Landscape Architecture Services for Land Developers, Civil Engineers, Architects, and Design/Build Contractors
Six Landscape Architecture Service Lines, Delivered as One Coordinated Package
Evergreen Design Group runs six landscape architecture service lines in a defined build sequence on most projects, not as six disconnected scopes.
- Land planning sets site organization, open space, circulation, and buffer placement, before any other design work starts.
- Tree disposition documents existing trees and protection zones early enough to inform grading and utility routing.
- Planting design builds the detailed, permit-ready planting plan inside the land plan’s framework, coordinated with your civil engineer’s grading and drainage.
- Hardscape design documents paving, walls, and site furnishings against the same grading and drainage base sheet, so the two disciplines never conflict in the field.
- Community amenities get built into the same site plan from the start, so pools, clubhouses, and trail connections align with circulation and phasing.
- Irrigation design follows the finished planting plan, sized to the actual plant material and hydrozones instead of a generic zone count.
Running all six through one firm means each stage hands off internally to the next, instead of being re-explained to a new consultant at every phase.
Site organization decisions made in land planning set the conditions for every service line that follows. Open space distribution, circulation hierarchy, buffer placement, and phasing logic get fixed here, before a civil engineer starts grading.
Evergreen Design Group builds every land plan against the jurisdiction’s zoning ordinance, stormwater management requirements, and site-specific constraints from the first study. That grounding is what keeps a site configuration from unraveling in plan review three months later.
This service applies on commercial, multifamily, mixed-use, and institutional sites. A typical scope includes a conceptual site plan, open space and buffer diagrams, and a phasing plan tied to your developer’s build-out schedule.
Evergreen Design Group has held landscape architecture registration in 43 states since 2005, so a national developer can scope land planning on a Texas site and a South Carolina site through one firm and one point of contact.
Tree preservation and removal requirements apply on most infill, redevelopment, and new development sites, and they usually surface early enough to shift a grading plan if nobody catches them first.
Evergreen Design Group documents existing trees by species, caliper, and condition, following an International Society of Arboriculture tree risk assessment approach, and sets tree protection zones before grading begins.
Replacement obligations get calculated in the caliper-inch or canopy format your jurisdiction’s plan review submittal requires, not a generic national default. A tree disposition plan can also stand on its own, ahead of a full landscape package, on sites where tree preservation drives the early site plan.
Deliverables: a tree survey exhibit, a tree protection plan, and a replacement tabulation sized to your jurisdiction’s ordinance.
A permit-ready planting plan specifies species suited to a project’s climate, soil, and site conditions, graded to ANSI Z60.1 nursery stock standards so what gets installed matches what got specified.
Evergreen Design Group coordinates every planting plan directly against grading, drainage, and hardscape base sheets to catch conflicts before a contractor finds them in the field. Plant selection also satisfies the local landscape ordinance, buffer requirement, and parking-lot screening standard for the jurisdiction, alongside the project’s design intent.
Where water use matters to the owner or the jurisdiction, plant groupings get organized into hydrozones that feed directly into the irrigation design, so a low-water zone and a turf zone never share one irrigation valve.
Deliverables: a plant schedule, a hydrozone layout compatible with irrigation design, and planting details sized to the jurisdiction’s buffer and screening ordinance.
Complete irrigation design covers hydraulic analysis, mainline and lateral sizing, head-to-head coverage layout, and controller programming, produced as a set a contractor can bid and install without guessing.
Evergreen Design Group sizes every system to the finished planting plan and its hydrozones, not a generic zone-by-zone default, and specifies EPA WaterSense labeled controllers where the jurisdiction or the owner’s water budget calls for them.
Specifications are written to satisfy both contractor installation needs and the irrigation documentation most municipal landscape ordinances require for permit. In states such as Texas, irrigation design is licensed separately from landscape architecture, and Evergreen Design Group carries the credential each jurisdiction requires.
Deliverables: an irrigation plan, controller zone charts, and point-of-connection details coordinated with your civil engineer’s water service and backflow prevention design.
Pools, pool decks, clubhouses, tot lots, dog parks, fitness courts, and trail connections work best designed into the site plan from the start, not layered on after circulation and grading are set.
Evergreen Design Group documents amenity areas to the accessibility requirements of the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design and the life-safety provisions that apply to pools and gathering spaces, then coordinates full construction documentation against the project’s architecture, civil infrastructure, and phasing schedule.
A trail connection gets tied to the same phasing plan as the buildings around it, so residents are not walking through active construction to reach an amenity that opened six months early.
Deliverables: amenity area layout plans, material and equipment specifications, and construction details sized to the project’s ADA and life-safety requirements.
Paving systems, retaining walls, seat walls, plazas, and site furnishings get documented against the site’s actual grading, drainage, and utility plans, sized to the project’s specific soil and slope conditions.
