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Landscaping in Citrus Heights
Citrus Heights is roughly twenty minutes northwest of Folsom, an incorporated city in Sacramento County built out largely through the 1970s and 1980s. Most yards here are on their original landscape, which puts them at exactly the age where everything needs attention at once.
A yard installed forty years ago is a yard with a specific and predictable failure list: irrigation valves at end of life, a controller with no restricted-schedule capability, shrubs three times the size of the beds they occupy, and a lawn taking up two thirds of the water budget for a fraction of the use. Doing those piecemeal costs more than doing them together, because each one involves opening the same ground. The efficient sequence is to renovate irrigation and planting in one scope.
Lawn conversions are the highest-value single move in this part of the region, because the lots are modest and the lawns are large relative to them. At $8 to $18 per square foot installed, converting an 800 square foot front lawn lands between $6,500 and $14,500, and the resulting yard needs a fraction of the water under a restricted watering schedule. The design work that makes the difference is keeping structure: massed low planting in front, mid-height behind, and one small tree, so the front reads as designed rather than merely de-lawned.
Drainage complaints are common in the flatter Citrus Heights neighborhoods, where there is not much natural fall to work with. When a yard has nowhere obvious downhill to send water, the answers are a shallow swale routed to the street, a drywell where soil percolation allows it, or regrading the affected area to at least move standing water off the foundation. Confirming where the discharge is permitted to go is part of the design, not an afterthought.
Landscaping scopes in Citrus Heights
Landscape Design and Installation
Full yard design and build, from planting plan and grading through irrigation, lighting, and finish planting
Drought Tolerant Landscaping
Lawn conversions and low-water planting designed around Folsom watering rules and a rainless summer
Front Yard Landscaping
Curb appeal work for Folsom front yards, including HOA-friendly planting plans and entry walkways
Hardscaping, Patios and Retaining Walls
Patios, paver walkways, seat walls, and engineered retaining walls for Folsom slopes
Irrigation and Drainage
Sprinkler and drip system work, controller programming, and winter runoff control
Backyard Landscaping and Outdoor Living
Back yard builds with shade, seating, and planting that survive a Folsom summer
Field Notes
Recent writing for Citrus Heights homeowners
The Folsom landscaping calendar, month by month
When to plant, when to build hardscape, when to book a crew, and when to leave the yard alone. A month by month landscaping calendar for Folsom, California.
Landscaping a new-build lot south of Highway 50
What a builder hands over on a new Folsom lot, why compacted ground is the first real cost, the two clocks running, and the order to tackle a blank pad in.
Which shade trees are worth planting in Folsom
Which shade trees are worth planting in Folsom, CA: fast growers, long-term natives, and where to place either one so it shades the wall that matters most.
Planning something for a yard in Citrus Heights?
Ring (916) 282-5150, or send the form, and a local landscaping company prices the work for nothing anywhere around Folsom.