A Commercial Landscape Design Company Built for Architects, Civil Engineers, and Land Developers
Licensed Landscape Architects in 43 States Since 2005
Evergreen Design Group (EDG) is a commercial landscape design company for architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors. Teams call us when a project cannot absorb a delay. Since 2005, our licensed landscape design architects have delivered land planning, planting plans, hardscape plans, and irrigation design for multi-family communities, mixed-use developments, and large commercial sites. We hold landscape architecture licenses in 43 states. Our team works remotely across the U.S., and our headquarters is in Bluffton, SC.
As a national landscape architecture firm, we coordinate planting, hardscape, and irrigation sheets with your civil set and with each jurisdiction’s review standards. You receive permit-ready drawings from a team working beside your engineer from the first concept sheet.
7 Reasons Development and Design Teams Hire Our Commercial Landscape Design Company
1) Commercial Landscape Architecture Experience Since 2005
EDG has delivered commercial landscape architecture since 2005 on projects of every scale. Work ranges from permit-level planting plans to multi-phase master-planned communities with hardscape, grading coordination, community amenities, and full irrigation design.
Experience cuts review cycles. Our landscape architects have coordinated planting plans, grading, and irrigation documentation with civil engineers and architects on single-phase commercial sites and multi-phase communities. The work requires native and climate-adapted planting palettes, jurisdictional review coordination, and a constructability check at every stage.
2) Responsive Communication Through Every Phase of Your Project
Every project gets one named lead who stays on it from the first site visit through jurisdictional submittal and construction-phase coordination. A revision request goes straight to that person, not into a queue that routes through an account manager first. When a permit reviewer sends back a comment three days before your resubmittal deadline, you are emailing someone who already knows the site, not re-explaining the project from scratch.
3) A Flat Structure That Speeds Up Decisions and Revisions
Evergreen Design Group runs with a team of roughly 18 landscape architects, designers, and irrigation designers total, covering commercial, multi-family, and mixed-use work in 43 states. That size keeps decision-making close to the drawing board. A plant palette substitution or a grading conflict gets resolved on a call between your project lead and the landscape architect who drew the sheet, not routed through a committee.
4) Licensed Landscape Architects in 43 States, One Point of Contact
As a commercial landscape design company licensed in 43 states, EDG spares your program from hiring separate landscape architect firms in each jurisdiction. You work with one point of contact and one set of plan standards.
We are licensed to practice landscape architecture in these states:
- Northeast (6): Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
- Midwest (11): Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin
- South (15): Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
- West (11): Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington
We apply for additional state registrations as a project requires.
Each state sets its own licensure rules. A candidate needs an accredited degree, supervised experience, and a passing score on the Landscape Architect Registration Examination (L.A.R.E.), then applies through the state licensing board. Licensed landscape architects answer for public health, safety, and welfare on the plans they prepare. Review the state-by-state licensure requirements published by CLARB.
If you manage a national development program or work across several regions, EDG serves as your single-source landscape architecture partner.
5) Lower Onboarding Costs Across Multi-State Programs
Multi-state programs carry a repeat cost. A developer running projects in four or five states pays for onboarding, CAD standard setup, and plan-format training each time a new landscape architecture firm joins the program. EDG's 43-state licensure removes the repeat. Hiring one commercial landscape design company for the whole program means your civil engineer, contractor, and internal team work with one plan format and one CAD layer structure in every state. You build the process once instead of three or four times.
6) Jurisdiction-Specific Plan Review Knowledge
EDG tracks jurisdiction-specific requirements during daily plan production. Review standards differ by jurisdiction, and the differences change what goes on the sheet. In northeastern Illinois, projects inside the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago answer to the district's Watershed Management Ordinance. In Texas, irrigation design follows the TCEQ landscape irrigation rules in 30 TAC Chapter 344. A plan set headed to Cook County goes through a different review checklist than one headed to Wake County. The team producing your drawings knows which checklist applies before the first submittal. Tree preservation ordinances, landscape and screening codes, and impervious surface limits vary by jurisdiction too, and the team confirms each before design starts.
