Landscape design
Hand-drawn site sketches that respect grade, sun angle, and the way you actually use the yard. Native and adapted plant palette, AZ low-water selections, ramada and shade structure layouts.
Glendale, AZ — West Valley Phoenix
Designed for the desert. Built to stay there.
A family-run landscape design + build crew in Glendale since 2008. Xeriscape, pavers, walls, drip, drainage. Across the West Valley, free walkthroughs anywhere we work. Hablamos español.
USA Landscaping & Design
USA Landscaping & Design
USA Landscaping & Design
About USA Landscaping & Design
Seventeen years drawing yards that belong in the Sonoran.
We opened in Glendale in 2008. Family-owned then, family-owned now. The truck still leaves from the same address on N 64th Drive — and most of the names on this year's schedule have been on it for more than a decade.
The "& Design" in the name isn't decoration. Every project starts on paper. We listen to how you actually live in the back yard, walk the lot, sketch a layout that respects the grade and the sun, then price the build. No pre-templated package. No "three-tier" upsell. One sketch, one number, one crew.
What we install — pavers, block walls, flagstone, drip, sprinkler, turf, drainage, and a plant palette that doesn't die in July — is sized for the climate it has to live in. Compacted base. Polymeric joints. Pressure-regulated emitters. Native and adapted species set on real footings. The desert is hard on shortcuts. We don't take them.
One sketch, one number, one crew. The "& Design" isn't decoration.
— The USA Landscaping & Design family
How a project runs — design + build
Listen. Sketch. Source. Build. Hand off.
Five steps. Same five since 2008. The sketch goes on paper before anything goes in the ground.
Free walkthrough
Listen
We come out, walk the lot with you, and ask the questions that change the design — sun angle, grade, where the sprinkler heads die, where the kids actually play. No tablet, no clipboard performance. Just listening.
Hand-drawn on paper
Sketch
Back at the truck, we draw a layout. Pencil, paper, eraser marks. Plant placements, hardscape footprint, drip lines, where the water has to go in July. You see the sketch before you see the number — and you mark it up before we order anything.
A real first-pass sketch — pencil on paper, then your marks Materials before crew
Source
Pavers, block, drip parts, plants — we order them and stage them at the address before the crew shows up. No "day three, we need to run for parts." The build day starts with everything on site.
Week-by-week schedule
Build
Demo, base prep, hardscape, irrigation, planting, finish. Most builds run two to four weeks depending on scope. The site is cleaned every evening. You get a text when each phase wraps so you can walk it before we start the next one.
Planting calendar + 30-day check-in
Hand-off
When we pack up we leave a one-page planting + watering calendar tuned to the species we put in. Thirty days later we come back, walk the yard with you, top off mulch, and adjust drip if anything needs it. No invoice for the visit.
What we do — West Valley
Six lines of work, all designed first.
Each service is something we drew, sourced, and installed ourselves. No subcontracted-out turnover.
Pavers & flagstone
Dry-laid paver patios, walkways, and pool decks. Compacted aggregate base, polymeric joints, edging that holds. Cut and color-matched on site.
Block & retaining walls
CMU and decorative block — garden walls, retaining work, planter walls, pony walls. Footers right, courses level, caps clean.
Drip irrigation & sprinklers
Pressure-regulated drip emitters sized for native plants. Sprinkler installs, valve repairs, controller swaps. Built for the AZ pre-emergent calendar.
Turf — live and artificial
Sod installs (bermuda or fescue overseed) on real prep work. Artificial turf with proper base and drainage so it doesn't bake the substrate.
Drainage & monsoon-flow
Regraded swales, French drains, dry creek beds, and area drains sized for July storms. The yard moves the water; you don't.
The plant palette
Six species we lean on — designed for July.
Native and adapted species we draw into almost every yard. Sized for a real lot. Watered for an AZ summer. Sketched into the composition, not dropped in afterward.
Saguaro
Very lowCarnegiea gigantea
30–40 ft, columnar
The signature. Slow to set, lifetime to live. Anchor of any front-yard composition we draw.
Palo verde
Very lowParkinsonia microphylla / hybrids
20–25 ft, multi-trunk
Yellow bloom in spring, light-dappled summer shade. The state tree, and the workhorse shade canopy of every yard we design.
