Landscaping in Ridgefield, WA

What Ridgefield yards actually need

New construction yards are our specialty here

Ridgefield has been one of the fastest-growing cities in Washington for a decade, and the subdivisions off Pioneer Street, up around Taverner Ridge, Ridgefield Heights and the newer developments toward the north are full of homes handed over with a thin skin of hydroseed over compacted subsoil. Builders deliver a certificate of occupancy, not a landscape. We do a great deal of first-landscape work on those lots: ripping the compaction, correcting the grade the builder left pitched toward the house, getting downspouts tightlined away from the foundation, and then building the patio and lawn on top of ground that will actually support them.

Clay, and a lot of it

Ridgefield sits on the same heavy clay subsoil as most of west Clark County. It holds water from October through May, which is why so many yards here have a permanent soggy corner and why retaining walls built without drain rock behind them start leaning by year five. Every base we build and every wall we stack accounts for it.

Permits and the growth area

Work inside Ridgefield city limits goes through the City of Ridgefield; properties just outside fall under Clark County. The line is not always where homeowners assume, particularly in the newer areas near the urban growth boundary. We check which authority covers your address before quoting anything that may need a permit.

Neighborhoods we work in

Downtown & Abrams Park · Pioneer Canyon · Taverner Ridge · Ridgefield Heights · Discovery Ridge · Gee Creek · South Ridge · Union Ridge