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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!
Bluestone retaining wall and steps planted with vibrant perennials
You Can’t Get There From Here. Grade changes in a landscape require steps and retaining walls to transition from one level to another, prevent erosion, and ensure safety. Whether quarried natural stone, brick, or concrete, they should be solid and useful. Natural stone is the most common material for landscape steps.
Step design starts with the style of the landscape and home. Steps add interest to the landscape and can make a statement at an entry, pique curiosity about the destination, or provide easy access to other parts of the landscape. Steps and stairs can be decorative, with or without rails, lit with low-voltage outdoor lighting from top to bottom, edged with plants to add color, curved or straight, with or without landings.
Correct sizing is essential. The standard formula for landscape step construction is a 6-inch riser and a 12-inch tread. However, riser heights from 4 to 7 inches can be used. The relationship between the riser and the tread should remain constant throughout the entire flight of steps. Wider steps are perceived as more welcoming and allow side-by-side climbing. They also allow for container gardens or a private spot to sit.
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A striking mix of textures artfully accented with a custom railing.
Concrete steps and boulder wall lead from the front yard to backyard.
Curving steps with stone veneer and smooth stone caps.
Elegant limestone steps with large-format treads lead to an award-winning outdoor living room.
This split asymmetrical staircase, divided by a built-in planter, leads to a saltwater pool.
Irregular boulder wall and Chilton stone steps add some rugged character to this backyard landscape in Eagan MN.
Concrete steps and a tiered retaining wall provide easy access from the street to the front door.
Stone steps cut from boulders blend right into this stacked boulder retaining wall.
A path from the front yard descends down saw-cut boulder steps past a basalt column bubbler and native perennials.
Natural stone steps with flagstone steppers.
Multiple sets of steps run up a steep slope which helps this family safely access their outdoor spaces and the lake.
Retaining walls control erosion, manage runoff, or create level spaces for entertaining and outdoor living.
Minnesota landscapes in sloping and hilly backyards. Challenging sites are no match for Southview Design's team of landscape architects, designers, and experienced construction crews.
Experts in shoreline restoration, rip-rap installation, steps, retaining walls. Luxury lake home landscaping design and construction.
Modern patio and water feature in Minneapolis Minnesota
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