Lawn Renovation

Maintaining a beautiful, lush green lawn is sometimes a difficult task for even the most seasoned home gardener. Quite often the knoledge of horticultural practices needed to sustain a lawn are just not available, and when this happens lawn can perish. We are very familiar with this cycle and are here to help. Not only have the tools and techniques to help save your existing lawn, we also can prodive new turf in many forms.

It is quite common when a new home is built that the lawn installed is a sun-loving blend of seeds or sod that look and grow great. However, as the years pass and the trees mature, the sun becomes more and more filtered and the lawn mecomes thinner and thinner. What was the correct seed or sod at the time is no longer the proper type of lawn for under your big, beautiful shade trees. When this happens, we are here to help.

 Sodding

For an instant green, healthy lawn, nothing beats the transplanting of a new lawn into your yard. Sodding just does this, rolls of sod are cut from a sod farm and then transplanted into your property. When kept moist, the new sod lawn starts growning almost immediatley, needing to be mowed withing about 10 days. There are several advantages of installing sod over seeding, the first of which is the instant gratifacation of an imediates new lawn. Second, sod is very expressive. If you are not watering it enough, sod will show signs of drying, shrinking, or discoloring rather quickly, telling you it needs more water.

Seeding

A seeded lawn is a stronger lawn than transplanting sod into your yard. A home-grown seeded lawn will have a deeper root system and be a little healthier than sod.

Slit-Seeding

Over Seeding

Seed Types

Landscape Sub-Contractors

As a General Contractor, Developer, or Architectural Firm you know the importance of reliable, safe subcontractors to aid in your timley completion of your project. When you need a landscape sub, Suburban Landscaping is you best choice for an experienced, professional landscape sub-contractor. Lead by expert project managers and a detailed take-off service, Suburban Landscapings trained crews can handle the landscape portion of any of your projects in our service area. Focusing on safely installing your project with quialty and craftsmanship, we can provide you with a full range  of landscape services. Installing turf, drainage, hardscapes, water features and plantings are just a part of our expertise.

Take-Offs 

Send us your prints, whether by mail or email, and we'll get right on getting you a proposal. Our knowledgable Landscape Department staff is very accurate, detailed, and has the resources to find all locally available materials. With percision measuring devices and computer calculating, errors just don't happen. Your price will never be retracted or changed, and no shortcuts will be taken during installation to maintain margins.  Let us know when you need your quote and we'll deliver!

Expereince

Our trained, expereinced crews are experts at all phases of commercial landscape installations. Working with the appropriate equipment for the size of the project and the skilled, seasoned laborers in our staff, Suburban Landscaping can offer unparalleled quality and timley completetion of any size project.

Drug Free Workplace

Workplace safety is our main focus during landscape insallations, and an impared employee puts everyone, and the project, in harms way. Suburban Landscaping has a strict, written policy that employees must read and sign before being hired. A copy of our  drug free workplace policy can be found here on-line.

Insurance & Paperwork

Our Business Department is a valuable asset to our commercial installations, assuring that the correct permits are aquired, bonds are in place, and that materials are paid for on-time. They are also skilled in the areas of insurance, taking care of your riders, Additional Insured's, and certificates.

Suburban Landscaping is one of the most insured landscape contractors in the south suburbs. With millions of dollars in coverage, we have policies in place to cover everything from our equipment on your site to workmans compensation for our employees. And just for added measure, we also carry a one million dollar umbrella policy.

Project Managers

As everyone in the trades understands, all projects run smoother with an expereinced, knowledgable project manager at the helm. We have several project manangers that work on commercial landscape installations, each with more than 15 years of feild expereince. Handeling change orders, tickets, and the scope of work are just a part of our project managers responsibilities. Material deliveries, labor assignments, and work site safety are all part of the job with a Suburban Landscaping project manager on site.

Safety

In todays enviornment, work place safety history and practices are an essential part of selecting a sub-contractor. It should be more than just checking insurance for workmans compensation insurance, we think it should also be how the perform on you site and how they have performed in the past. As an OSHA inspected company, we follow all reccomended safety guidlines and hold regular safety meeting with mandatory attendance.  

Where We Work

To insure the highest quality of service and supervision, we have limited our work area to the following areas: South Chicago, South Chicago Suburbs, West Chicago Suburbs, Joliet Area, Valparaiso Area, and Northwest Indiana. However, we do occasionally work on projects in other areas upon request.

