Landscaping
Planting, grading and full front- and back-yard landscape design — water-wise for Southern California, and built to work with the hardscape as one plan.
The living layer, designed to thrive here
Great landscaping in Los Angeles is not about more plants — it is about the right plants, placed with intention, on a yard that is graded and irrigated correctly. The J Hammer designs and installs front- and back-yard landscapes that look composed, use water wisely, and work hand-in-hand with the hardscape.
What we do
- Landscape design — laying out planting beds, focal points, circulation and zones on a plan.
- Grading and soil prep — shaping the yard to drain and giving plants a base to root in.
- Drought-tolerant and native planting — Mediterranean and California-native palettes built for our climate.
- Drip irrigation — efficient watering that delivers to roots, not to the sidewalk.
- Mulch, gravel and DG — the ground-cover layer that ties beds together and cuts water use.
Water-wise by default
Every landscape we design now assumes drought thinking: turf where thirsty lawns were, drip-irrigated native and Mediterranean planting in shaped beds, permeable zones, and decomposed-granite paths. The result uses a fraction of the water and — done right — looks better than the lawn it replaced.
One plan with the hardscape
Landscaping and hardscaping are two halves of the same yard. We design them together so the planting frames the patios and walkways instead of fighting them, and so grading, drainage and irrigation all agree from the start. Add low-voltage lighting and the yard lives well past sunset.