Garden Design and Planting in Southeastern Pennsylvania

Blue Tree has served Southeastern Pennsylvania since 1983. Blue Tree designers plan custom gardens around the property's soil, light, drainage, mature plant size, and the way the homeowner wants to use the space. The relevant installation team then carries the approved plan into the field.

What Sets Blue Tree's Garden Design Apart

A garden is the layer that makes a landscape feel finished: the planting plan, the seasonal color, and the structure that carries a yard through winter and back into spring. Blue Tree designs gardens as part of the whole property, not as a tray of plants dropped along the foundation. A degreed designer studies your soil, drainage, sun, and the way you actually use the yard, then draws a planting plan matched to Southeastern Pennsylvania's clay soils, humid summers, and cold winters. Blue Tree has planted gardens across Montgomery, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Berks, and Philadelphia Counties since 1983, pairing native and proven ornamental species so the garden fills in, holds its shape, and looks intentional in every season.

Written by John Mattiola, a Blue Tree landscape designer with a Penn State degree in Landscape Contracting, and reviewed by senior designer Stephen Roehm.

Established
1 Year
Plant Replacement Warranty
70 to 90
Employees

Blue Tree's Garden Design and Planting Process

From the first site visit through design, planting, and the final walkthrough, the same Blue Tree designer keeps the plan tied to your soil, light, drainage, and goals.
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Step 1: Free On-Site Consultation

A dedicated Blue Tree designer visits the property to evaluate soil, light, existing plants, drainage, grade, access, and how the homeowner wants to use the space. The consultation is free, with no same-day pressure. The next step and current scheduling availability are confirmed after the visit.
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Step 2: Custom Design Presentation

The designer develops the planting layout, material palette, mature-size relationships, seasonal interest, and supporting site work. The homeowner reviews the plan and requested revisions before installation is scheduled.
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Step 3: Plant Selection & Sourcing

Blue Tree confirms the approved plant material through established growers and suppliers, with substitutions reviewed before ordering. Selection depends on availability, quality, site conditions, mature size, and the approved design.
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Step 4: Professional Installation

Installation crews prepare the approved areas, complete the specified soil, drainage, and grading work, and install plants at the planned locations and depths. Restoration and cleanup follow the approved scope and site conditions.
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Step 5: Aftercare & Warranty

Blue Tree provides a watering and care guide for the installed plant material and reviews the one-year, one-time replacement warranty. Ongoing bed maintenance and seasonal care are available through Premier Outdoor Services.

Garden Design Specialties for Every Property

Concrete planning beats a tray of plants set along the foundation. These are the garden types Southeastern Pennsylvania homeowners ask Blue Tree for most, each one designed around your light, your soil, and the way you actually use the yard.
A landscaped garden with vibrant purple coneflowers, ornamental grasses, and lush greenery borders a neatly mowed lawn beside a house, with tall trees in the background under soft sunlight.

Perennial Gardens

Layered perennials planned for a bloom relay from early spring through late fall, weighted toward low-maintenance, deer-aware varieties that thrive in Southeastern PA.
A modern backyard with a tall, dark wooden fence, green shrubs, and flowering plants alongside a stone pathway leading to steps and a door on a house. Mature trees provide shade and dappled sunlight.

Foundation Plantings

Layered shrubs and evergreens that frame the house, soften hard corners, and carry curb appeal straight through winter.
A large two-story house with stone and siding exterior sits behind a curved stone walkway, surrounded by manicured lawns, colorful flower beds, shrubs, and small trees, all bathed in warm sunlight.

Specimen & Focal-Point Plantings

Statement trees, ornamental specimens, and architectural plants placed to draw the eye and anchor the whole composition.
Lush garden with ferns and hostas under tall trees, bordered by a stone wall, next to a house in the background. Sunlight filters through the trees, creating a serene, shaded landscape.

Shade Gardens

Hostas, ferns, astilbe, and other shade-tolerant species that turn a dim, difficult corner into a lush, finished planting.
A row of tall, dense evergreen trees lines a manicured garden bed with shrubs and blooming hydrangeas, bordered by lush green grass and set against a backdrop of sunlit trees and a house on the left.

Privacy Screening & Hedgerows

Evergreen screens and mixed hedgerows planned for year-round privacy, noise reduction, and wind protection along property lines.
A beautiful garden with pink and white hydrangeas and lush green shrubs lines a stone retaining wall in front of a stone house in bright, sunny weather.

Garden Renovations

Removing tired or overgrown beds and replacing them with a fresh, modern planting that respects the home and the property's mature features.

