Our Ladue work includes front-yard landscape design, walkway installation, natural stone edging, planting beds, and grade transitions, supported by broader experience in patios, retaining walls, drainage, and hardscaping. Our local crew brings 25+ years of combined hands-on experience planning outdoor improvements around how the property needs to look, function, and be maintained.
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Homeowners often come to us with a clear idea of what they want to improve, even if every material or design detail has not been decided yet. Our crew helps turn those ideas into a complete plan, presenting layout, material, stone, and color options that fit the home and give the homeowner confidence before installation begins.
On this Ladue property, that meant creating a new curved walkway to the front entrance and building the surrounding landscape around it with natural stone edging, decorative rock, new plantings, and a small retaining wall. The result is a more defined entrance where the walkway and landscaping feel like one connected design.
Across landscape projects in Ladue, Webster Groves, St. Louis, and surrounding communities, homeowners often come to us when the entrance, planting areas, and grade no longer work together. These are three situations we regularly address.
A missing or awkward walkway can make the front yard feel disconnected. Establishing the route through the yard gives the surrounding landscape a clearer structure.
Overgrown, dated, or poorly defined beds can make upkeep harder and leave the front yard feeling unfinished. Cleaner boundaries create a better framework for stone, mulch, and new plantings.
Even modest elevation changes can affect access and planting areas. Retaining walls, edging, or grading can help organize those transitions without overbuilding the yard.
Our crew brings 25+ years of combined hands-on experience across landscape installation, walkways, retaining walls, patios, grading, and drainage on properties with very different layouts and conditions.
That experience includes front-yard landscape work in Ladue and St. Louis, patio and drainage projects in Kirkwood, slope and retaining-wall work in Chesterfield, and outdoor improvements throughout St. Louis County. When landscaping also involves grade, access, drainage, or hardscape, those conditions can be considered together instead of after one part of the project is already built.
A front-yard project can involve more than plants. Walkways establish access, retaining walls organize grade changes, drainage controls water movement, and hardscape creates the structure around the landscape. When those conditions overlap, planning them together creates a more functional property.
From help developing the plan to the work completed on site, homeowners regularly mention the communication, crew effort, workmanship, and finished results that shaped their experience with Excel Landscaping.
Homeowners around Ladue come to us for different property needs, including front-yard landscaping, paver patios, retaining walls, runoff, and grade changes. The projects below include landscape design, hardscaping, drainage, and retaining-wall work completed in nearby St. Louis communities.
Explore the recent projects below to see how those conditions were handled on real properties.
We handle front-yard landscape renovations, planting beds, natural stone edging, decorative stone, new plantings, walkway connections, and landscape designs that incorporate grade changes or retaining walls. The layout is planned around the property and what the homeowner wants to improve rather than starting with a preset landscape package
Planning a front-yard project? Explore our landscape design and installation services or talk to our team about your Ladue property.
Retaining walls are used where a change in elevation needs more structure around planting areas, lawns, walkways, or other outdoor spaces. The wall is planned around the grade and the way the homeowner wants to use the surrounding landscape, so it becomes part of the overall layout rather than an isolated feature.
Looking to build a retaining wall, contact us and we’ll take it from there
Yes. Our crews complete landscaping and hardscaping projects throughout the St. Louis area, including University City, Webster Groves, Kirkwood, St. Louis, Town & Country, Chesterfield, and surrounding communities.
