For more than 25 years, we have been transforming yards with the ultimate in landscape design services. We are true artists, not just gardeners, so you can have the beautiful and functional space that is a feast for your eyes and spirit. We offer various services to accomplish that, including the installation of decks, fountains and other landscape water features, natural landscaping, landscape lighting, trellises, outdoor kitchens, pergolas, retaining walls, and much more!
Served areas
- Serving the Triangle including Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Wake Forest, Creedmoor, Morrisville, Apex, Holly Springs, Pittsboro, and surrounding areas
Services
While other landscape design professionals tend to stick to a few standard plant species and features, our philosophy extends beyond the standard garden palette. We also consider seasonal changes so that your landscape design is beautiful throughout the year. One of our passions is including indigenous plants in our artistic landscaping to support the environment and native plant species. Sustainable landscape design can help you feel like you are doing your part to support nature. 
Here at Garden Environments, we offer many different options that enable you to love your outdoor space and make it useable throughout the year, including outdoor kitchens. 
Having the right components in place allows you to make the most of your outdoor space. This area of you property can become an extension of your living space, especially when you live in an area like Durham, North Carolina, where the climate is moderate and pleasant throughout much of the year. At Garden Environments, we specialize in both landscape and hardscape installation and can help transform your property to add the elements you want for enhanced enjoyment. 
When we take on a residential landscaping project, we want to create an area that thrives and provides benefits to you, the property owner. As you look outside or spend time outdoors, you should feel proud of the space and peaceful as you surround yourself with lush greenery and native plants. 
Landscape lighting can be a valuable part of any landscaping endeavor, and our team here at Garden Environments would love to help you create landscape lighting that you can enjoy all year long.
Reviews (7)
Cansas Phipps Mulligan
Mar 30, 2021
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We used Garden Environments for a large project in our back yard. We worked with Jennifer who created a design that incorporated everything we wanted from the space. She worked patiently with us on all decision points and we're very happy with the plan and how it turned out. Beyond design, GE built a deck and firewood enclosure; installed two stepping stone paths, a set of stone slab steps, a concrete pad and a Chapel Hill grit patio; and planted one large garden and two
Tami Prager
Oct 01, 2020
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I liked the projects on their site, plus they are local, so we ended up contacting them & are currently working with them with our project. Will update this post as the project proceeds. UPDATE: The project has finally been completed. If I were ever to do it again, I would insist on starting either before winter or spring time. The project took longer than expected, due mostly to weather & a couple of their maintenance days. Ultimately I am happy with the result.
Lizz Alfano
Jul 11, 2020
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I had a really wonderful experience working with Garden Environments. The design team took my vision for our yard and made it even better. During our virtual review of their design plan, they walked me through their plant selections and let me make adjustments. The installation team was awesome--and so speedy! Everyone was incredibly friendly and professional, and I couldn't be happier with the final result. I would absolutely work with them again!
Tobi Glovinsky Bowen
May 23, 2015
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Thibault W.
Apr 30, 2014
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I hired Mike Lehmann, a landscapist with Garden Environments, to provide an estimate for installing a drainage system at my house. In addition, he provided estimates for grading, improving drainage, and landscaping at a rental property I own. He was very easy to work, knowledgable, and clearly passionate about what he does. Prior to moving here from Michigan, Mike owned his own landscaping firm, and writes beautifully on his website about the role of the garden in providing peace and tranquility. http://www.lehmanndesigngroup.com/16485.html After our initial meeting, he came back to look at the property to visualize what he wanted to do.
He answered all my questions with care, and thought through solutions with me, rather than trying to impose a framework. He was also flexible about breaking the project into smaller pieces so that I could make progress without breaking the bank, Mike did not charge additional fees for doing this, even though it involved sending his gardening team more than once to finish a job. My mother once hired a landscapist whom she eventually sent packing because he was too prescriptive. She was amazed by Mike flexibility. I would gladly work with Mike again.
He answered all my questions with care, and thought through solutions with me, rather than trying to impose a framework. He was also flexible about breaking the project into smaller pieces so that I could make progress without breaking the bank, Mike did not charge additional fees for doing this, even though it involved sending his gardening team more than once to finish a job. My mother once hired a landscapist whom she eventually sent packing because he was too prescriptive. She was amazed by Mike flexibility. I would gladly work with Mike again.
Tiffany M.
May 20, 2013
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Ashley T.
Jan 28, 2013
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People in the neighborhood recommended him. Landscape complications are hard to do and he does a really good job. He is good at working with me with-in my price point. He can be a little bit hard to get a hold of and he does work a little on his own schedule. He is a creative type. The price seemed reasonable. I will continue to use them.