Designed for Southeastern
Pennsylvania's Climate and Soil

Garden design in Southeastern Pennsylvania has to account for changing winters and summers, but conditions also vary from one property to the next. Blue Tree evaluates hardiness, light, soil, drainage, exposure, reflected heat, root competition, deer pressure, and mature-size constraints before recommending plants. The designer layers trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, and ground covers for structure and seasonal interest, then matches each selection to its specific location and the homeowner's maintenance plan. Native species can be strong choices when they fit the site, but no plant palette works everywhere. Soil preparation, drainage, grading, permit, and installation needs depend on the property and approved scope. Blue Tree confirms those requirements before material is ordered.
A curved stone walkway bordered by dark bricks winds through landscaped gardens with green shrubs, ornamental grasses, mulch, and solar path lights, leading to a patio area in a spacious yard.

Complete Your Garden with Lighting, Irrigation, and Ongoing Care

LED Landscape Lighting. Extend the garden into the evening with uplighting on specimen trees, soft path lighting through the beds, and accent lighting on focal points. Explore landscape lighting.

Drip Irrigation. Automated, low-volume watering that takes the guesswork out of establishment and keeps new plantings healthy through their first summers. Explore drip irrigation.

Seasonal Mulching and Bed Care. Annual mulch to hold moisture and suppress weeds, plus ongoing bed maintenance handled by the same team through Premier Outdoor Services.

Part of Blue Tree's Planting Design and Installation services, available across Montgomery, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Berks, and Philadelphia Counties.

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Curated Transformations

Browse recent garden and planting projects from across Montgomery, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Berks, and Philadelphia Counties.

Everything Your Outdoor
Space Needs. One Team.

From the pool to the patio to the plants that frame it all. We handle the full picture so nothing falls through the cracks.
A luxurious backyard pool features stone walls with multiple cascading waterfalls, built-in lights, fire bowls, and surrounding lush greenery and flowers, creating an elegant and relaxing outdoor space.

Custom Pools & Water Features

Resort-style pools, spas, waterfalls, and grottos, designed for your property, not from a catalog
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Patios, Walls & Outdoor Kitchens

Structures built to last generations by craftsmen who take pride in the details
A well-maintained front yard features neatly trimmed grass, vibrant flower beds, shrubs, and small trees in front of a stone house, all bathed in warm sunlight.

Landscape Design & Planting

Native plants, seasonal color, and designs that thrive in Southeastern PA's climate
A green fertilizer spreader sits on a neatly mowed lawn in front of a suburban house, surrounded by well-kept bushes and colorful flowers on a sunny day.

Lawn Programs

Science-backed fertilization, weed control, and aeration for the lawn your neighbors will notice
A large backyard with a lit swimming pool, lounge chairs, and landscaping at dusk. Trees and a house with glowing windows are visible under a darkening sky.

Landscape Lighting

Professionally designed LED systems that add safety, security, and ambiance after dark
A large, well-manicured green lawn in front of a stone house with landscaped flower beds, bushes, and small trees, surrounded by tall trees with autumn foliage.

Year-Round Care

Seasonal cleanups, pool service, and ongoing care that keeps everything looking its best

Common Questions

Blue Tree's 2026 planning range is $10,000 to $80,000 or more for landscape projects. Garden size, plant quantity and maturity, soil work, drainage, grading, access, lighting, and surrounding restoration affect the final proposal. Blue Tree confirms pricing after evaluating the property and approving the scope.

Timing depends on site complexity, design revisions, plant availability, installation season, soil and drainage work, weather, crew scheduling, and any required municipal review. Blue Tree confirms the design and installation schedule after those factors are known and recommends a planting window for the selected material and site.

No plant list works across every Southeastern Pennsylvania property. Blue Tree starts with light, soil, drainage, exposure, mature size, root competition, deer pressure, maintenance goals, and hardiness for the exact site. The designer then builds a plant palette and cross-checks it against current horticultural and manufacturer guidance before approval.

Southeastern PA gardens can vary sharply in soil depth, drainage, slope, exposure, and root competition. Blue Tree evaluates those conditions during the site visit before recommending amendments, drainage, and plants. The final design matches each plant to the property's light, soil, mature-size limits, and maintenance plan.

Maintenance depends on plant type and maturity, bed size, soil, moisture, exposure, weed pressure, and the homeowner's goals. Blue Tree provides a site-specific watering and care plan at handoff, explains the one-year, one-time plant replacement warranty, and can price ongoing seasonal care through Premier Outdoor Services.

Blue Tree has served Southeastern Pennsylvania since 1983, with degreed landscape designers and a 13 to 14 year average employee tenure. The same project team coordinates plant selection, soil, drainage, grading, lighting, hardscape, and aftercare around one approved design. Recommendations still begin with the current property's conditions, not a generic plant list.

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