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DESIGN BUILD INSTALL – We provide expert design services, experienced hardscape construction, and professional plant installation to suit your needs, your style, and your home or business. Once you have approved our design and/or estimate, we can build the hardscape features and install the plant materials in a professional and timely manner, so you can begin enjoying your new landscape or outdoor living space right away.

Landscape Design

We can create a plan that optimizes landscape design and plant selection with your needs, desires, and budget. Your design can be as simple as a single planting bed or as large as your entire landscape.

Some of the site parameters, design principles and landscape practices we consider while developing your overall plan and estimate include but are not limited to:

Your property’s site conditions: soil, sun/shade, drainage/erosion issues, etc.
The locations of utilities (underground and overhead)
The specific landscape use of different areas of your property:
- Entrances, drives and walkways used to access and navigate your house and outdoor space
- Outdoor living areas used for recreation, dining, entertaining, etc.
- Parking or vehicular storage
- Service areas for trash bins, storage, vegetable garden, etc.

Build Services

Functions: In addition to its many possible forms, hardscaping can also serve many functions in the landscape. For example, adding a paver patio creates a usable outdoor living space for outdoor furniture, grill or firepit for dining and relaxing. If a similar type of stone is also used to construct other hardscape elements in the landscape, such as steps, walkways or retaining walls, then the hardscaping provides a unifying element to all the areas of the landscape where it is used. A flagstone walkway leading from the back door of the house to a storage shed, garden area or dog run protects turf from being trod on so frequently that it cannot grow and the path becomes a muddy rut during wet weather.

Beauty: Hardscape can also add beauty to your garden, such as a decorative arbor or water feature located near a comfortable bench in a cool shaded area. It can also help to emphasize especially interesting or prized plants - a trellis for a lovely climbing vine or a section of privacy fencing as a backdrop and support for a favorite rose bush.

Durability: Hardscaping elements made of masonry or stone are durable and long-lasting. Elements of wood may not last as long as stone but are very attractive, easy to install, cost effective and, if maintained properly, can provide many years of service.

More Outdoor Living Space: Ultimately, hardscaping elements – whether masonry or wood – can beautifully augment your landscape and create more usable outdoor living space for you to enjoy year round.

If you want to add stone or wood elements to your landscape, our expert staff has the skills and experience to design and build paver walkways, stone walls, paver patios, decks, and more. Read More About Build Services >>

Landscape Installation

Whether you need new plants or are replacing existing, we can help with professional installation. We also install sod, or if you have a large area, we can seed or hydro-seed.

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

HOMEOWNERS – Does the part of your home and yard viewed from the street have curb appeal? Are your visitors able to see your front door or is the entrance hidden behind overgrown shrubs? Is everything just green and blah? Want to add some variety and interest to your landscaping but not sure what to remove or what to add? We can help. Read below for more information on our landscape installation services.

BUSINESSES – The front of your building and any hardscaping, landscaping, or signage viewed from the street is the first impression potential customers have of your business. You know what they say: you only get one chance to make a good impression. What does your sign, your walkways, and landscaping (or lack of it) say to your visitors and potential customers? Need help changing the message your landscape is sending? Read below for more information on our installation services.

Seeding/Sod Installation

Does your lawn look as good as you want it to? We offer seed and/or sod installation to establish new lawns, renovate existing ones or to patch bare spots.

When you're trying to decide whether to have seed or sod installed, there are a number of factors to consider:

Timing – Do you have time to wait for seed to come in or do you need a lawn that looks great now?
Slope – Sod is a much faster method, especially where erosion is an issue. We also offer HYDRO-SEEDING for large sites or steep slopes. (See our DRAINAGE/EROSION SOLUTIONS page for more ways to combat erosion.)
Size of lawn area – For large areas, seeding is a more economical method and HYDRO-SEEDING estimates are affordable. For smaller areas, sod is a quicker way to establish a new lawn or renovate an existing one.
Difficult areas -For some areas, turf just isn't suitable or cost effective. If you have "trouble spots" where grass will not grow, we can recommend other "non-grass" options. For example, you can have a planting bed with low-maintenance plants selected for the growing conditions of the site. Instead of a "trouble spot" with thin grass that's been costing you a lot of time and money, you can have a beautiful border of groundcovers, perennials or shrubs.
Budget – We can discuss options to meet your installation AND maintenance budgets. For example, when installing a new lawn, you can opt for sod installation in those areas where you need an attractive lawn area the most (i.e.: at the front entrance to your home or business) and seed in those areas where you can wait for it to come in (i.e.: at the side or back entrances). We can also give you an estimate for the maintenance of the new lawn and, if that doesn't suit the budget you had in mind, we can discuss other options - prior to installation - for lowering the yearly maintenance costs.

Professional Lawn Care

Don’t have time to mow? We provide professional mowing services for homeowners or businesses. We can also aerate and overseed.