Prevailing Wage

Our book keepers and payroll personell are very familiar with rules of prevailing wage and are very adept at handeling the intracacies of prevailing wage payroll. Payroll audits are handled swiftly and accuartely, enabling you to feel secure that your sub-contractors are in compliance with prevailing wage laws.

Natural Landscape Stone Installation

Natural stones are just that, stones that are found in nature. In a world filling up with man made brick pavers and retaining walls, natural stones are becoming rare and often unique in landscape designs. Natural stones look and feel different from the typical concrete blocks and pavers that are most commonly used in landscape construction. Random shapes and sizes are the hallmark of natural stones, but they also can be cut or milled into a more formal, dimensional product. Used in many different applications such as retaining walls, bed edging, patios, sidewalks, ponds and fountains, accent pieces, steps, and even house facade accents and coynes.

If you are looking for a unique, natural look for your landscape project, then you have come to the right spot. Below are several of the many types of natural stones we offer our clients.  

Flagstone

A wonderful and versatile natural stone, Flagstone has become the most popular catch-all or generic name for a myriad of  natural stone products. Usually a sedimentary stone created in a quarry from fissable planes of sandstone and quartz, with the different colors come from an infusion of silica, iron oxide, or calcite.

As very attractive paving material, most flagstone used in landscaping are earthy toned colors such as sandstone, pale red, or tan. Used as both a paver for patios in outdoor living, or as retaining walls and steps. Often, natural flagstone is used as a natural stepper pathway embedded in a surround of mulch or stones. Natural flagstone is an irregular shaped stone that comes in a variety of thicknesses and sizes, no two pieces every look alike. The installation of flagstone is a more time consuming process than with pavers or retaining wall blocks due to the jigsaw puzzle type fitting together of pieces. Our trained landscape staff are very knowledgeable about the installation of flagstone and the mason like techniques used to trim, snap, and break pieces to the right shape and size. For more pictures of flagstone, visit the examples of our work page.

Bluestone

A rather unique natural stone, bluestone is a similar product to flagstone, yet blue in color. Usually milled for a dimensional shape, bluestone also comes in irregular shapes and sizes. Bluestone is also a great paving choice not only because of its color, but also because of its non-skid texture when wet. Bluestone is slightly more expensive than flagstone and because of that, it is usually not used in retaining walls like flagstone.

Outcropping Stones

Offered in a variety of colors and styles, outcropping stone is usually an accent piece in a landscape that gives the illusion of a natural planting environment or habitat. Outcropping stones vary in size, but are usually from 3" thick to 18" thick or more. As large visual elements in the landscape, outcropping stones are a unique, heavy focal point to any landscape design.

Cobblestone

A very popular aesthetic boulder choice is cobblestone. Available in sizes ranging from 4" to 36", cobblestones offer a wide variety of uses, textures and colors. The most popular for residential use is the Wisconsin Granite cobblestone, with a pink and blue hue to the granite stone. Some uses for cobblestone are as a bed edging, retaining walls, pond and stream liner, and as a stand alone accent piece. for more commercial or functional use, cobblestones are often used in the turf along streets or drives that lack curbs. These large boulders restrict cars from driving onto the turf in those areas.

Planting Bed Rock

The soil around landscape plantings is referred to as a planting bed. These beds will collect and germinate weed seeds if not covered by some form of weed barrier fabric and bedding material, such as rock/stone or mulch. The benefits of installing rock/stone instead of mulch is that rock/stone is a one-time installation. Rock/stone does not break down and decompose like mulch does, so therefore there is no need to top dress rock/stone every couple of years like there is when installing mulch.

We offer a wide selection in bedding rocks/stones for our clients to choose from. Below are just a few of the popular choices that we offer in our bedding stones.

River Rock	Merrimac	Red Lava Rock	American Heritage
White Marble	Autumn Smoke	Desert Sunset	Pink Blush

What Does Natural Stone Cost?

With so many options on the natural stone pallet, there is no definitive answer to that question. Overall, some natural stones are more expensive than man made products of cement, such as pavers or retaining wall block. Bedding stones are slightly more expensive than mulch, but there is no every other year top-dressing cost. However, our example pricing page has some approximate pricing for your consideration. For an exact pricing of natural stone for your landscape, request a landscape quote from one of our landscape designers.

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