Custom Landscape Designs and Installations

☼ Landscape Alternatives ☼ Transforming Imagination Into Reality ☼ Services ☼
☼ Before and After ☼ Start-to-Finish ☼ Photo Album 1 ☼ Photo Album 2 ☼ Testimonials ☼

Landscape Alternatives (a division of Blue Willow)

Landscape design is a complex process that combines the practical with the artful. In order to create outdoor areas that are useful, comfortable, relaxing and stimulating, the homeowner must create a strong visual appeal, a sense of increased space with subtle elements of surprise.

Landscaping components such as vegetation should be distributed in a balanced order of mass, colour, form and interest, establishing focal points and quite often a theme.

Landscaping your home tells the world a lot about you. Plants and structures that surround your home reflect your taste, pleasures, activities and your personality. Why tolerate a yard that isn't living up to its potential and promise?

In order to perform, a landscape must be well designed, installed and maintained. These guiding principles are essential in creating a pleasurable garden.

Whether your garden spreads out more than an acre or is located in a subdivision, Landscape Alternatives offers a complete range of services suited to your every need and adaptable to any site.

We combine innovative ideas with many years of practical horticultural experience.

We will act in your best interest and assist you by:

• determining your goals and needs
• establishing priorities and a budget
• analyzing the resource potential of the property
• suggesting cost/time saving ideas and recommendations
• providing a successful design which performs

Landscape Alternatives also offers all the essential services to implement the construction phase.

Transforming imagination into reality

At Blue Willow, our mission is to help you transform imagination into reality, expressing your unique taste and style.

We believe that beautiful landscape design results from a subtle balance between the creative and the practical. Blue Willow brings years of successful experience in achieving a harmonious balance between site constraints and budget priorities, while fulfilling our clients' needs and vision.
Whether your space is intimate or expansive, we are committed to working with you to create a personal paradise in your outdoor space.

Meticulous planning is the key to creating beautiful outdoor spaces that work - on time and on budget.

The process begins with an on-site consultation. At Blue Willow we pride ourselves on our ability to listen carefully to our clients' wants and needs and respond with innovative solutions. Since 1983, we have worked with our clients to create a wide variety of special exteriors - from serene to stimulating, intimate to formal, or any combination that expresses your taste and fulfills your desires.

We will analyze the resources of your site, help you establish priorities and suggest cost-saving ideas. We will then prepare a detailed plan to achieve your functional and esthetic goals. We also offer maximum flexibility in implementing the plan. Some clients want to do all of the installation themselves. Others want just strategic services, while others take a "hands-off" approach. It's up to you.

Before and After

Raised beds with stone retaining wall and pondless waterfall below sitting area with plantings and wood fencing.
Interlocking cut stone slabs and wood fencing and gates with wrought iron inserts and potscaping.
Swimming pool with surrounding interlocking stone deck with steps and plantings.
Stone slab steps, waterfall and pond with wood archway, fence, lighting and plants.
Second story board & batten addition with deck, stone patio, fencing, and plantings.
Interlocking cut stone patio and steps with japanese-style planting and statue.
Timberframe front entrance with stone slab steps and potscaping.
Interlocking stone walkway with stone steps and block stone retaining walls at M. residence.
Front garden with stone outcropping and spring plantings.
Interlocking brick and stone front walkway.

Start to Finish

These photos visually describe one project which included replacing the front entrance and driveway with heating coils under flagstone.

Before 1	Before 2	Design
Heating coils	Concrete delivery	Pouring the concrete
Spreading the concrete	Finish 1	Finish 2

Services

Blue Willow offers comprehensive landscape and garden design services - from concept through construction to maintenance - for residential, commercial and industrial projects.

• Stonework - Natural stone, flagstone, interlocking stone and brick, for rockeries, driveways, walks, steps, and patios.
• Woodwork - Planters, pergolas, decks, fences, gates, steps, and retaining walls.
• Planting and Vegetation - Trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bulbs, herbs, sodding and weeding, wildflower gardens and naturalization.
• Water Art - Garden Pools, waterfalls, fountains, and water sculptures.
• Other services - Includes creative outdoor lighting solutions, irrigation, grading and slope stabilization.