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

HOMEOWNERS – We can take care of your lawn so you don’t have to. We can set up a regular schedule during the growing season to mow and trim your yard so you don’t even have to think about it. (In periods of abundant rainfall, we can mow more frequently; and if there’s a drought, we’ll refrain from mowing/trimming until growth resumes.) Read below for the lawn care services we provide.

BUSINESSES – You can bet potential customers will notice if your lawn isn’t well maintained. If you’d rather project a more polished appearance, we can help. We can mow and trim your outdoor premises to:

Give your business or organization a more uniform, professional appearance.
Keep turf healthy (which helps minimize maintenance costs).
Optimize lawn care services to suit your maintenance budget.

MAINTENANCE – We provide a comprehensive range of maintenance services to keep your entire landscape looking its best year round.

Tree Removal

If you have overgrown, damaged or diseased trees on your property that need removal, you need experts like the ones at our company. We are a professional company that caters to commercial and residential clients in and around Roanoke, VA and handle even the most complex and challenging tree removal jobs to industry standards. We are committed to providing our clients value for money and make sure that the tree is cut systematically. We will also grind the stump so that you have a clear space to use as you like. If needed, our team assesses the tree and provides their opinion on whether removal is necessary as well.

The Tree Removal Process

When you hire us for commercial or residential tree removal, our experts will visit your property in Roanoke, VA and assess the condition of the tree. In some cases where it is bent dangerously over a structure on your property, we may be able to set it right by using cables and props. It means you may not need to remove the tree at all. We have handled several similar projects in the past and have the knowledge and understanding required to tackle these jobs expertly.

In some situations, where the tree has collapsed on high voltage electrical lines or has gotten partly uprooted from the ground, our experts will remove it very safely and quickly. The team makes sure that the rest of the structures in the landscape don’t get damaged in any way when the tree removal work is being completed. Read More About Tree Removal >>

Pruning

One of the most important things you can do to keep plants healthy and looking their best.

Pruning is one of the most important landscape maintenance activities for keeping your plants healthy and looking their best.

Our pruning services include: pruning and/or trimming trees and shrubs and cutting back perennials and ornamental grasses. Read below for more information on how we can help you keep your plants looking better and living longer.

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

HOMEOWNERS – You don't need to be embarrassed by overgrown trees and shrubs. Ground Up can take care of all your landscape maintenance needs, so you won't have to spend all of your precious free time doing yard work.

BUSINESSES – We can provide all of your year round landscape needs. With over 30 years of experience, you can depend on Ground Up for professional, timely service.

Mulch

There are many benefits and many types of mulch to choose from.

Mulch can be used to cover the soil in plant beds to benefit your plants and to give a uniform appearance to your landscape OR it can be used to help retain soil in areas of drainage/erosion.

FOR PLANT BEDS: There are many different types of mulch available: hardwood, pine bark, pine needles, stone, etc. All share some common benefits for your landscape and your plants. When mulch is applied at a proper depth, it can help:

Retain soil moisture
Reduce weeds
Reduce soil compaction
Moderate soil temperature
Make planting beds more attractive

Landscape Clean-Up

Our professional team can spruce up your existing planting beds and borders with weeding, tree work, fall leaf removal, seasonal clean-up, and more.

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

HOMEOWNERS – Are weeds and fall leaves cluttering up your plant beds? Need a general spruce-up of your entire yard before winter or before spring? Need to have fallen tree limbs cut up and disposed of? Ground Up can take care of all your landscape maintenance needs, so you can spend your free time doing the things you’d rather be doing.

For those who do enjoy working in their yard but don’t have the time to do it all, we can meet with you to discuss your needs and how we can help – and the estimate is FREE!

BUSINESSES - We can provide all of your landscape needs: mowing, pruning, weeding, mulching, fall leaf removal and more. With 30 years of experience serving Roanoke, VA and the surrounding area, you can depend on Ground Up for reliable, quality services.

Drainage/Erosion Solutions

DRAINAGE/EROSION SOLUTIONS – We can custom design a solution to address the drainage or erosion issue you are experiencing with:

PLANT AND SOD INSTALLATION – Roots of trees, shrubs, and sod can help stabilize soil.
HYDRO-SEEDING – A better option for seeding large areas.
GRADING/EXCAVATING – Soil can be cut from one area and used to fill low areas to direct water away from foundations.
DRY SWALES – Shallow depressions structured to collect rainwater and give it time to seep into the ground.
RAIN GARDENS – Designed to collect rainwater and storm-water runoff, rain gardens are usually planted with plants that can tolerate periods of flooding or dry spells.
MULCH – Depending on the slope, mulch or stone aggregate can help retain soil.
RETAINING WALLS – Walls of natural stone or segmented block can help retain soil.
SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE – Below ground drainage systems can help direct water away from foundations.

