Landscaping in Attalla, AL

The ground in Attalla

Attalla sits below the southern end of Lookout Mountain where the valley opens out. Older established lots with settled soil, mature hardwoods, and a good deal of previous work already in the ground: old walks, old lines, old footings nobody has a drawing for.

What that means for the build

Mature trees are the constraint worth naming. Trenching or excavating inside a root zone can take a tree down two summers later, so drainage lines and footings get routed around root plates rather than straight through them.

The properties

Established in-town homes on larger older lots, where the landscape is usually being repaired and extended rather than started from nothing.

What usually leads in Attalla

Every trade is available across the whole service area. These are the ones that tend to carry a Attalla project:

• Planting & Bed WorkBeds cut with a real edge, laid out to the architecture rather than around it, and planted to read as intentional the day it goes in and better in five years.
• Masonry & ConcreteAll applications of brick, block and stone, plus concrete work, laid by the same crew that runs the hardscape. Steps, veneer, columns, walls and the flatwork between them, built to match the house instead of fighting it.
• DrainageFrench drains, catch basins, downspout tie-ins and swales. Georgia clay does not drink water. It holds it, and every terrace, wall and lawn on this list lasts exactly as long as the water under it is managed.

All ten trades run in-house, so one crew and one schedule covers the whole job.

See the work

The featured jobs are documented before and after, from the same camera position. They are the honest version of what a finished project looks like.