Coronado · Point Loma · San Diego
Coronado homes,
planted by hand.
Landscape design, installation, and maintenance from a small Coronado team. Brazilian roots, a decade of local work, every yard touched by Samuel himself.
CSLB License #1152146 · Bonded & Insured
What We Do
A few things,
done well.
We design, install, and maintain residential landscapes in Coronado and Point Loma — and we keep showing up. Most of our work comes from neighbors who watched us tend somebody else's yard for a few seasons.
If you want a designer who hands you a rendering and disappears, that's not us. Samuel walks the property himself, draws the plan, plants it, and comes back to prune it.
See the servicesYears in Coronado & Point Loma
A decade of work on the same blocks across the island and the peninsula.
Owner-Tended
Samuel touches every property. No subcontracted crews.
Photographed Projects
A real portfolio you can browse. Not stock images.
Services
From a one-time install
to a yard you never have
to think about.
Landscape Design & Construction
Hand-drawn plans and full installs — built around how you actually use the yard, the microclimate, and what won't fight Coronado's salt air.
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Commercial & Residential Maintenance
Standing weekly or monthly visits for homes and commercial accounts. The property stays the way it looked the day we finished planting it.
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Turf Installation
Locally-sourced fresh sod and quality artificial turf. Properly graded and prepped — we don't lay turf on a base we wouldn't sleep on.
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Irrigation Installation & Design
New irrigation systems and surgical fixes to old ones. Drip conversions, smart controllers, leak detection.
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Hardscape
Patios, pavers, walkways, retaining walls, fire pits — the bones of a yard you'll use every day.
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Landscape Lighting
Path lights, uplights, and step lights. The yard works at night, not just at noon.
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Coronado
The right tree, kept the right way, is the whole project.
Recent Work
Real Coronado yards.
Every photo here is a project we've installed or maintained. No stock library. No renderings.
Who Tends Your Yard
Samuel Fortes.
Owner. Designer.
The one in the yard.
Samuel grew up on a farm in Brazil and brought that hands-in-the-soil sensibility to Coronado. A decade of work in this salt-air pocket of San Diego taught him what thrives, what dies trying, and what's worth saving.
Every estimate is a conversation with Samuel. Every install has Samuel on site. Every maintenance visit either has Samuel on the property, or Samuel checking the work.
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"We're trying to make every yard feel like a more comfortable version of the house — somewhere the family actually wants to be at 6pm on a Tuesday."
— Samuel Fortes, Founder
Where We Work
Coronado, Point Loma, and the rest of San Diego.
We turn down jobs we can't get to weekly — that's the trade-off for showing up when we say we will.
Free, no-pressure consultation
Tell us about your yard.
Samuel walks the property, listens to what you want, and tells you honestly what we'd do — and what we wouldn't.