Edina Landscape Dream Come True for This Family

A few years ago, a family in Edina was looking to upgrade their landscape. They had just finished a home addition and wanted a beautiful front yard to complement the work they had done. We worked with the homeowners to create a design to give them exactly what they were looking for – beauty and privacy with a golf course quality lawn.

To give them the type of lawn the family wanted, the Great Goats team stripped out the old lawn and meticulously graded the exposed dirt. Then we installed lush Minnesota grown sod. A curved border separated the lawn from the landscaped areas and gentle berms were added to give the family a rolling contour instead of the typical flat front yard.

We also landscaped the front entry and the foundation of the home and added an L-shaped garden with pine and birch trees, a flowering tree and lots of blooming shrubs and perennials. The final effect was a colorful screen that gave a sense of privacy from the street traffic in front of the home.

Two years later, the Great Goats team found themselves back at the same address. The family had recently build a new wooden deck off the second story, added a concrete deck around their swimming pool, and enclosed the back yard with a new fence. Once again the family’s main concern was privacy. The open fields that surrounded their backyard were slated for development and keeping a sense of peace and seclusion was a high priority.

We planted evergreen and birch trees along the fence to create a natural screen. We also carried over the contoured feel of the front yard by installing gentle berms and a curved border along the planting beds.  Flowering patio trees, blooming shrubs, perennials and ornamental grasses were planted to create natural and colorful points of interest around the yard.

Throughout the property, accent borders were added to enhance the naturalistic feel that the homeowners wanted.

Since first meeting the family, Great Goats has enjoyed maintaining and improving the landscaping of their property. We love taking a project from the very beginning and improving the site over multiple years to help homeowners create a yard that they truly love. We value our ongoing relationship with this family and have been thrilled to receive several referrals based on our work.