Yardzen is reinventing landscape design. Our delightful, all-online design process helps homeowners reimagine their outdoor spaces, including plants, hardscaping, functional spaces (kitchens, pergolas, playspaces), and the exterior of their home, including paint, siding, windows, doors, and roofing.

Yardzen’s talented team of designers and horticulturists use your photos and videos, combined with technology, data, and plant science, to design your outdoor spaces without ever stepping foot on your property. After completing the design portion of the process, we help connect you with a local, vetted contractor who can install your design.

Yardzen is for anyone who has a yard an outdoor space and wants to improve it.

Yardzen’s process and scope of work set us apart from traditional landscape design.

We created Yardzen as an alternative to the time and cost-intensive process of traditional landscape design. Through our online design studio, we empower homeowners and designers with technology, connecting clients with the best design talent, working on your timeline (no mid-day site visits), and keeping costs low.

In refining the process of landscape design, we’ve also realized the limitations of traditional landscaping’s scope of work. We design outdoor spaces that help our clients live better, more beautiful, and sustainable lives outside. We are a one-stop-shop for everything from plantings and hardscape to functional alfresco rooms and exterior design, including paint, windows and doors, and roofing.

Our favorite topic! Our core ethos is that anyone who has ownership over a patch of Earth has the responsibility to effect positive change. We’re a team of landscape designers & LEED-certified architects, environmental consultants, conservationists, even beekeepers. We’re here to empower people to make sustainable decisions about your outdoor spaces. As a general rule, every Yardzen design includes climate-adapted and pollinator-supporting plants. We believe that if we all do a little we can do a lot.

Yardzen designs can include essentially anything you might want in your outdoor space. This list is not exhaustive so if there’s something you don’t see here, but want, please reach out. We almost certainly can design it.

Patios, Decks, Swimming Pools, Pergolas, Pet Spaces, Kids’ Play Spaces, Trampolines, Hot Tubs and Spas, Fences, Saunas, Outdoor Kitchens, Firepits, Plunge Pools, Edible Gardens, Social Front Yards, Driveways, Front Entries, Garage Doors, Exterior Siding. (And more! Just ask.)

We aim to deliver your design within 5-10 business days, and do so in the vast majority of cases. However, great design can’t be rushed. If your designer shares your design and it’s not up to our high standards, we’ll kindly ask for your grace to allow them a few more days to get it right. Our philosophy is that great is more important than on time.

Your Yardzen Project Manager is your main point of contact throughout the process. They’re here to guide you every step of the way, keeping your project on track, answering any questions, facilitating communication with your designer and helping you make the most of your design package. You’ll have the option to schedule a live kick-off call with them, and they’ll connect you to local, vetted contractors when it comes time to build.

Your Cost Advisor is a Yardzen team member with decades of hands-on landscape contracting experience. They’re here to help you confidently navigate contractor estimates, whether you’ve gathered bids on your own or with our help. They’ll review your estimates in detail, explain any differences or red flags and help you compare options so you can make the best decision for your project and budget.