Keeping water from draining and pooling under your house, eliminating pools in your yard where mosquitoes can breed, preventing your landscape plants from injury or death due to overly wet soils, alleviating erosion, and improving your lawn's appearance. Read More About Drainage/Erosion Solutions >>

Outdoor Living

OUTDOOR LIVING – Do you enjoy grilling and dining in the great outdoors?

OUTDOOR KITCHENS – Designed with built-in grills, refrigerators, ice makers or any combination of features.
OUTDOOR FIREPLACES AND FIREPITS – Enjoy the out of doors on cool evenings with family or friends.

Outdoor living includes all those elements that make it possible to enjoy more time out of doors year-round, either on your own, with family or with friends: outdoor kitchens, outdoor fireplaces or firepits, patios, decks, plantings, ponds or fountains, etc. The features that you’ll need to create your outdoor living space depend on the activities that you and your family enjoy. Read More About Outdoor Living >>

Hardscaping

HARDSCAPING – Ground Up can install or custom build a wide variety of hardscaping features to add value, function, structure, interest, variety, and beauty to your landscape. We also repair existing masonry.

DRY STACKED STONE – Add the beauty, structure, and seasonal interest of stone to your landscape.
RETAINING WALLS – Would you like more level useable areas in your yard? Are there sloped areas in your yard that are just unsafe to mow?
DECKS/PATIOS – Extend your indoor dining and entertaining space with a deck or patio that compliments your décor.
STEPS AND TERRACES – Having trouble getting around in your yard? Need more useable space for outdoor activities you enjoy?
PAVER DRIVEWAYS/SIDEWALKS – Do you have cracked, raised, or sunken walks? Are your walks too narrow?
RAISED PLANTING BEDS – Want just a small patch for vegetables or small fruits? Why not add a raised bed?
ROCK GARDENS – With or without plants, a rock garden can help address erosion on a slope.
CURBING OR EDGING – Want to give your patio, walkway, or plant beds a more finished appearance?
PERGOLAS, GAZEBOS, AND ARBORS – Vertical elements can lend support to climbers or trailing plants or provide privacy or screening to your yard.
PONDS/FOUNTAINS – If you enjoy the sound of moving water, we can work with you to add water features such as bubblers or waterfalls to your landscape.
BOULDERS – We can install boulders of various sizes as accent features to your landscape.

Hardscaping is a term used in the landscaping industry to refer to any stone or wood structure built or installed in the landscape. Stone elements may include walls (retaining, free-standing, segmented, mortared, etc.), stone steps, terraces, paver or flagstone walkways, patios, boulders, fountains and statuary. Wood elements can include decks, arbors, pergolas, trellises and fencing. Read More About Hardscaping >>

Hauling and Plant Delivery

We can haul and dispose of landscape debris (downed limbs, trees, etc.) or pick up and deliver sod or plants from a local nursery for your DIY project.

Hauling – We can haul and dispose of downed limbs, trees or other landscape debris for you.

Plant Delivery – Have a DIY landscape project but your favorite local nursery doesn't deliver? We can pick up your purchases of sod or nursery stock from your local nursery and deliver to your home within a 30-mile radius of Roanoke for a delivery fee OR, if you have us install your purchases, delivery is free with paid installation!

Excavation

Almost all landscaping projects involve some amount of excavation and digging. These tasks require proper planning and must be handled safely and expertly. Along with excavations for new landscaping and drainage installations, our company also provides similar services for landscape upgrades and extensions. We can assist you with the best solutions regardless of the nature and complexity of the task. Over the past 30 years, we have completed many projects of different types, and our team will recommend the best approach in every excavation and landscape project. We use the latest equipment and techniques in our commercial and residential projects to complete the job without any incident and on time. Please feel free to contact us and speak with a member of our experienced and skilled team about your requirements. You can rely on our skilled, knowledgeable, and proactive to deliver the highest quality services at the most affordable excavation costs.

High-Quality Excavation Services

The importance of choosing licensed and insured specialists such as us cannot be overstated. Apart from employing the necessary techniques and equipment, we accomplish each task to the highest industry standards. When you're ready to have your landscape excavated, work with a reputable business like Ground Up Inc. With over 30 years of expertise in the field, we provide clients in Roanoke, VA, and the surrounding areas with exceptional quality services.

In addition to handling all types of landscaping tasks, we offer high-quality excavation services, such as grading and site development. Before beginning the excavation, our team of professionals will undertake a thorough investigation of the space to ascertain the specific location of utility lines. They will fully consider every issue before recommending a solution for your site. Read More About Excavation >>

GIFT CERTIFICATES – Ground Up offers gift certificates perfect for any occasion or choose the landscape service you want to give.

Providing residential and commercial landscaping services in Roanoke, VA, and the surrounding area for over 30 years – contact us for a free consultation to see how we can put our experience to work for you.