PETER ATKINS AND ASSOCIATES., LLC

13 Reviews

Landscape Contractors

5x Best of Houzz winner

Family owned

27 years in business

About Us

Best of Houzz x5

Peter H. Atkins, CPH is a landscape architect/designer, horticulturist and plantsman. The business is an accredited North East Organic Land Care (NOFA). When organics are consistently used on your lawns and landscape, we protect your family, pets, soil and water from chemical imputes and synthetic fertilizers. We are asked often do organic properties look as good as chemical landscapes? Absolutely. With proper planting and an organic maintenance program, our organic properties are just as lush, colorful, and thriving as traditional properties. The only difference you will notice is the plethora of pollinators and birds that can safely visit your organic property. We design, build and maintain ecological landscapes that offer permaculture design, edible landscaping, native and drought tolerant softscapes and watershed friendly hardscapes. From nuts to bolts (hardscape) and roots to shoots (softscape). We offer expertise in sustainability, organics, permaculture, drought tolerance, and native plant knowledge. We pride ourselves on our versatility, designing, installing and maintaining all styles of landscapes, from naturalistic, woodland, meadow and coastal communities to more formal and traditional gardens. Peter Atkins has been at the forefront of the green movement and we continue to provide consultation, installation and ecologically informed and sensitive care for all types of native and natural plantings. We offer a variety of garden restoration and gardening services, including complete garden restoration projects with planting plans for herbaceous borders and mixed borders to new specimen trees to vegetable gardens. With an in-house masonry staff, we provide a diversity of masonry applications with outstanding results. Whether it is matching existing masonry work, new work or historical restoration our masons have the vision and experience to seamlessly create a stunning hardscape. We take pride in caring for the landscapes we build—and that’s important to us because we want to preserve your investment.When you are looking for local gardeners, we operate in small teams who work with an accredited horticulturist who supervises all work activity. We also offer organic lawn care and total property management at top value.

Services Provided

Arbor Design and Construction, Artificial Grass Installation, Automatic Gate Installation, Brick Masonry, Brick Repair, Chain Link Fence Installation, Custom Fire Pits, Custom Putting Greens, Drip Irrigation Installation, Driveway Gate Installation, Edible Gardens, Excavating, Fence Installation, Garden Design, Gate Installation, Gazebo Design & Construction, Green Roofing, Greenhouse Design & Construction, Hardscaping, Hedge Trimming, Holiday Lighting, Irrigation System Installation, Landscape Construction, Landscape Lighting Installation, Landscape Maintenance, Lawn Aeration, Lawn Care, Lawn Mowing, Lawn Seeding, Lawn Treatment & Fertilization, Living Walls, Masonry, Mulching, Organic Gardens, Outdoor Kitchen Construction, Patio Construction, Paver Installation, Planting, Pool Landscaping, Retaining Wall Construction, Site Preparation, Sod Installation, Stump Removal, Tree Planting, Tree Pruning, Wood Fence Installation, Landscape Property Management, Organic Vegetable and Herb Gardens, Project Management, Water Garden & Fountains

Areas Served

Bedford, Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, North Stamford, Pound Ridge, Poundridge, Scotts Corners, Stamford

Awards

Accredited North East Organic Land Care. (Organic Lawn Care) Accredited Ecological Horticulturist Accredited Landscape Designer Custom Grounds Supervisor

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13 Reviews for PETER ATKINS AND ASSOCIATES., LLC

John Zimmerman

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Client

When I contacted Peter he was enthusiastic about our smallish project to renovate the circle area of our driveway. In the late winter we met and spoke about the goals. After a careful review he gave us a quote which was reasonable and filled all our desires and more for the project. I would reservedly recommend using him for a landscaping project. In fact there are other areas of our property that we may work on with him in the future. (The actual cost was at the very low end of the approximate cost range.)

May 5, 2019

Comment from PETER ATKINS AND ASSOCIATES., LLC:

Thank you John
My passion is ecological projects. This was a creative and very fun job. My pleasure working with you both.

Andrea Peattie

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Client

Peter took care of a very personal garden area of mine and always made it beautiful. He is very flexible with ideas and budgets and continually created just what I wanted. He is very reliable, completely knowledgeable and I feel has a great love for his work. I would recommend Peter highly.

April 28, 2018

Laurance Baschkin

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We have known Peter for a couple of years as we live in the same small quiet town. I had no idea he was involved in grounds maintenance. My only complaint was not calling on him sooner. He and his crew did an amazing job cleaning up our 1.5 acre yard and the cost effectiveness was well worth it. Much appreciated.

January 11, 2017

Naturalist

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Client

After trying multiple landscapers in the area, we finally found Peter Atkins four years ago and we have been happy ever since. Peter understands our sensibility and our desire to have a natural garden in a woodland landscape. Everything he has planted is organic and native to the area. His design is directed by his artistic instincts and the land itself. He respects and has a natural affinity for the property. He designed, planted and diligently maintains our fern, vegetable and herb gardens. Additionally he has designed, planted and maintained a variety of flower gardens and walking paths, completely transforming the way we appreciate our property during every season. We highly recommend Peter and his team.

