Plantings

Garden Beds Flowers & Plant Design

Garden beds are one of the most beautiful and impactful elements of a well designed landscape. Thoughtfully arranged flowers and plants add color, texture, and seasonal interest to your property throughout the year. Whether placed along the front of your home, around the entire property, or along property edges, our team designs and installs garden beds that enhance the overall beauty of your outdoor space while complementing the surrounding landscape.

Plantings Quality & Precision

Our plantings are created to deliver long term functionality, structural integrity, and lasting visual impact.

10+ Years of Experience

Decades of hands-on rooftop and structural construction expertise.

Fully Permitted & Engineered

Every rooftop deck is designed to meet Chicago building codes and structural requirements.

Premium
Materials

High-performance decking and railing systems built for durability and low maintenance.

In-House
Team

Consistent quality, accountability, and craftsmanship from start to finish.

Our Mulch Options

Choosing the right mulch plays an important role in the health and appearance of your garden beds. Different mulch materials offer unique benefits in terms of moisture retention, insulation, plant health, and visual style. Our team will help you select the option that best supports your plants while complementing the overall look of your landscape.

Bark Mulch
Bark mulch is a natural and sustainable option made from tree bark. It decomposes slowly while providing valuable nutrients to the soil as it breaks down. It also acts as an excellent insulator, helping regulate soil temperature and protect plant roots throughout the seasons.
Shredded or Chipped Wood
Shredded or chipped wood mulch is created from natural tree branches and wood materials. This dense mulch helps prevent erosion during heavy rain while enriching the soil with nutrients as it decomposes. It also provides effective insulation for plant roots and garden beds.
Rock or Stone
Rock, gravel, or volcanic stone mulch adds visual interest and texture to your landscape. While it is not ideal for moisture loving plants, it works well in areas with drought tolerant plants and decorative sections where long lasting ground coverage is desired.
Rubber Mulch
Rubber mulch is often used in areas where plants are not present and grass struggles to grow. It provides a durable ground covering and helps control weeds. However, due to the chemicals in rubber mulch, it is typically not recommended for plant beds where soil health is important.

Flowering Plants

Here are some of the most popular Iowa native flowering plants that benefit pollinators we include in a garden bed: 

  • Golden Alexander – an early bloomer with small yellow blooms
  • Spiderwort – an early bloom with three deep purple petals
  • Butterfly Milkweed – attracts monarchs, mid-season bloomer, yellow-orange blooms
  • Swamp Milkweed – great for wet and poorly drained areas, pink to rose-colored blooms
  • Gray-headed or Yellow Coneflower – mid to late-season bloomer, with a licorice fragrance
  • Black-eyed Susan – mid to late season blooms with tons of fall color
  • Bottle Gentian- late season with deep purple blooms
  • Great Blue Lobelia – late season with blue blooms
  • New England Aster – attracts butterflies and moths with late shorter season blooms full of fall colors
  • Stiff Goldenrods – great for cut flowers, long-lasting late season blooms full of color

Greenery / Shrubs / Grasses, Flowering and Non-flowering

Greenery can add visual interest and fill to a garden full of beautiful flowers along with a few flowers themselves. We recommend the following shrubs for your planting bed. 

  • Shrub Rose – single or double blooms in shades of pink, white, red, coral, yellow and cream. Blooms in June and then sporadically throughout the remainder of the growing season, they are also winter hardy and disease resistant. 2 to 4 feet tall and 1–3 feet wide.
  • Panicle Hydrangea – Clusters of flowers that are creamy white in color to begin and then turn a pink or blush color finally fading to tan as they die. Blooms in July and love the sun but hang on throughout the harsh Iowa winters. 8 to 12 feet tall and 7 to 10 feet wide
  • Oak Leaf Hydrangea – Clusters of white flowers appear in June and then fade to pink as they age. The leaves also change color from dark green to a lovely red in the fall. Blooms in June can sometimes be affected by a harsh winter. 6 to 8 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide
  • Smokebush – Clusters of flowers in shades of pink to yellowish-white. The leaves are often colorful and are more a purple/burgundy color rather than green. Blooms in May and continues through July and they bloom on old growth so don’t trim in the spring if you want it to flower. 10 to 15 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide

Our Plantings Process

From initial consultation to final completion, our step by step approach ensures clarity, craftsmanship, and a seamless experience from design to build.

1

Consulation

This is an onsite visit to meet each other, discuss project ideas and acquire information for the design.

2

Design

A presentation will be preformed that will include a 2D design, 3D imaging, pricing and materials pictures.

3

Pre Construction

After the contracts have been signed, the homeowners, crew leader and project manager will walk through the jobsite to ensure everyone is on the same page.

4

Installation

It is going to be messy during this time. We will keep the site as clean as possible and communicate with you while the process moves forward.

5

Final Walkthrough

After the project is completed, the homeowner and project manager will walk through the project to make sure it looks perfect.

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