Mesquite
LowProsopis velutina
25–30 ft, broad canopy
Velvet-mesquite native. Filters sun, drops fine leaf litter that mulches under itself. Goes near patios — not over pavers.
Ocotillo
Very lowFouquieria splendens
8–20 ft, splayed stems
Vertical sculpture. Red flame-tip flowers after monsoon. Sketches like nothing else. We plant it where the eye needs to go up.
Agave
Very lowAgave parryi / americana
2–5 ft rosette
Mid-ground anchor. Geometric, theft-proof, shrugs off July. We use parryi closer to walks, americana out where it can spread.
Brittlebush
Very lowEncelia farinosa
3–4 ft mound
Silver-gray foliage with bright yellow daisy flowers in spring. Soft filler that holds together a saguaro/ocotillo composition.
Plus the supporting cast — desert spoon, red yucca, prickly pear, chuparosa, golden barrel, blue palo verde — drawn in where the composition wants them.
How a job runs
Five steps, no runaround.
- 01
Phone call
Call (623) 518-8861. Tell us the address and what you're picturing. Five minutes is enough.
- 02
Free walkthrough
We come out, walk the property, ask the questions that change the price. Hablamos español.
- 03
Sketch + estimate
Hand-drawn layout and an itemized written number on the same paper. No surprise upsells later.
- 04
Scheduled work
We pick a window with you. Most builds land within 2–4 weeks. Materials arrive before the crew does.
- 05
Walkthrough + invoice
We don't pack up until you've walked the finished yard and you're satisfied.
That’s it. No portals, no logins — a phone call or an email is all it takes.
Where we work
The West Valley, drawn by hand.
Glendale home base since 2008. We run jobs out across the West Valley and into north Phoenix. We don't run east of the I-17 — keeps response time tight when something needs a same-week look.
- Surprise
- Sun City West
- Sun City
- Peoria
- Glendale· home base
- Litchfield Park
- Goodyear
- North Phoenix
What people say
Quiet pride, loud results.
Backyard tear-out and full xeriscape redesign in Sun City West. They sketched it on paper before quoting — every other bid was a copy-pasted package. Two monsoons in, the grade still drains where they said it would.
Paver patio with a built-in fire pit out in Litchfield Park. Compacted base, polymeric joints, the works. Came in at the number on the estimate — no day-three change order.
Block retaining wall on a sloped lot in Peoria. They explained the footer, the rebar layout, the cap detail before any concrete went in. Felt like working with a builder, not a yard crew.
Drip system rebuild and new low-water plant install in Goodyear. Hablan español, which made it easy for my dad to walk through what he wanted with them. Plants are thriving going into year two.
Front yard regrade plus DG and a new flagstone walkway in Surprise. Family operation, on time, cleaned the site every evening. Phones answered before 7 AM.
- Yelp
USA Landscaping & Design has been at this in Glendale for as long as I've owned the house — sixteen years. Same family, same standard. Trust them with anything outside.
Recent work — West Valley
A few yards we drew first.
Sun City West — full front-yard redesign 
Litchfield Park — paver patio with seat wall 
Glendale — DG walk + cactus garden 
Peoria — retaining wall on slope 
North Phoenix — xeriscape conversion 
Surprise — front yard regrade + DG 
Goodyear — agave specimen install 
Sun City — saguaro + barrel front yard 
Glendale — flagstone side yard 
Peoria — drip + sprinkler rebuild 
Litchfield Park — designed planting bed 
Glendale — palm-anchor front yard
Honest pricing
Sketches and walkthroughs arefreeanywhere we work
Design + build pricing depends on the lot, the grade, and how much old material has to come out. We won't quote a yard sight unseen — but the walkthrough is free, the hand-drawn sketch is free, and the written estimate is on the same paper.
We cover Glendale, Peoria, Surprise, Sun City, Sun City West, Litchfield Park, Goodyear, and North Phoenix.
Call (623) 518-8861Questions
Plain answers, no runaround.
Since 2008. Same family, same Glendale address on N 64th Drive, seventeen years.
Call us — Mon–Sun, 6 to 7
— USA Landscaping & Design
If we're on a job we'll call back the same day. Glendale, AZ. Hablamos español.