A back garden you will use,
drawn before we dig
Larkhollow designs and builds stone patios, planting and cedar pergolas in west Toronto, Etobicoke, Mississauga and Oakville. Scroll, and the plate comes apart to show how it is built.
Cut through the patio and the bed
Everything you walk on sits on layers you never see. They decide whether a patio stays level after its first winter.
The pergola and the plants come off first
Plants lift with their root balls. They go back into loosened, amended soil, never straight into the clay below.
Stone, then the bedding sand under it
Natural stone sits on a thin bed of sand, so each piece can be set level by hand.
Gravel base on landscape fabric
The compacted gravel carries the weight and lets water drain away. The fabric keeps it from sinking into the subsoil.
Every layer, in build order
- Subsoil
- Landscape fabric
- Gravel base
- Bedding sand
- Natural stone
- Planting bed
- Cedar pergola
Built back up, then grown in
One project lead from the yard walk to the last plant, and a care visit in the first season.
The specimen index
Plants chosen for Ontario winters: natives and hardy grasses that come back every spring. Filter by the light your yard gets and the season you sit outside most.
No specimen in this index fits both. On a yard walk we widen the list for your exact corner.
How a garden is made here
The plan comes before any digging, so you see the garden on paper first.
- 1
Yard walk
We visit, measure, and talk through how you want to use the yard.
- 2
Drawn plan
A planting and build plan you can read, with every layer and plant named.
- 3
The build
One project lead and a written schedule before work starts.
- 4
Grow in
A care visit in the first season while the planting settles.
Notes in the margin
What people ask before they book.
I don't know what I want.
That is what the yard walk and the drawn plan are for. Nothing is dug until you have seen the garden on paper.
Landscapers vanish halfway through.
One project lead stays with your garden from the yard walk to the last plant, on a written schedule.
Will it survive our winters?
Plants are chosen for Ontario, natives and hardy grasses, and we come back for a care visit in the first season.
Your Google reviews appear here
On a client's site this plate shows real reviews from their Google profile. Larkhollow is a fictional business, so it stays blank.
Yard walk request slip
Tell us about the yard. We reply by email to set a time to visit.