Landscape Architects & Designers Near Los Gatos

“We worked with David on our landscaping redesign - a complete refresh after 30 years. He’s excellent to work with, creative, practical, and listens to what you want to accomplish. Our design process was quite smooth and his organized approach (he identified all steps of his process in advance) lets you know what’s next and how he will approach your project. He even assisted in suggesting some contractors and reviewing bids to ensure we were getting good quotes. We’re now in the implementation stage and will be engaging David to help us realize his beautiful design. I highly recommend Stroke of Nature for your landscaping project.”

“Twenty-eight years ago, our family was fortunate to find a great landscape designer and a great plant visionary to transform our backyard. We followed that project shortly afterward with a partial transformation of our front yard, using the same plant visionary who selected plants suitable for our neighborhood next to Almaden Quicksilver Park. As time and deer performed their own transformation, it became necessary to look for a new landscape designer and a new plant visionary, as the professionals with whom we worked more than a quarter century ago no longer were available. After a couple months of searching, we came upon Robin Salsburg and her business, Vision Garden Design, who we selected to redesign our front yard and facelift our backyard. Robin proved herself both a great landscape designer and a great plant visionary, consistent with her business name. As time and deer performed their own transformation, it became necessary to look for a new landscape designer and a new plant visionary, as the professionals with whom we worked more than a quarter century ago no longer were available. After a couple months of searching, we came upon Robin Salsburg and her business, Vision Garden Design, who we selected to redesign our front yard and facelift our backyard. Robin proved herself both a great landscape designer and a great plant visionary, consistent with her business name. Robin prepared detailed drawings, which were easy to understand, and gave us fun homework assignments when it came to selecting plants. There were a lot of species and varieties to consider, and Robin made it simple for us to pare down the number of plants by noting which ones we loved, which ones we could live with, and which ones we hated. When it finally came time for us to implement Robin’s final design, we asked her to recommend landscape contractors, and then (with her assistance) interviewed four firms. We eventually settled on K&D Landscaping, and asked Robin to oversee the project to ensure her vision was fully implemented. Robin met weekly with the contractor and us, and after two months of construction the project came out even better than her wonderful two-dimensional drawings promised. We have worked with many design professionals, and we can wholeheartedly say that Robin is among the very best. She focused on our best interests throughout the design and construction phases. Looking back on the project, we feel as fortunate as we did 28 years ago, perhaps even more fortunate because Robin has made our front and backyards better than we ever dreamed.”

“Hiring Rebeca Dye and her husband Hank Helbush of Design Focus International was one of the best decisions we have ever made. After detailed consultation with Rebecca and Hank, we decided to have them completely restore our fifty year old acre that had a large driveway being raised with roots, irrigation that no longer worked, fences falling, concrete sidewalks around the entire house coming up with some of it falling in our pool, old shrub roots running all over the place and decks that were rotten in some areas, Our lot has a slope, and very important to us was that the drainage was addressed and made perfect. I knew Rebecca and Hank could do beautiful work from seeing their work online and going to past projects, but working with them on this big job that required so much major work went beyond our expectations. The job was not only a big one but at times required some big changes or adjustments, and through the entire project Rebecca and Hank oversaw the work and easily made the adjustments so that the project went very well taking all the stress of the project off my husband and me. Each contractor who did the work was excellent and on time. At one point we had to replace the worn, exterior plywood siding on our entire house, and an excellent contractor, who we never would have been able to get on our own, was called in by Rebecca to do beautiful new siding and decking. Rebecca, Hank and everyone who worked on the job were very pleasant to work with, and if a question arises now, Rebecca or Hank get back to us immediately. Almost every day a neighbor walks by to tell us how much they like the beautiful flowers and the incredible night lighting with lights designed by Hank hanging from trees. Their guidance from concept to construction was invaluable. A special treat for me is that I have been introduced to drought resistance shrubs and flowers that I adore and never knew existed. The entire result of hardscape and flowers, shrubs, etc. is so beautiful and beyond anything we imagined.”