January 31, 2016

ahappyclient

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Client

Peter Atkins is a perfectionist who cares passionately about design, quality, and doing things the right way. He is attentive to every detail that goes in to creating and maintaining a beautiful garden and landscape. Peter designed a vegetable/flower garden--including fencing, raised beds, birdhouse, berry patch, etc.,-- that is completely harmonious with our topography and architecture. He was easy to work with and has a maintenance staff that is second to none. We were so pleased with this project that we now rely on Peter not only to care for our vegetable/flower garden, but to oversee the maintenance and care of all trees and shrubs on our property. Under his careful watch and pruning, he has upgraded our property and we couldn't be happier.

January 17, 2016

Gracie's MomDad

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Client

Peter Atkins is a rare treasure. He came into our lives this past summer and transformed our property. We have been struggling with plantings for 28 years. This man is so talented, creative and knowledgeable! His crew is very competent and well supervised by Peter himself. Not only does this firm do installation but ongoing maintenance as well. Peter is very generous in pointing out issues on the grounds that don't necessarily fall under his purview e.g. infestation in the Hemlocks, leaves falling from the specimen trees mid- summer. We have found Peter extremely responsive to calls, emails.

November 11, 2015

alfielove

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Colleague

After working with Peter for 2 years as a freelance designer – I hold him in high regards as a person and a businessman. He is true to his word, prompt and very knowledgeable in all aspects of the field of landscape - plants and horticulture and design. Peter stands out in a field where unanswered phone calls, unprofessional workmanship and knowledge is unfortunately common.

October 8, 2015

James Mattews

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Client

"We hired Peter Atkins and Associates after using another landscape maintenance company for almost five years until we listened to our neighbors. The difference is obvious! Peter's business provides impeccable garden landscape services. Peter teams are flexible, hard working and extraordinary capable.. It is very clear that his employee have been trained by Peter as they are detailed oriented and go the extra mile to make our property special. Peter is always on the job site, he is the type of person that truly wants to do something nice for you. Choose Peter Atkins and Associates if you want an ethical and reasonable company to work with. Thank you for your patience and gentle guidance from start to finish, all of which made the process fun in my perennial garden again. I promise you, you will be thrilled that you hired him"

September 15, 2014

gaocean11

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Client

Peter H Atkins took a falling vegetable garden and turned it into the center piece of our yard. Now I have an abundance of healthy and delicious vegetables as well as beautiful focal point of various hues and texture. We have over 15 varieties of vegetables and herbs to make any chef envious! This has been a wonderful company to work with and far exceeds my expectations. Communications was easy and their work outstanding. We have limited space and not a "green thumb" so it was terrific for Peter and his teams to design, set up, plant and maintain our gourmet vegetable garden. We got the satisfaction of growing an abundance of our own veggies!!!! Peter continued to communicate with us weekly as to what was ready for harvest, what plants were planned for the garden and if there were problems with the garden, they were dealt with swiftly and he always told us what was going on. I would recommend Peter H. Atkins and his staff to anyone and will definitely use them again next year

September 13, 2014

ssh35

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Client

Sophisticated gardens, great veggies, great people! Thanks Peter, we have had a thriving vegetable garden for two years that produces wonderful fruit and vegetables that taste so much better than I can buy in the store. My garden is a work of art! The garden was completely setup for us and maintained by Peter Atkins and Associates. We have been really impressed with the knowledge, enthusiasm and diligence of your business on every level. I love it that we can always try new vegetable varieties the following year. Clearly you have a “big green thump” and love what you do. Thank you.

August 31, 2014

marksongbird

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Client

“We have been clients of your firm for over 10 years. Your firm has always provided an extraordinarily high and professional level of service and attention. We love the fact that the business is accredited NOFA-Organic Land Care which provides us with peace of mind with our children and our dogs. Our large property and houses require Peters expert gardeners who are at our house a few days a week. His teams do our landscaping, maintenance, tree and shrubbery preservation and provide constant attention to his vibrant outdoor planters and the perennial and shade gardens. We are delighted with the care, imagination and expertise you bring to these tasks. As a person, Peter has a real understanding of a client’s needs. Always making projects his own. Attention to detail with a real sense of practicality is a real hallmarks of a great designer. He has both of these characteristics in spades”.

August 23, 2014

mtwholton

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Client

Peter Atkins transformed my yard into an oasis of beauty, The landscape he designed is fresh and beautiful and not overly mannered. I would recommend him to anyone!

August 20, 2014

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Commented: Love the irregular flagstone!Installation with irregular flagstone typically takes little less time as you are essentially installing a large gig saw puzzle. The pieces are larger and so are the joints so putting this together is...

March 16, 2016

Commented: Name of grasses?Cortaderia selloana ‘Andes Silver’ True Hardy Pampas Grass Popular in home gardens since Victorian times for their stunning flowers and architectural form, the modern dwarf Pampas cultivars have great...

October 26, 2015

Commented: Please name the plants on each side of the walkway. I know the hostasGoats beard white Astilbe Ligularia " midnight lady" Anthony waters spirea Hydrangea lace caps New port boxwoods Fringe tree Carex (grass) "sceptre" Japanese sedge Hosta (don't rem...

May 27, 2015

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