Installation With A Good Earth Maintenance
BOULDER CASE STUDIES 2025
Fountain St
Patio
BEFORE
CONCEPT
AFTER
THE DESIGN PLAN
Landscape
BEFORE
CONCEPT
AFTER
THE DESIGN PLAN
Kohler Street
Front Entrance
BEFORE
CONCEPT
AFTER
THE DESIGN PLAN
6th Street
Full Yard Landscape
BEFORE
AFTER
FINAL PRINTOUT OF THE DESIGN PLAN
Good Design Is Layered
Our Design Process Will Walk You Through
√ NATIVE PLANT SELECTION or LANDSCAPE RESTORATION
√ NATURAL SOLUTIONS TO ELEMENTAL IMBALANCE
√ IDENTIFY STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
√ RESILIENT SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR PROPERTY’S NEEDS
√ BACKYARD SCALE HERB OR VEGETABLE GROWING (WHERE APPLICABLE)
√ TEAM BUILDING OR VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECO-SOCIAL RESILIENCE WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY
Request A Free Consult To Assess Your Ecological Project Impact
See Regenerative Design In Action
SACRED ALIGNMENT
LAYERED NATIVE HABITAT
SMALL SPACES
How Is Regenerative Design Changing Our World?
“PEOPLE TRAVEL THE WORLD OVER TO VISIT UNTOUCHED PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY.
YET MODERN GARDENS PAY LITTLE HEED TO THE SIMPLICTY AND BEAUTY OF THESE ENVIRONMENTS.
THOSE SPECIAL PLACES WE MUST PRESERVE AND PROTECT, EACH IN OUR OWN WAY, BEFORE THEY ARE LOST FOREVER.”
—MARY REYNOLDS, Chelsea Competition Application, 2002
A Walk Through The Design Process
CREATE AN INITIAL CONCEPT
A DESIGN CONCEPT is the next step. This is a basic sketch, where we imagine and visualize a desired spatial layout with gestalt references. The focus here is really about laying foundations of form, functionality, and use of space, not so much what it will look like yet.
Your Conceptual Design phase includes:
• Site Observations + Analysis
• Listing Goals and focal-points, including visual preferences
• Sketches or basic reference drawings
• Digital mock up of ideas (optional)
Colorado Photo by Lisa Olson
INSTALL YOUR LANDSCAPE
WE RECOMMEND INSTALLATION WITH HUMBERT’S TEAM “A GOOD EARTH MAINTENANCE”
Since 1986, the team has brought top notch service to the front range. When Humberto took ownership in 2018, he doubled his comittment to existing high quality services and expanded our landscape and environmental approaches.
Services and trust factor.
A Good Earth Maintenance offers professional custom hardscape builds, landscape, planting, irrigation installation, and seasonal lawn care. We have a high retention rate with our customers. This can be attributed to our attention to detail, professional demeanor and competitive pricing. We offer both residential and commercial services.
Accredited member of the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating.
We want your project to reflect the excellence in our craftsmanship as well as the pride we take in our work.
LISTEN + OBSERVE
INTEGRATED CONCEPTS EMERGE
As part of your REGENERATIVE DESIGN process, this is an exciting phase.
We start with DIRECT OBSERVATION over time and use of your IMAGINATION to begin creating what you envision from what currently exists. This is the best way to get to know the property and truly understand what is needed. This initial step will help you highlight how your goals can fit into in the context of the informed environment by knowing what to listen and look for in the land. We elicit your experience for information as well as our own observations to help guide the initial assessment. This kickstarts a ‘conversation’ with the existing elements that informs the emerging design.
The purpose is to find the optimal relationships between various spaces in the landscape, as well as between the landscape and the existing home or environment, and also between those who use the space and the environment. We may use circles, bubbles, or swaths to indicate areas we are dreaming into being. Think outside the box, follow your hunches, imagine movement, experience, exploration and discovery. We ask which of our inspired concepts solve the identified needs or satisfy your preferences most elegantly, most originally, and most efficiently.
• Considering use of space, and new ideas
• Accounting for microclimate, elements, neighborhood or natural influences
• Listing challenges and possible solutions
• Dreaming new spaces into being
DEVELOP + EVOLVE YOUR DESIGN
HONE YOUR ORIGINAL DESIGN This phase provides you with a chance to insert iterations or revisions to your design for a fuller and more detailed development of your desired direction based on the initial concept.
Reference pictures for plants, materials, custom features, or additional research are also explored. Reference a curated plant list with native botanical names and reference pictures, as well as suggested local materials if applicable. As in permaculture, specific elements command their own layer, so that select layers highlight different relevant features of the whole design, including: structures, utilities, soft/hardscape, irrigation, lighting, permaculture principles, usage, etc.
