Water-Wise Landscape and Irrigation Professionals#
The following landscape and irrigation contractors are ready to help you achieve a water-saving landscape thanks to their in-depth knowledge of water-wise principles and City landscaping programs. The companies listed have attended a Water-Wise Professionals informational meeting and are not endorsed by the City. Participants of City of Fort Collins programs are not required to use a professional from this list to be eligible to participate.
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Apex Futures LLC is a local Fort Collins firm passionate about designing and installing engaging, water wise landscapes that benefit the entire ecological community. Leaning on xeriscape and permaculture principles, we believe nature principally inform our design.
Other services: HOA consulting, grant writing, strategic planning
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
Horsetooth Nursery is a small grower specializing in local native plants and other xeric, pollinator-friendly species.
Other services: native plants
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
Blue Spruce Horticulture is a humble and resilient enterprise. We create unique, functional, and artistic landscapes that thrive in the high plains. We are impassioned horticulturists, creative designers, skilled craftsmen, and patient teachers.
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Landscape maintenance
- Masonry
- Irrigation auditing
- Tree/shrub pruning
- Hauling and debris removal/recycling
- Pesticide and disease control
- Sod cut and haul-off only projects
- Native seeding projects
ZGL is a full-service landscaping company, we specialize in providing both commercial and residential landscaping services, including design, installation, and maintenance. We make life better through landscaping.
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Landscape maintenance
- Tree/shrub pruning
- Native seeding projects
- Certified Landscape Professional
Front Range Landscape is family owned and operated. We offer landscape design, installation and maintenance services. We specialize in providing custom gardens that suit our customers' needs and wants.
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Landscape maintenance
- Masonry
- Tree/shrub pruning
- Pesticide and disease control
- Native seeding projects
- Certified Landscape Professional
All Terrain Landscaping, rooted in humble beginnings, now offers comprehensive water management solutions. With seasoned technicians and innovative techniques, they tackle even the toughest challenges, ensuring water savings and efficient irrigation. Trust them to handle any landscaping need with expertise and care. With over 100 years of combined experience, we all technicians to carry a minimum of one certification including CID, CLIA, CLIT, QWEL and be well versed in the newest water conservation technology platforms.
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Landscape maintenance
- Masonry
- Irrigation auditing
- Tree/shrub pruning
- Hauling and debris removal/recycling
- Pesticide and disease control
- Sod cut and haul-off only projects
- Native seeding projects
- Certified Landscape Professional
Chickadee Pine Designs LLC, is an ecological landscape design company specializing in pollinator and bird friendly landscape habitats. We also specialize in facilitating community landscape design workshops, interpretive graphic design, and garden coaching. We design with our clients, teach what we know, and help guide installation to create habitat for all. We only provide landscape design services and can plan workshops to help you install your own landscape with friends and family. If you want someone else to install your landscape then we can refer you to an installation company.
- Landscape design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Native seeding projects
Our residential landscape installation services and maintenance services are available to properties in Fort Collins (east of Horsetooth Reservoir), Loveland (east of Co Rd 23), Timnath, Wellington, Windsor, and northern Johnstown. Our landscape installation services and maintenance services for commercial properties are available for all of Northern Colorado.
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Landscape maintenance
- Masonry
- Irrigation auditing
- Tree/shrub pruning
- Hauling and debris removal/recycling
- Pesticide and disease control
- Sod cut and haul-off only projects
- Native seeding projects
- Certified Landscape Professional
Straightforward landscaping is passionate about Colorado’s ever changing landscape and the clients they service. We provide design, build, manage and maintain. We are excited to add hydroseeding as an option for our clients to help with cost and more options for landscaping. We have been apart of XIP since 2020 and also life after lawn in Weld County.
Other services: hydroseeding
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Landscape maintenance
- Masonry
- Tree/shrub pruning
- Hauling and debris removal/recycling
- Native seeding projects
Oak & Stone Design is a local landscape design and construction team dedicated to designing & building enticing outdoor living spaces with the environment in mind.
Other services: landscape lighting and planters
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Landscape maintenance
- Irrigation auditing
Residential and light commercial irrigation service and repair/ renovation company with over 38 years of doing business in the Fort Collins area. Irrigation system repairs, renovation and service including backflow testing.
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Certified Landscape Professional
Maddie specializes in naturalistic, native-plant landscapes that serve people and wildlife alike. A trained botanist, she offers consulting, design, and planting services, and is herself a former XIP participant (2021).