7) Cost-Conscious Design From Concept Through Construction
EDG's landscape architects review each design from the contractor's side of the bid table. They look for ways to lower construction cost, simplify installation sequencing, and reduce long-term maintenance expense. A planting plan with zones grouped by water demand installs faster and costs less to maintain. A hardscape layout built on standard material dimensions cuts waste at the saw. Your client's budget stays protected, and the contractors who bid your project get drawings they price without guessing.
How Our Design Approach Reduces Rework on Commercial Sites
EDG reduces rework by designing against your entitlement conditions, civil grading, stormwater requirements, and the jurisdiction’s review process from the first concept sheet. Landscape architecture drawn without those constraints creates rework for you and for us.
Evergreen Design Group’s landscape architects work directly with your civil engineer and architect of record to develop planting, hardscape, and irrigation documentation that coordinates with grading plans, utility routing, and phasing sequences from the earliest concept stage. We build in the flexibility to adjust plant palettes, hardscape materials, and amenity programming as entitlement conditions or budget targets shift, without forcing a redesign.
On a typical commercial project, that coordination runs in four stages:
- Concept review: we align on site constraints, grading intent, and jurisdictional requirements with your civil engineer before drawing a single plant symbol.
- Coordinated documentation: planting, hardscape, and irrigation plans are developed against the same base sheet as the civil and architectural sets, so utility and grading conflicts surface early.
- Constructability review: every design element is checked against install sequencing and maintenance cost before it reaches your bid set.
- Permit and RFI support: we respond to agency comments and RFIs through entitlement and permitting, not only at plan submittal.
The result is a plan set reviewed for constructability before reaching a contractor’s bid table, with code-compliance items resolved and long-term maintenance cost weighed in the design.
Landscape Architect Services for Developers, Civil Engineers, and Architects
EDG is a commercial landscape design company offering land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design to professional clients in 43 states. Landscape architecture includes tree disposition plans, planting plans, community amenity design, and hardscape plans.
We coordinate site feasibility, conceptual layouts, and regulatory approval strategy directly with your civil engineer’s base drawings from the first site visit. That coordination keeps your entitlement submittal aligned with grading and stormwater requirements instead of catching conflicts after the fact.
We survey existing trees, document which ones meet preservation ordinance requirements, and flag removals before your site plan goes to jurisdictional review. Getting this right up front avoids a stop-work order over an undocumented protected tree mid-construction.
We produce both permit-ready plans that meet the jurisdiction’s landscape and screening code and enhanced design-build plans for developments where the planting palette carries marketing weight. Both versions track the same base drawings, so a code-compliance revision doesn’t force a redesign of the enhanced version.
We design code-compliant, water-efficient irrigation systems sized to the site’s plant material and climate zone, not a generic template. Systems follow state-specific rules, including the TCEQ landscape irrigation rules in 30 TAC Chapter 344 for Texas projects.
We design pools, clubhouses, recreation areas, and outdoor living spaces as part of the same plan set as your landscape and hardscape drawings, so amenity locations respect the same grading and utility constraints instead of getting bolted on separately.
We design walkways, plazas, retaining walls, and site features with impervious surface limits and stormwater capture in mind from the start, which is often what determines whether a hardscape layout gets approved on the first submittal or bounced back.
Clients: Developers, Civil Engineers, Architects, and Design-Build Contractors
EDG serves developers, civil engineers, architects, and design-build contractors. We do not take homeowner projects.
Since 2005, our project experience has included urban parks, mixed-use developments, and commercial sites across 43 licensed states. Clients return for direct communication with the people doing the design work, documentation coordinated with the civil set the first time, and delivery held to the schedule agreed at kickoff.
If your project needs a commercial landscape design company licensed in your state, send us your civil base plan, jurisdiction, and target submittal date. We will scope your land planning, landscape architecture, or irrigation design project against those inputs. Request a proposal.
