Welcome to Green Valley Nursery & Landscape – We are the affordable choice for homeowners in Folsom, El Dorado Hills and the surrounding Metropolitan Area. We would like to thank you for visiting our website.

We strive to make our customer’s experience with our company both rewarding and satisfying. Too often businesses forget the value of their customers. We pride ourselves knowing that we go above and beyond the expectations of our customers. Whether our customers are purchasing the freshest and most vibrant plant material available or working with our experienced design staff to plan a backyard or landscape of their dreams, we go the extra mile.

Don has been an El Dorado Hills and Folsom licensed landscape contractor for the past 15 years. He is uniquely qualified professional that is approved with some of the most stringent Home Owner Associations in the Area – Serrano, Promontory, and The Parkway.

We are open seven days a week to serve you. Please sign up for our email newsletter to stay informed of the many wonderful events we have throughout the year, to and include our premier wine tasting events.

We believe strongly in supporting our local community!

We look forward to meeting you.

Landscape Lighting

Green Valley Nursery & Landscape specializes in the landscape lighting and professional illumination of up scale custom homes. Our expertise can be an invaluable service that can be tailored to meet your needs. We provide a complete turnkey system including design, and installation. We have the experience and knowledge to get the job done with in budget.

Professionally planned landscape lighting is essential to the total plan and beautification of your property. Security, low maintenance, economy of operation and enhancement of the landscape lighting at night must be part of the thought process when residential landscape lighting design is considered.

Proper placement of the equipment is an important part of the process. The overall color coordination of the reflective nature of the softscape and hardscape with the right color of light will make a major difference in how your property presents itself at night.

Landscape Design Services

As design/build contractors, we know that the key to a beautiful landscape is a well designed landscape plan. In this section you will find information on our approach and process. Green Valley Nursery & Landscape provides a complete menu of landscape design services. We specialize in residential garden design, from intimate small-scale spaces, to large full-scale gardens and estates.

Our Approach

Our landscape designs are client focused. We want to use your input to create a garden that meets your needs. While we try to use our experience and expertise in creating a successful landscape design, we find the best designs are those that take and enhance the client’s needs and desires for their project.

We recommend that during the process of designing, that you look at the project as a whole unit. It’s best to create a design that will take into account the entire space to be designed. This is especially true when other elements will be added at later times, or when budgeting allows. Materials, shapes and spatial arrangements should relate and complement each other well.

In our design process, we create a plan that plots all features of your new landscape. These will be used throughout the entire landscaping process.

The Process

Landscape design is an iterative process. Normally, the starting of ideas for the project are developed and revised from preliminary concepts into a finalized plan that is ready for installation. The important thing to remember is that changing and developing the design are normal and an important part of the process.

Three Phases of Landscape Design

1. Conceptual – Here is where we explore your ideas and desires for the project. For example, you are looking to add an outdoor kitchen or upgrade existing elements? Maybe to retrofit materials, such as old concrete with either stains or overlays. As we explore your ideas, we draw up 2 or 3 initial conceptual designs. These are rough draft representations of spatial organizations, and ideas for elements and materials to be included. We also start to think about the style of the garden or installation that we would like to focus on; such as Mediterranean, Formal, Contemporary or Natural, or by incorporating a particular material or type of planting like Palms. The purpose behind the conceptual phase is to explore ideas and create something to match your needs. Once this is done, we move on to the next phase, Preliminary Design.
    
2. Preliminary – Once we have a good idea of the general style and arrangement of elements we will draw up an initial landscape plan. This is the first formalized landscape design. At this point, we are starting to get a more definite idea of the materials to be used for your budget.
   
   Of all the factors in design, budget is one of the most important. A well defined budget allows us to make informed decisions based on our experience as to the choices of materials and other elements. This is our greatest value to you, we are a design and build contractor with years of experience. We are able to design your space to maximize your budget. We strongly encourage our clients to target a budget you want to spend, and then structure our design to respect your wishes.
   
   Also during this phase, we start to look at and narrow in on the plant design and material selections. It is often at this point that we will invite you down to our nursery to see first hand some of the selections we have in mind for your home.
   
   As part of this phase, we will offer to mark out with marking paint the hardscape elements of our proposed design. This will help you to visualize the finished project from a spatial point of view. The last thing we want to do is to pour your new patio, only to realize that it is too small for your needs.
    
3. Final Design – Once we have edited the preliminary design, we revise the plan to incorporate the changes and provide you with a finalized plan. This plan is important because it is often required by the Home Owner’s Associations to be submitted for pre-construction approval. This is also the plan used by our crews to install your new landscape.

At this point, we will have finalized our numbers, materials, and elements to be included in your project.

We are available for those homeowners who wish to do the work themselves to provide a design and a plan. The best advice we can give anyone, is a well designed plan will save you untold money and last minute trips.

Landscape Additions

"A garden is more than just plants and hardscape alone. Lighting, water features and special outdoor use areas, such as barbecues and outdoor kitchens can add a new dimension to your project."

• Water Features: bring the action and sound of water into the garden, and can be incorporated at a variety of scales into the design. From small precast fountains, to streambeds and ponds, we design fountains and water features created to add life to the garden.
   
• Lighting: Low voltage lighting brings the dimension of nighttime viewing and safety/access into the design. We create lighting plans to accent key features, provide lighting for outdoor use areas, a light pathways, steps and walls.
   
• Outdoor Cooking: Designing in a Barbeque and Firepit can integrate a key outdoor activity into the project and can be an upgrade over the black Weber and charcoal wheeled out from the garage.
   
• Overhead Structures: We design, build and install garden structures of all types. Pergolas, Arbors, free standing shade structures, and more. 
   
• Swimming Pools: We work with a hand select group of licensed swimming pool professionals. If you are considering a pool now or in the future, we are happy to incorporate your ideas into our landscape plan and installation.

Landscape Maintenance

Green Valley Nursery & Landscape provides superior maintenance services for decerning homeowners in Folsom, El Dorado Hills and Cameron Park. We service our homeowners with landscapes that are free of clutter and looking their very best. From caring for the smallest flower to securing the largest vista, we have the tools and know-how to maintain your landscape in it’s optimal state.

Landscape Maintenance Services

Mowing • Edging • Blowing • Pruning • Aerating • Fertilizing

Staking •  tying and guying • Applying herbicides and pesticides • Changing out seasonal color • Maintaining drainage and automatic irrigation systems • Cleaning and maintaining water features • Maintaining and adjusting outdoor landscape lighting • Trash Removal

Landscape Staging & Clean-ups

Call us to give you a fresh start with your landscape. We all know how life tugs us from every direction. Sometimes we just need a little help to get back on track. Green Valley Nursery & Landscape is here to help.

One of our most popular “One Time” services is our landscape staging. Within a day or two, we can have your home’s landscape looking maintained and ready to present itself to potential buyers.