everything around it, because what happens in that corner decides what is possible in the rest of the property for the next decade.

What Residential Landscape Design Covers

Full-property design and installation. Grading and drainage. Plantings, beds, and screening. Patios, walkways, and the surfaces that decide how the space gets used. Structures, lighting, water, and fire worked into the plan rather than added to it. Phasing, where the property is coming together over more than one season.

Retaining wall plantings and garden beds in a residential landscape

The plan comes before the digging.

The gas line for a fire feature goes in before the pavers. The equipment path for a future pool gets settled before the retaining wall goes up. Done in the right order nobody ever notices. Done in the wrong order the patio comes back up.
You see the design and the number together.

No reveal, no build-up, no discovering the budget at the end of a presentation. This is also where phasing gets decided, if the property is going to come together over more than one season.
It is drawn for how you use it.

Where you eat, where the kids end up, which window you look out of in the morning, how often you want to be out there in October. Those answers change the plan more than any style preference does.
Two decades of work stands behind it.

The portfolio runs across Northeast Ohio with a growing body of work in Central Ohio, and the design team has been recognized by Best of Houzz every year since 2014.

How a Design Takes Shape

We walk the property with you.

Not only the corner you called about. The whole site, including the parts that will affect what you can build later.

You see the plan and the number in the same conversation.

Scope, materials, and cost together, with phasing if the property needs it.

We build it, and then we stay.

The team that installs a property keeps the account, so the people who put it in are the ones caring for it in year three.

01.

One person who knows your property.

You get a single point of contact who stays with your account year-round. Not a rotating queue, not a different name on every email.

02.

The crew serving you is based in your market.

Our branches cover Greater Cleveland and Columbus, so the team on your property is local to it. Local presence is how the company was built, not a byproduct of getting bigger.

03.

Every visit gets written down.

After a service visit you hear what the crew saw, whether it was expected or not. Property history lives in one shared system across every branch, not in one person's truck.

04.

We are still here after the install.

When the first fall arrives and you are wondering what to cut back and what to leave, someone answers. The team that builds your space is the team that cares for it.

05.

We will tell you if we are not the right fit.

If your project is smaller, we will tell you plainly rather than take three weeks to not call you back.

Design-build portfolio spanning Northeast and Central Ohio

More than 300 landscape professionals across Ohio

Founding owners still leading their markets

Certified Landscape Professional credentials on the team

Award-winning residential design-build work

No Customer Left Behind. Ever.

Exscape Group schedules design-build projects roughly a season ahead, which means the best time to start a conversation about next spring is the fall before it. Design work happens over the winter, when there is time to get it right and secure materials before the season fills. A project started in April is competing for crew time that was committed months earlier.
Exscape Group designs the property as a whole and then builds it in phases for most clients. The sequence is set so that no phase has to be undone to build the next, which is why the gas line goes in before the patio rather than through it in year three. Phasing is decided in the same conversation as the design and the budget.
Exscape Group prices design and build projects by the scope of the work, the materials chosen, and the condition of the site. A full-property design sits well above a single feature like a planting bed or a short wall. A written scope and budget are agreed before any work begins, so the cost is settled rather than discovered along the way. Smaller one-off projects are not a fit for this team, and that is said on the first call rather than left unanswered.
Exscape Group redesigns established properties regularly, and the starting point is what is already working. Mature plantings, good grade, and sound hardscape are kept and designed around where it makes sense. The property is walked and documented before any recommendation is made.

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At Exscape Group, we bring together exceptional landscaping businesses that share a commitment to people, purpose, and long-term growth. From Exscape Designs to Green Impressions, our companies maintain their local identity while gaining the support of a like-minded team dedicated to shared success.

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