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Best landscaping in Minneapolis: Award-Winning Designs for your outdoor living space
Throughout the Twin Cities, Southview Design landscaping customers are enthusiastic about referring us to friends, neighbors, and family.
Comprehensive, professional landscape maintenance, gardening, and lawn care in Minneapolis, MN
Reliable, professional, full-service gardening, lawn care, mulch, spring and fall cleanup.
Our professional Minneapolis garden designers create custom window boxes, containers, and beds for spring.
It's time to schedule spring landscape care. All services include a free consultation with a landscape manager – get answers to your lawn and garden questions!
Burly boulder walls that hold back tons of earth without breaking a sweat.
To manage sloping hills, modular block walls can be curved, straight, or tiered; formal or informal.
Seat walls are a convenient seating option in the Minnesota landscape design around a patio or fire pit.
Natural stone creates an old-world look. Some stacked stone walls have lasted for centuries.
Retaining walls add visual interest and are often used to control erosion, manage runoff, or create level spaces for patios, gardens, or structures. They can also sculpt the landscape and transform unusable hills into spectacular outdoor living spaces.
Not everyone understands how to plan or build a retaining wall correctly. Mistakes in the design or construction of retaining walls can create severe headaches (particularly water problems) for you or your neighbors. Southview Design brings superior landscaping expertise to every project, often solving problems in advance that competitors don’t foresee.
Our Minneapolis landscaping team excels at building outdoor living spaces on steep hills and challenging shorelines.
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BENEFITS OF RETAINING WALLS
Retaining walls add depth and dimension to any landscape, creating a striking focal point while seamlessly blending with your outdoor environment. Whether using natural stone, concrete block, or boulders, they provide structural support while enhancing aesthetics. Thoughtfully designed walls can define garden beds, frame patios, or accentuate elevation changes, turning slopes into eye-catching features.
On Lake Minnetonka, the stacked limestone retaining wall creates a level space for a swimming pool and expansive patio.
Two-tiered formal block retaining walls add curb appeal to this home.
Boulder wall and cut stone steps lead guests from the front yard to the backyard at a lower elevation.
Modular block retaining wall with naturalistic texturing and integrated lighting.
Tiered retaining walls correct the yard's steep grade and enhance it's functionality.
Classic brick seat wall in a historic formal garden in St. Paul Minnesota.
Minnesota’s changing seasons bring heavy rains, snowmelt, and shifting soil, making erosion control essential. Retaining walls prevent soil displacement by stabilizing slopes and directing water runoff safely. Engineered drainage solutions, such as weep holes or gravel backfill, help manage excess moisture, reducing the risk of flooding, soil loss, and foundation damage while keeping landscapes intact.
Burly granite boulder retaining wall and paved trail leads to the shoreline.
An impressive glacial boulder retaining wall in the Northwoods.
This hillside backyard landscape makes use of both boulder and modular block retaining walls.
Sloped properties can limit usable yard space, but retaining walls transform uneven terrain into functional areas for patios, gardens, or swimming pools. By leveling out land, they maximize your property’s potential, making outdoor living more enjoyable. Whether building terraced gardens or expanding a backyard retreat, retaining walls create more accessible and visually appealing spaces.
Elegant stacked limestone retaining wall is essential for creating this level backyard for sports and games.
A modern backyard in St. Paul features corten steel walls with an eye-catching garden.
Boulder retaining wall creates a level area for a swimming pool in this Eagan, MN backyard.
Your perfect outdoor living space begins with a simple conversation. Let’s talk about your outdoor living space!
When their neighbor’s yard transformed from a hill of dirt into a terraced backyard, this homeowner decided it was time to make some changes of their own.
Designers overcame several unique challenges to squeeze a deck, pool, and patio with fireplace onto this compact lot in Excelsior, MN.
In just 10 days, Southview Design transformed this Eden Prairie landscape into an idyllic setting for a wedding.
Following a major remodel, this Lake Minnetonka bungalow needed a landscape upgrade to match. Now, after some serious TLC, this Excelsior, MN, home on the bay is the jewel of the block.
2023 AWARD WINNER – Retaining walls transform a featureless slope into a multi-level backyard resort with a swimming pool, patio, wood-burning fireplace, and hot tub.
A 2022 North Central Region CotY (Contractor of the Year) award winner. Located high on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River Valley, this million-dollar view was the perfect backdrop for the entertainment hub the clients always dreamed of.
Permits and plans take time. Start now to enjoy your outdoor space this season.
With warmer weather, homeowners are reaching out. Don't get stuck in the rush.
A quality outdoor living space adds joy now and long-term value to your home.