Back Yard Landscape Design for Living

Make your back yard an extension of your home. Create an outdoor space to live in with lush landscaping, an outdoor entertaining area, and depending on your space, a water feature.

Browse our photo gallery for ideas and scroll down to delve into our project stories. Each story takes you through a customer’s unique journey, how we tackled the project and the outcome. Perhaps a story is relatable to your project. If so, fill out the form below and let’s start a conversation.

Back Yard Photo Gallery

Landscapes for living: View our work and get back yard ideas for your landscape. We’ll help you turn your dreams into reality.

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Front entry bluestone walkway.
Front entry brick walkway and foundation planting.
Front Entry Masonry Walkway
Front entry bluestone walkway, steps and landing with white fence.
Front entry with a bluestone driveway, brick walkway and landing.
A New Approach to Driveway
Front yard stone courtyard with seasonal planters.
Front entry bluestone walkway and steps.

Front Yards

Backyard Garden Stone Path Walkway
Elegant garden planting.
Natural, scenic planting around a pool.
Perennial planting garden.
Garden filled with texture and color.
Summer flowering foundation planting.
Seasonal flowering garden design.
Lush perennial summer garden poolscape.
Front entry bluestone walkway and steps.

Landscape Plantings

Stacked stone retaining wall and perennial garden.
Stone garden steps surrounded by lush plants.
Stone garden steps and boulder retaining wall planted with flowering perennials.
Custom wood gate and a natural stone garden path.
Formal pathway through the lawn.
Natural stacked stone retaining wall.
Modern garden path.
Irregular bluestone garden path through a sea of perennials.
Brick patio with bluestone stairs and wooden arbor overhead.
Retaining Wall Boulder
Arbor with running bond brick walkway and stone wall.
Decorative arbor with picket fence and bluestone walkway.
Arbor with a bluestone walkway and garden gate.
Arbor garden covered with bright red roses.

Garden Construction

Relaxing pool with spa surrounded by summer color.
Luxury gunite pool with bluestone patio.
Enjoy the outdoors with a pool surrounded by flowering perennials.
Gunite pool with a bluestone pathway, formal hedge and vegetable garden.
Secluded gunite pool and spa surrounded by a bluestone patio with brick coping.
Gunite pool and spa with a brick patio.
Formal boxwood hedge surrounding a gunite pool.
Comtemporary gunite pool with platform wood decking.
Gunite pool with bluestone patio and artificial turf.
Lush perennial summer garden poolscape.

Pools & Spas

Summer flowering mixed patio planters.
Summer flowering mixed patio planters.
Front yard courtyard with seasonal garden planters.
Summer flowering mixed patio planters.
Summer flowering mixed patio planters.
Flowering deck planters with mixed colors.
Summer color patio planters.
Modern mixed planters for summer color in a commercial setting.
Spring planting a commercial location.
Summer planting in a commercial location.
Fall planting in a commercial location.
Tropical entry planter.
Natural planting design with annuals, perennials and shrubbery.
Annual plating for near the pool.

Seasonal Color

Backyard Before Design
Landscape Design Backyard After
Before Install Design
After Design Install
Landscape Design Front Yard Before
Landscape Design Front Yard After
Landscape Design Backyard Before
Landscape Design Backyard After

Before & After

Back Yard Project Stories

A Cozy Retreat Hicks Landscape Design

A Cozy Retreat

SERVICES: Masonry patio & steps, custom carpentry, privacy & ornamental plantings, grading & tree removal, drainage, sod repair

CLIENT BUDGET:  $70,000 +

Poolside After Photo

Stay-cation Home

SERVICES: Pool renovation, updated masonry, new outdoor kitchen/entertainment area, plantings.

CLIENT BUDGET:  $100,000+

View of Green Garden Pond

Garden by the Pond

SERVICES: Tree, shrub and perennial plantings, mulch paths with rock borders, dry riverbed, bluestone seating.

CLIENT BUDGET:  $65,000

Pool and garden view from house

Poolside Oasis

SERVICES: Steppingstone walkway, plantings, pruning, transplantings.

CLIENT BUDGET:  $30,000 +

A manmade stone river near walk path

A River Runs Through It

SERVICES: Stepping stone walkway, drainage & plantings.

CLIENT BUDGET:  $30,000 +

Poolside After Photo

Mid-Century Modern  

SERVICES: Driveway renovation & re-design, masonry, drainage, plantings.

CLIENT BUDGET: $65,000

Poolside After Remodeling

A Pool on the Side

SERVICES: Custom pool design, garden paths, border garden, screen/privacy plantings.

CLIENT BUDGET:  $100,000 +

Backyard Patio and Grass Installation After View

Cottage Patch

SERVICES: Masonry, custom fencing & gate, drainage, design & plantings. 

CLIENT BUDGET:  $60,000 +

We chose Hicks for our backyard renovation, and we couldn’t be more pleased. The job was done quickly, efficiently and absolutely beautifully. Every member of the Hicks team was friendly, hard-working, and respectful of our home and our family. When you begin a huge project, there are usually so many headaches and hassles, so many hurdles and setbacks. There was none of that with Hicks. Can’t recommend them enough.
Matthew C., Sea Cliff

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You can also stop by the Landscape Inspiration Center building in the tree & shrub yard at Hicks Nurseries during store hours.  

Thank you. We look forward to hearing from you!