"Let us help you create your own garden paradise."

--Aerin Moore, Head Designer/Owner Magic Gardens Landscaping

Our Landscape Company Offers:

• Full service design and build
• Specializing in inspired landscapes
• Custom stonework and masonry
• Co-Creations program for Do It Your Self Gardeners
• Edible Landscaping
• Over 30 years of dedication to personalized design
• A++ Better Business Bureau Rating

What to Expect

• Initial Consultation: Our first step is to meet you in your garden
• The Design Process: Explore the details of our design process
• Installation: We offer Full Service Design and build

Initial Consultation

Site Visit – Aerin Moore, Magic Gardens’ owner and head designer will meet with you in your garden. This is our chance to learn about your personal style as well as the practical and cultural needs of your site. We brainstorm on site, determining the current merits and problem areas of your space, offering design input and fresh ideas. The on-site consultation usually last 1 hour.

Nursery Visit – We then meet at Magic Gardens Nursery. Plant selection is a fun, cooperative process. Selection is based on your preferences (color, texture, plant form) and design needs. We carry over 3,000 different plants over the course of the year. We will fashion a plant list and along with you, hand-select only those plants that will flourish in your garden. The combined cost for the site and nursery visit is $150 within 17 miles of Magic Gardens in the East Bay Region and $200 within the greater Bay Area region.

Design Process

Embarking on the design process involves further site visits, nursery visits, and an extended discussion of the creative possibilities. Our designers continue the dialogue begun during the Initial Consultation, honing in until we have a clear idea of the potential scope and scale of your garden project, and its specific details.

We feel that our gardens are very personal to our clients -- as we design, we listen attentively to your desires. This includes logistical and ecological concerns, as well as all sensory elements: color schemes, sounds and scents, focal points (a special tree, a waterfall), congruity with existing architecture, and other issues of form and motif. At the end of a project we often hear "I can’t believe it, this is my dream garden!" We believe it, since we strive to simply listen to and elaborate on a client's wishes.

Depending on what’s involved, the design process can be intricate or fairly simple. We generally draft a Design Contract before fully entering the process. For clients who don’t already possess a base map of their property, we measure the site for a precise blueprint.

As we proceed, we engage in an interactive communication with you, obtaining your approval of our Design Proposal before finalizing our conceptual drawings. Your visits to the nursery to select plants help us determine the style of the garden. The final drawings are not construction plans, but depict our ideas and comprise a master plan of your new garden. All relevant elements are considered therein: structural work, grading, drainage, water features and other special features, low-voltage lighting, irrigation, and planting beds. Our planting plans are not detailed down to individual plant indicators because we ultimately prefer to compose our plant designs on the spot, in "3-D."

Following the design process, we move into the Installation Contract, providing the terms and estimates of the work to be executed, materials involved, and permits required.

Installation

Full service design and build

To realize a unique garden paradise for our clients, we can get involved in constructing a total design from the ground up.

We invite you to browse our Portfolio for a tour of our diverse gardens.

Call our office at 510-644-2351 or email us at magicgardens@magicgardens.com for further inquiries.