Check licensing and references. Check for certification requirements in your area. This is especially true when it comes to elements with safety ramifications, such as decks and retaining walls. If certification is required for your job and your area, confirm licensure for every pro you consider. When you've narrowed it down to two or three finalists, get references from each and be diligent about checking them. If past clients are pleased, odds are you will be too.Provide helpful documents. Although your landscape pro will conduct an initial site visit and walk-through at the outset of the job, he or she will most likely need a copy of your property plat in order to start work on your design, especially if there are building permits involved. You may also be asked to fill out a questionnaire or other information sheet to help the pro understand your needs and requests as thoroughly as possible.

Alongside paths and steps on challenging shady slopes, consider rugged groundcovers like lily-of-the-valley, ginger, sweet woodruff, spotted lungwort and cinquefoil.

For a partial walk out

stairs

Steps

mudroom idea attached to garage

For front hill

Stairs, plants

pavers

The walk up to the house

Landscaper

Beautiful. Nothing else to say.

Hosta

Stairs and plants

Lovely steps

Nice brick pattern

brick corner stones to tie in front door stone

smaller rocks

Steps with plantings on each side.

cottage

Ooooooh!

pond rock along steps

* Wood Steps

Gradas con piedras grandes

I love this stairway with landscaping.

wood stairs

nice

can this be done as greenhouse in the front?

Steps

side yard

landscaping

Stepdown

Rocks and plants

Hostas in the rocks

Backyard?

Hostas and rock for front area

check this!

Plant border

Hosta

wood steps

Steps up to side of house

like this

Steps

Beautiful. I like that it curves gently

Rocks

Landscape

Love this look

very natural looking

Outside staircase

Rock landscape

Steps, landscaping, greenery

Steps

Corner Blocks

sun room

for the side of house

Side yard?

Love the stairs

around pool

garden

stairs

Stairs

for walkout

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hostas hill

hostas with rocks for under the stairs if upper deck and and astilbe for the other side of the steps

side yard and basement area

rocks

landscaping

Landscaping

Plants n rocks

stairs

Like it

Idea para jardin

like the winding path and the steps leading to the pavers

Steps

Stairs

Beautiful

walkout

hosta's

Foliage with rock

Curve back towards the house?

Pretty!

Color

no-mow use of various hardscape materials, some porous use of steps plants look low-maintenance

timber stairs nice idea

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Hostas are beautiful

Round stones

Landscape

Hostas

coggins home

Yes

landscape timbers with spardust inside treads

Rocks....balcony

Bottom platform before steps

Could work on an embankment

Hosta looks nice

Colonial

Steps

Outdoors

Host as and rockd

Bay room and steps down to patio

stone stairs

landscaping

Sunroom

dark stained planks dwn to Canal

front

great walk way!

Beautiful stone path & steps

Growth down the staircase sides

good idea for side yard by master bedroom

Sidewalk and stairs

steps and foliage for side yard

Host as & rocks to create bArder

Step

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rock

Stairs

Gorgeous!

plants

Slope

Side of the house!!

Roblox

Sleeper steps

ground covering on left side

Hostas

Outside steps & sunroom

Hostas

Stairs , possibility for land scape .

Stair idea

Railing

Steps

Ground cover left

Hostas and evergreens

Landscape

Left of stair planting

Use timbers for stairs. Love the stones as well.

terraced steps and garden room

front

Pool room look

Staircase for backyard

Steps and pavers

Large stones placed in mulch

use of rocks and steps

The stairs

Nature

wood stairs

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Pretty

Idea for side yard

Waterfall

Put by tree in backyard.

Plants

Room off the side with balcony above

the north hill

front slope idea

curving stair down slope

Walkway

Stairs

steps

Stone

Steps down Ron's hill to basement terrace

Dear...we need these steps at the back-front door to get to driveway...the ups guy /trick or treaters can't find the door!!!

drive/ approach

Outdoor

Softscape

stairs

stone

Low shrubs and hostas on retaining wall near exercise room

nice use of stones and greenery

Stairs

FORMAL STEPS

Railroad tie stairs with stones

hostas

Staircase and landscape

Walkway and shrubs

Landscaping

simplicity, use of boulders, pier atop the stair as focal point, elevation change and curved stairway

Love the window

Wide crossroad steps. Nice curves. Looks like each stair is 1 wide x 3 deep. Look up"spar dust"

pool side landscaping design with steps

Lsndscape

is it possible to build the back out like this instead of adding a deck?

Like stairs.like the curved stairs

Slope

grade stairs

I like this look and the window shape/design

Nature.

stone steps and plantings

garden path

Box out Andy window !!!

Pathway idea

Cute

When it comes to marketing your home nothing creates a better 1st than landscaping

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woodsteps

B

Garden & stairs

stairs around side of house

Backyard stair idea