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Residential and commercial across Sonoma County — from a first design to years of care, every part of your outdoor space handled by the same accountable crew.
Eight services, one accountable crew — designed, built, and cared for by the same people every visit.
A landscape designed around your space and built to last, from bare ground to finished planting.
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Smart, efficient watering designed, installed, and maintained for healthy plants and lower bills.
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Pruning, protection, and treatment that keep plantings shaped, healthy, and thriving year-round.
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Year-round green with almost no water, installed clean, infilled right, and kept fresh.
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Defensible space planned zone by zone, so your property is protected and still looks like a garden.
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Ongoing care on a set schedule, handled by the same crew that already knows your property.
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Low voltage lighting that makes paths safe, features stand out, and your yard usable after dark.
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Patios, walls, and walkways set on a proper base, so the bones of your yard stay put for years.
Learn more“Gerardo and team have provided the best experience beginning to end of our backyard project. The group was incredibly polite and professional throughout. The end result was exactly what we wanted.”
“Thank you so much for the great work with our backyard! Communication was fantastic. Quick responses and really professional. Everyone was communicative and made sure that we were on the same page as far as materials and color.”
“Jerry’s crew did a great job on my project. His quotes were timely and reasonable. They spent a week here and after each day’s work the yard was cleared. Very happy with the quality of work and the demeanor of the crew. I highly recommend Nieto Landscaping.”
“Nieto Landscaping & Maintenance did a terrific job on the yard at my new home! This was a pretty big job, requiring a lot of work putting in a new lawn, adding mulch, as well as planting new plants, trees and flowers. Jerry and his crew were highly knowledgeable and professional. I couldn’t be happier with the results. Now have them for regular maintenance. Highly recommended!”
“Jerry is wonderful and I would recommend him for any of your garden needs. He’s professional and personable. He trimmed up our ugly Cypress tree for a reasonable cost and did a fantastic job. He did all clean up as well. 5 Stars!!”
Every yard here belongs to a neighbor. Every one has a story — the problem we walked into, and what we left behind.
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“Gerardo and team have provided the best experience beginning to end of our backyard project. The end result was exactly what we wanted.”
A tired stretch of yard regraded, sodded, and bordered — level, green, and easy to keep that way.
Green all year on almost no water — and stepping stones that keep the path clean through the rain.
Soft underfoot for kids and the trampoline — and zero mowing for the parents.
Gravel, tough plantings, and drip irrigation — curb appeal that shrugs off August.
Runoff that used to carve the slope now follows the stone — drainage disguised as design.
Beds cleaned, replanted, and mulched — a one-day refresh that reads all season.
The honest answers to the questions people ask while they're deciding.
Either. Plenty of yards don't need a redesign — they need pruning, an irrigation repair, and someone who shows up on schedule. We'll tell you which one you are at the estimate, even when the honest answer is the smaller job.
That's how most of our projects work, and it's the advantage of one crew: the patio, the lights above it, and the care that keeps it all sharp are planned together instead of bolted on by three different companies. One plan, one number, one call when you need something.
Depends on how you use it. Kids and dogs on it daily, no appetite for watering? Turf earns its keep — green all year on almost no water. Love the feel of real grass and don't mind the care? A well-built lawn with smart irrigation is hard to beat. We install both, so you get a straight comparison, not a sales pitch for whichever one we happen to sell.
Warning signs: brown patches next to soggy ones, a water bill creeping up, heads that mist instead of spray, or a controller nobody understands anymore. Often it's a repair and a smarter controller, not a new system. We check the whole line at the estimate and price both paths.
Both work. If you're redesigning anyway, we build defensible space into the plan from the first sketch — that's the cheapest time to do it. If your landscape is staying put, we do it as its own project: zone-by-zone assessment, fuel reduction, and fire-resistant swaps that keep the garden looking like a garden. More on how fire-smart works.
Yes, and it's common — a previous company retired, moved on, or stopped showing up. First visit, we walk the property and learn what's planted, what's plumbed, and what's been neglected. Then it goes on a schedule with a crew that treats it like they built it. [CONFIRM: Jerry's actual onboarding for takeover properties.]
Tell us about your space and we'll bring you a free, honest estimate.