Spring and Fall Reset
$680 a year
$340 per visit, two visits
- Cleanup, pruning and bed edging
- Fresh mulch where it is needed
- Irrigation and lighting check
- A short written report after each visit
Patios and gardens built to be lived in, and still looking good in year ten.
Stoneleaf designs and builds patios, outdoor kitchens, planting, lighting and drainage for established homes in Myers Park, Dilworth, Eastover and south Charlotte. One team draws it, builds it and looks after it.
A fire court with a curved seating wall, finished in SouthPark last fall.
- Licensed North Carolina landscape and hardscape contractor, fully insured.
- Design consultation is $450 and is credited to your project when you build with us.
- Most projects run from $25,000 to $150,000, with a fixed price before work is scheduled.
Recent work in the neighborhoods we know best.
Every project shows the budget and the build time, so you can see what a yard like yours takes.
A tiered terrace with a fire pit
Pavers, stacked-stone seat walls, wood-burning fire pit, new borders along the retaining wall.
- Neighborhood
- Ballantyne
- Budget
- $110k to $140k
- Build time
- 11 weeks
A bluestone courtyard under the trees
Irregular bluestone, two curved stone benches, a planted urn and shade borders with moss joints.
- Neighborhood
- Dilworth
- Budget
- $48k to $62k
- Build time
- 6 weeks
A garden that works after dark
Low-voltage lighting, a replanted border under the maple, new edging and a lit path.
- Neighborhood
- Myers Park
- Budget
- $32k to $41k
- Build time
- 5 weeks
A covered kitchen and bar
Gabled cover, stone-veneer bar, built-in grill, stamped paving with an in-line trench drain.
- Neighborhood
- Cotswold
- Budget
- $95k to $120k
- Build time
- 10 weeks
A cedar pergola around a stone fire box
Cedar pergola, built-in benches with storage, flagstone floor and a stacked-stone fire box.
- Neighborhood
- Eastover
- Budget
- $72k to $90k
- Build time
- 8 weeks
See one in person before you decide.
Every project above was drawn by our designers and built by our own crew. Ask us for a finished project in your neighborhood. Past clients have offered to show you around, and the walk-through is the best way to judge the stonework.
Request a design consultationHow a project comes together.
You know the price and the finished picture before anyone digs. After that, the same crew stays with you until the plants have settled in.
Design consultation
Within two weeks of your request
A designer walks the yard with you for about two hours: the grade, where water goes, where the sun lands, how your family uses the space. The $450 fee is credited to your project.
Plan and 3D drawings
Three to four weeks
You get a scaled plan, a planting palette and 3D views of the finished space, with a fixed price. We revise it with you until it is right, then schedule the build.
Build
Six to twelve weeks
One crew from excavation to the last plant, with a single project lead you can text. You get a short update every Friday, with photos.
First-year care
Four visits in year one
We come back at 30 days, then each season, to prune, adjust the lighting and irrigation, and replace anything that has not settled. It is included in every build.
What we build, described by what you get.
Most clients combine several of these into one plan, so the patio, planting and lighting are designed together.
A patio that feels like another room
Natural stone, bluestone and paver patios with steps, seat walls and fire features, laid on a base built to last through Carolina clay and freeze-thaw.
Typically $28,000 to $95,000
A kitchen you cook in all summer
Built-in grills, counters, covered bars and refrigeration, with gas, water and power run properly and inspected.
Typically $45,000 to $130,000
Borders that look good in January
Planting plans with evergreen structure, native perennials and trees sized for the spot, so the garden has shape in every season.
Typically $12,000 to $40,000 as part of a project
Evenings that carry on after dark
Low-voltage lighting for steps, paths, walls and trees, on a timer and dimmable, so the yard is usable and safe at night.
Typically $6,000 to $22,000
A yard that stays dry
Regrading, French drains, dry creek beds and rain gardens, built before the first stone is laid and hidden in the finished design.
Typically $8,000 to $35,000
Privacy that grows in
Screening with evergreen hedges, stone walls, cedar fences and trellis, planted at a size that works from the first summer.
Typically $9,000 to $38,000
Seasonal care plans, so the work keeps looking the way it did on handover.
First-year care is included with every build. After that, choose the plan that fits the garden.
Four Seasons
$1,440 a year
$360 per visit, four visits
- Everything in Spring and Fall Reset
- Summer and winter visits
- Stone washed and joint sand topped up
- Seasonal color in your planters
Estate Care
$320 a month
Billed year-round
- Visits every other week, March to November
- One visit a month in winter
- Plant health report each season
- Storm cleanup and priority repairs
Plans are for properties we have built or inspected. Cancel any time with 30 days’ notice.
The people who will be in your yard.
The designer who walks your site is the one who draws the plan, and the foreman who builds it works to that same drawing.
Greg Whitaker
Owner and lead designer
Trained as a landscape architect and has drawn Charlotte yards for nineteen years. Greg runs every design consultation himself.
Owen Pruitt
Horticulturist
Chooses every plant and goes to the nursery with you. Owen writes the planting plan and checks it again at 30 days.
Hannah Reyes and Marcus Bell
Planting lead and hardscape foreman
Hannah sets out and plants every bed. Marcus has laid stone for fifteen years and runs the build crew.
And eleven more.
Stone masons, equipment operators, a lighting technician and Carla, who keeps the schedule and answers the phone. Everyone on site is on our payroll. We do not subcontract the stonework or the planting.
What homeowners say after the first full season.
“We talked to four companies. Stoneleaf was the only one that talked about where the water goes before they talked about the stone. Fourteen months on, after a wet spring and two big storms, the courtyard has not held a puddle.”
“Greg's drawings were so clear that my husband, who does not care about gardens, signed off in one meeting. The build ran a week over because of rain, and Marcus called us on Friday to say so before we had to ask.”
“The kitchen gets more use in one summer than our old deck did in five years. They also came back at 30 days and reset a coping stone that had settled. No charge, no fuss.”
“Not the lowest price, but the only quote where every line made sense to me.”
Questions we hear before the first visit.
What does a project cost?
Most of our projects run between $25,000 and $150,000. A patio with seat walls and planting is usually $50,000 to $95,000. A full outdoor kitchen with cover and lighting is usually $95,000 to $130,000. You will have a fixed price in writing before any work is scheduled.
How soon can you start?
Design consultations are usually within two weeks. After you approve the plan, builds start about six to ten weeks later, depending on the season. Spring is our busiest time, so people who plan in winter get the best dates.
Do you handle permits and HOA approval?
Yes. We pull the permits and prepare the drawings that your HOA or architectural review board asks for. In Myers Park and Eastover that is often the slowest step, so we start it early.
Can you build through the winter?
Stone, walls and drainage can go in all winter in Charlotte. We plant from October to early December and again from March to May, so a winter build finishes with planting when it is the right time for the plants.
What if I only need a small job?
We take on complete projects, usually $25,000 and up, because that is where a design-and-build team makes the difference. For a single bed or a repair, a local maintenance crew will serve you better, and we are glad to suggest one.
Request a design consultation.
Tell us about the yard. A designer calls you within one business day to set a time for a two-hour site visit. The $450 consultation fee is credited to your project if you build with us.
- Call us
- (704) 555-0132
- Office hours
- Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 5:00 pm
- Where we work
- Myers Park, Dilworth, Eastover, Ballantyne, Cotswold, SouthPark, and nearby Charlotte neighborhoods