Evergreen Design Group coordinates retaining wall and slope stabilization details with the project’s structural engineer of record where a wall requires an engineered design, and lays out paving and jointing plans to avoid the drainage conflicts that show up in the field when hardscape gets designed in isolation from civil.
Deliverables: paving and jointing plans, retaining wall sections, and site furnishing specifications coordinated with grading and drainage.
Landscape Architects, Land Planners, and Irrigation Designers Licensed in 43 States
Evergreen Design Group provides landscape architect services for land developers, civil engineers, architects, and design-build contractors working on commercial, multi-family, and mixed-use projects. Headquartered in Bluffton, South Carolina and licensed in 43 states since 2005, we deliver six integrated service lines — land planning, tree disposition, planting design, irrigation design, community amenities, and hardscape design — as a single coordinated package rather than six separate vendors. Every deliverable is built around your civil engineer’s base drawings and produced to move through local jurisdictional review without repeated comment rounds.
Project Types Evergreen Design Group Serves
- Commercial retail and restaurant
- Multifamily and mixed-use residential
- Healthcare facilities
- Hospitality and hotel development
- Corporate and office campuses
- Industrial and logistics
- Educational and civic institutions
Frequently Asked Questions
Do we need to hire all six services, or can we engage Evergreen for a single scope like planting design?
Individual services can be engaged on their own. Many clients start with a single scope, such as planting design or irrigation design, on a specific project, and expand to additional service lines as their program grows. Land planning is the exception in practice: because it establishes the site organization that grading, planting, and hardscape are built around, it typically needs to happen first or in close coordination with whichever other services are engaged.
How do land planning and landscape architecture differ in scope on a typical project?
Land planning addresses site organization before grading begins: open space distribution, circulation hierarchy, buffer placement, and phasing logic. Landscape architecture, covering planting design, hardscape, and amenities, builds the detailed, permit-ready design inside that framework. Most projects engage both together, produced as one coordinated package on a single schedule.
Does Evergreen coordinate directly with our civil engineer, or do we manage that handoff ourselves?
Evergreen Design Group coordinates directly. Every service line is built on your civil engineer’s current base drawings, and our team tracks base sheet revisions through CAD layer coordination so grading, drainage, and utility layouts stay aligned with landscape plans through each submittal round. Your team does not manage that handoff.
Can Evergreen produce tree disposition plans separately from a full landscape design package?
Yes. Tree disposition plans are commonly engaged as a standalone deliverable early in a project, particularly on infill and redevelopment sites where tree preservation requirements affect site planning and grading decisions before a full landscape package is scoped.
What states does Evergreen Design Group provide landscape architect services in?
Evergreen Design Group holds landscape architecture registration in 43 states. Licensing structures vary by jurisdiction — for example, North Carolina services are performed by an associate entity, Evergreen Design Group of North Carolina, PLLC, and Texas irrigation design is regulated separately from landscape architecture registration. See our Areas We Serve page for state-specific details.
How does irrigation design get coordinated with planting design so plant material and coverage actually match?
The same team produces both, working from the same plant schedule and hydrozone layout. Irrigation head placement and controller programming are sized to the specific planting plan for the site rather than a generic zone-by-zone default, which keeps water use and plant establishment aligned with what’s actually being installed.
What's the typical timeline from initial land plan to permit-ready construction documents across all six services?
Timeline depends on project complexity and jurisdiction, but a typical sequence runs from initial land plan concept through permit-ready planting, hardscape, and irrigation documents within a single coordinated schedule rather than six separate project timelines. Civil coordination milestones and jurisdictional review cycles are the primary schedule drivers; we confirm a project-specific timeline at kickoff.
Do all six services require a licensed landscape architect's seal, or only some?
Land planning, planting design, tree disposition, hardscape design, and community amenities documentation are sealed by a registered landscape architect. Irrigation design is sealed by a landscape architect in most states, though a small number of jurisdictions, including Texas, regulate irrigation design separately from landscape architecture licensure; we manage that distinction internally by project location.
Can Evergreen produce construction documents that integrate directly with our architect's and civil engineer's CAD files?
Yes. All six service lines are produced as CAD-based deliverables coordinated directly with your project’s civil and architectural base files, using the file formats and layer standards your design team already works in, to eliminate conflicts before documents reach the field.
Does Evergreen carry professional liability insurance for landscape architecture work?
Yes. Evergreen Design Group carries professional liability, also called errors and omissions, coverage along with general liability insurance, and can provide current certificates of insurance during project onboarding or as part of an RFP response.
What do you need from us to scope a fee proposal for a multi-state or multi-phase project?
Four items get a fee proposal started: your civil engineer’s current base sheet or survey, any existing site plan or entitlement documents, the project’s jurisdiction and project type, and your target submittal or bid date. With those in hand, Evergreen Design Group can scope a fee proposal against the actual project rather than a generic per-acre estimate.