Other services: lawn-to-xeriscape conversion
- Landscape design
- Landscape installation
- Landscape maintenance
- Native seeding projects
Elevated Outdoor Living, Hardscaping, and Landscape Construction. Summit is a professional design build company that is known for its custom outdoor living spaces and hardscape construction. We are detailed craftsmen and certified hardscape specialists who have been assisting our clients from the concept plan to the finished landscape since 1999 in Northern Colorado
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Hardscape installation
- Masonry
Based in Fort Collins, CSU graduate offering landscape and home exterior design services along the Front Range with a network of contractors for installation. Consultations provided for tree care and landscape maintenance as well.
Other services: maintenance and tree care consultations
- Landscape design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
ET Irrigation's focus is anything irrigation related with core business being Irrigation Management. (Assess, Design, Manage, repair, consult, Startup and winterization)
Other services: turf to native grass conversions
- Irrigation design
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Irrigation auditing
- Native seeding projects
Earth Love Gardens (ELG) creates native plant, pollinator & bird-friendly and edible Landscape Designs. ELG also offers Project Management to install projects for non-profit organizations. ELG is partners with the Audubon Rockies and the Pollinator Partnership.
Other services: project management of installations for non-profit organizations
- Landscape design
Sundrops & Starflowers specializes in landscape design for the do-it-yourself homeowner. A yard that is truly lovely is one that is loved by the owner. Large or small projects welcome.
- Landscape design
We provide detailed landscape designs and consultations. We specialize in low water, native designs as well as pollinator friendly designs. We also provide detailed garden maintenance and garden installations. We will oversee the installation of an entire landscape design from start to finish and then take care of it as it matures.
Other services: garden maintenance, raised garden bed design, edible gardens
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Landscape maintenance
- Tree/shrub pruning
- Hauling and debris removal/recycling
- Sod cut and haul-off only projects
- Native seeding projects
Norris Design offers planning, landscape architecture, irrigation design, and branding services. Our integrated approach brings individual disciplines together to design places that get built. We believe in the power of place and the ability of our environments to inspire us all.
Other services: planning & zoning entitlements, site plan amendments
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Native seeding projects
Offering hourly consulting to complete landscape plans plus DIY support, design on-site, Parkway Amendments, curated plant lists & plant sourcing, ecological gardening practices, native and regionally appropriate planting design, site design to marry building and landscape architecture. The best time to design for warm-season garden installation is September-April.
- Landscape design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Native seeding projects
At Asher Architects+Engineers, we're a collective of forward-thinking collaborators who blend art and science to create water-efficient designs that are sustainable and inspiring. We understand the challenges of the region, and our landscape architects and irrigation designers work closely with you to develop solutions that are mindful of water usage and tailored to your way of life. Plus, we've got you covered if you need help navigating the City's site plan amendment process.
Other Services Offered: Site Plan Amendment and Entitlement Processes
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Native seeding projects
Confluent Design provides landscape architectural design services for property owners interested in creating native, waterwise, firewise landscapes.
- Landscape design
- Hardscape design
Serenity Garden Design is focused on offering ecological landscape design, project management and garden consulting in northern Colorado. Using well over a decade of education and experience, we work with our clients to produce thoughtful designs that address their needs and desires along with the needs of the environment and local wildlife.
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
Urban Ecology Studio provides Landscape Design services with the intent of creating meaningful spaces that also serve as examples of careful stewardship of water and habitat. Fred Haberecht, the owner of Urban Ecology Studio, has 40 years of experience in designing and managing landscapes in the arid west. Fred Haberecht is a Licensed Landscape Architect with 40 years of substantial and varied design experience, 20 of which were at Colorado State University first as the Campus Landscape Architect and later as the Campus Planner.
Other services: plant health care recommendations
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
At Earthborn Landscape Design, we work in close partnership with our clients to create water-wise landscape designs that are beautiful, functional, and sustainable. We specialize in designing low-water landscapes with a strong focus on native plants.
- Landscape design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
Habitat Guild is a full-service, premium residential landscape company providing design, build, and care services in Northern Colorado. We specialize in the artful craft of naturalized landscape through an ecological lens.
Other services: consultation
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Patio design
- Landscape installation
- Hardscape installation
- Irrigation installation, repairs, maintenance
- Landscape maintenance
- Native seeding projects
- Certified Landscape Professional
Fresh Blooms Design creates beautiful landscapes for people and pollinators. We strive to use native and low maintenance plants that work for your vision to allow for maximum enjoyment.
- Landscape design
- Hardscape design
About Thyme Permascapes, LLC works to create and maintain beautiful gardens through soil retention, watershed adjustments, and thoughtful planting. New and established areas are transformed from bland, high maintenance yards into beautifully interesting, low maintenance spaces.
- Landscape design
- Irrigation design
- Hardscape design
- Landscape installation
- Landscape maintenance
- Hauling and debris removal/recycling
- Sod cut and haul-off only projects
- Native seeding projects
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