Commercial Landscape Design Company FAQ
What services does Evergreen Design Group provide as a commercial landscape design company?
Evergreen Design Group provides land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design for commercial and mixed-use projects nationwide. Landscape architecture services include tree disposition plans, planting plans, community amenity design, and hardscape design. Every deliverable is prepared by a licensed landscape architect and coordinated with your civil engineer and architect of record.
In how many states is Evergreen Design Group licensed to practice landscape architecture?
Evergreen Design Group holds active landscape architecture licenses in 43 states, with the ability to obtain additional state registrations as project needs require. A single firm can serve a multi-state development program instead of coordinating separate local landscape architects for each site.
How does Evergreen Design Group coordinate with a project's civil engineer and architect of record?
Evergreen Design Group’s landscape architects work directly with the civil engineer and architect of record from the concept stage forward, coordinating planting, hardscape, and irrigation documentation with grading plans, utility routing, and phasing sequences. This reduces the review cycles that happen when landscape documentation is developed apart from the civil set.
What is the typical turnaround time for a planting plan or irrigation design package?
Turnaround depends on site size, the number of plan sheets, the jurisdiction’s review requirements, and how complete your civil base plan is when we receive the file. We confirm a delivery date at kickoff and hold the date. RFIs, plan revisions, and agency comment letters move to the front of the queue as they arrive, because a late landscape sheet holds up your submittal. Send your CAD base plan, grading plan, jurisdiction, and target submittal date with your proposal request so we scope the schedule against real inputs.
How does Evergreen Design Group standardize plan sets across a multi-state development program?
Yes. With active licensure in 43 states, Evergreen Design Group works as a single-source landscape architecture partner for developers and design-build contractors managing sites in multiple jurisdictions, removing the need to source a separate local landscape architect for each state.
How does Evergreen Design Group keep design fees competitive without cutting corners?
Evergreen Design Group operates with a lean, low-overhead structure instead of the multiple management layers common at larger firms. That structure lowers fees without reducing the experience level of the landscape architects assigned to your project.
How does Evergreen Design Group standardize plan sets across a multi-state development program?
As a commercial landscape design company with landscape architecture licenses in 43 states, EDG delivers one plan format and one CAD layer structure in every state of your program. We replace the separate local landscape architect firms you would otherwise onboard site by site. Your civil engineer, contractor, and internal team learn one standard once, and each jurisdiction still receives plans prepared to its own submittal checklist.
How does Evergreen Design Group price landscape architect services for multi-site programs?
Fees follow scope, the number of sites, and the jurisdictions involved. Across a multi-site program, you avoid repeating onboarding, CAD standard setup, and plan-format training with a new landscape architecture firm in each state. EDG’s team of about 18 landscape architects, designers, and irrigation designers keeps decisions close to the drawing board, so revisions get resolved on a call between your project lead and the landscape architect who drew the sheet.
What does Evergreen Design Group need from our civil engineer to start a planting or irrigation plan?
We start from your civil base plan in CAD, the grading and drainage plan, utility routing, the architect’s site plan, and the landscape, tree preservation, and screening requirements the jurisdiction applies to the project. Entitlement conditions and your target submittal date complete the list. We flag missing inputs at concept review, before we draw a single plant symbol.
Does Evergreen Design Group support RFIs and agency comments after plan submittal?
Yes. EDG responds to agency comments and RFIs through entitlement and permitting. Your project lead stays on the job from the first site visit through jurisdictional submittal and construction-phase coordination, and revision requests go to your lead, not to an account manager.
Does Evergreen Design Group prepare tree disposition plans for sites with tree preservation ordinances?
Yes. EDG surveys existing trees, documents which ones meet the jurisdiction’s preservation ordinance requirements, and flags removals before your site plan goes to jurisdictional review. Tree disposition plans are one of EDG’s landscape architecture service lines, alongside planting plans, community amenity design, and hardscape plans.
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