Landscaping
Landscaping for a new front and back yard
New front and back yards: trees, shrubs, ground covers and flowers, stone and concrete site walls, arbors and trellises, irrigation and sprinklers.
Chapter 01
Planting a yard that has to get through a Redding summer
A new yard fails in July, not in April. The beds look fine the week they go in, and then a North State summer shows which plants were placed in the wrong light, which zones of the sprinkler system were never matched to the soil, and which walls were built without thinking about where the water goes.
So the choice in front of a homeowner is rarely which plants. It is the order of the work: where the shade comes from, where the walls and arbors stand, how the irrigation is zoned, and only then what goes in the beds. A front yard that faces the road and a back yard around a pool want different answers, and they work best when drawn as one plan.
That is how Greg Sweatt approaches a landscape. He started his first landscaping company in the Bay Area in 1982 and has more than 30 years in contracting and landscaping, so the yard is planned the way a general contractor plans a build, with the planting as the last layer and not an afterthought.
Pool framed by a pergola, planting beds and a lawn
Trees, beds, walls and water, laid out in one pass
The crew installs new front and back yards: trees, shrubs, ground covers, and perennial and annual flowers. Alongside the planting go the structures that hold a yard together, arbors and trellises, fencing, and site walls in stone, artificial stone or custom concrete. The concrete walls come from the same decorative concrete team that does pool surrounds and faux rock.
Irrigation and sprinklers go in with the beds, not after them. Putting thirsty plants and tough ones on separate zones, running drip to beds and spray only where a lawn needs it, and setting the timers to the season are the habits that keep a summer yard alive without constant hand watering.
Because the same crew also sets the pool and builds the deck, the planting is drawn around real edges: the coping, the deck steps, the gazebo footings and the fire pit. Nobody plants a bed and then discovers a trench is coming through it.
Chapter 03
Keeping it alive, and what to do next
A new landscape gets a first season of attention, then settles into a rhythm. Watch the zones in the first hot weeks, adjust the timers when the weather turns, and expect to refresh the annual color each season. If you have questions after the install, you call Greg directly, with no middleman.
Greg is on site daily and the crew stays on the same yard from start to finish. To walk your property and talk through the beds, walls and irrigation, book a free consultation and estimate, or call (530) 547-4051.
Greg Sweatt started his first landscaping company in the Bay Area in 1982. 30+ years in contracting and landscaping. Lic# 913884.
A planting schedule reads like a drawing sheet
- Trees
- Shade and structure, placed before anything else is dug.
- Shrubs
- The year-round body of the beds.
- Ground covers
- Fill the soil so it stays cooler and cleaner.
- Perennials and annuals
- Flowers that return, and flowers that change each season.
- Arbors, trellises, fencing
- Where the plants climb and where the yard closes.
- Stone and concrete walls
- Natural stone, artificial stone or custom concrete.
- Irrigation and sprinklers
- Zoned to what each bed actually drinks.
Stone and concrete walls, fire pits and outdoor kitchens are built by the decorative concrete team. The arbors, gazebos and fencing belong to decks and structures. If a pool is part of the plan, start with fiberglass pools, hear how Greg and Paula run a job, and see the financing options.