In Duncan, BC, we offer a variety of yard services from landscaping design, construction, garden renovations, brick installation and more..

With 20 years of experience, our team works in a efficient manner using high-quality materials to improve the outdoor spaces of Duncan BC. With all the necessary expertise, our team serves as your one-stop shop for your landscaping project from design, installation and maintenance. If you are looking to enhance your outdoor environment, reach out to our team, for outstanding results and exceptional customer service.

Expert Duncan BC landscape services, beautiful results

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Landscaping Built for Duncan’s Terrain

Duncan and the surrounding Cowichan Valley — Glenora, Mount Tzouhalem, Maple Bay, Cowichan Bay — bring sloped lots, rockier soil, and drainage challenges that flatland landscaping crews aren’t set up for. Our team has built retaining walls, graded slopes, and installed drainage systems on exactly this kind of terrain, so the work holds up through the wet season instead of needing repairs two years in.

Landscaping Services We Provide in Duncan

Retaining Walls & Boulder Walls
Sloped properties around Mount Tzouhalem and Glenora need retaining structures that manage both soil and water. We design and build boulder walls and retaining walls sized to the grade, not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Site Grading & Drainage
Poor grading on a slope shows up fast as erosion or pooling. We grade and install drainage systems so water moves away from your home and landscaping beds instead of through them.

Artificial Turf & Irrigation
For low-maintenance lawns that still look sharp year-round, we install artificial turf paired with proper irrigation and drainage underneath — a combination we’ve used on several Duncan-area properties.

Water Features & Pavers
From backyard water features to paver walkways and patios, we handle full design-build so the hardscaping and planting work together instead of looking like separate add-ons.

Additional Services in Duncan

– Custom landscaping designs & full installations
– Garden renovations, trees & plantings
– Brick installation and repair
– Deck construction
– Flagstone & natural stone
– Landscape lighting
– Rock wall building

Why Duncan Homeowners Work With Us

We’re a licensed and insured landscaping company with 20+ years of experience, based in Nanaimo and serving the wider Cowichan Valley including Duncan, Mill Bay, and Ladysmith. Every retaining wall, grading job, and turf install is backed by the same design-build approach we use closer to home — real pricing, no subcontracted labor, and a team that shows up when they say they will.

Recent Landscaping Work in Duncan

Artificial turf and landscape/irrigation – Glenora, Duncan 2020

This Glenora property got a full landscape renovation — excavation and site prep, artificial turf installation with proper irrigation and drainage underneath, a composite deck, concrete planter, masonry-style retaining wall, and paver patio work throughout.

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Water Feature, turf and landscaping – Appaloosa Way, Duncan 2015

On Appaloosa Way, we built a stone wall and backyard pond with multiple levels, then finished the yard with new turf and full landscape construction, plants, trees and shrubs around it.

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Pond construction - Appaloosa Way Duncan landscape
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Boulder walls, pavers and landscaping – Mount Tzouhalem, Duncan 2023

This Mount Tzouhalem job replaced an aging deck and overgrown landscape with boulder walls, paver patios, a fountain, irrigation, all ready for the customer to add their own new plantings – all built to handle the site’s slope, while crafting useable spaces.

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Old landscape before renovation - Mount Tzouhalem Duncan
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Browse real backyard transformations from homeowners across the region

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Backyard
Escape

A full backyard transformation built around a pool, hot tub, and raised beds. The project included over 250 linear feet of granite rock walls to manage grade changes, nearly 2,000 sq ft of brick pavers for the driveway, landings, and pathways, plus a sprinkler system and low-voltage paver lighting for a finished night-time look.

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Waterfront
Splendour

A luxury waterfront property built into a rock face, with Mountain Ash rock walls hand-shaped for the squarest stone available, flagstone patios on both sides of the home, irrigation, and an elaborate drainage network directing water past the rock outcrop — plus a raised walkway to the private dock.

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Outdoor
Luxury

A modern low-maintenance backyard upgrade that replaced an overgrown, dated yard with clean geometric hardscaping. The scope covered excavation, a natural stone retaining wall, an architectural concrete planter, synthetic turf, custom concrete walkways, and Kichler landscape lighting — with a detailed drainage plan to handle grading around a neighbor’s mature tree roots.

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Tuscan
Gardens

A Tuscan-style property redesigned alongside the builder for a timeless, low-maintenance look. Rock walls raise the side and back gardens, a front courtyard features a water feature under a wood arbor for climbing plants, and the beds are finished with Tuscan decorative rock and boulders