America The Beautiful Landscape Design
About us
Turning Ordinary Yards into Extraordinary Gardens. We create landscape plans you'll love. We consider your preferences, property and budget creatively create a plan that meets your needs. First Choice Incorporated (a Washington corporation) dba America The Beautiful Landscape Design was founded by Jeff Naramor in 1998. Jeff Naramor, resident of Vancouver, has over twenty five years experience in northwest landscaping including maintenance (3 years), landscape construction management (10 years),landscape construction contractor (7 years) and Landscape designer (5 years). Experience includes grading, soils, drainage, irrigation, lighting, hardscapes, and planting. Jeff received his horticultural and design training through Lake Washington Technical College and Edmonds Community College. He has maintained professional industry certification including CPH (Certified Professional Horticulturist), ICPI (Certified concrete paver Installer), NCMA (Certified Retaining wall Installer, and VISTA (Certified Outdoor Lighting Contractor). America The Beautiful has a unique approach to landscape design. Our business is all about our clients. We work very hard to turn every yard into an extraordinary landscape. People want a landscape that gives them a return on their investment of increased property values, natural beauty, personal garden retreat space for relaxation, and lower maintenance. As we work with clients, we strive to design the best landscape solutions for their values.
Business highlights
Services we offer
From concept to completion, childrens play areas, consultation and project consultation. We design everything outside your house including grading, decks, drainage, hard surfaces, irrigation, outdoor lighting, patios, plants, retaining walls, rock outcroppings. We also refer our clients to qualified contractors who will follow your plan in order to install the landscape of your dreams., walkways, water features, we offer Landscape design
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"[Removed member name] didn't seem to have a problem with the design work I did for him when it was finished. I even asked him, and he said everything looked great as I told him we could change anything he wanted to be changed on the plan. I only do design, not installation, but, I do select the plants. Two-Three months after the contractor installed the landscape, [Removed member name] called and complained about a Rhododendron that was burning up in the heat. When I went to meet with him, I found the contractor had installed the wrong variety of Rhododendron, which was obviously not the one specified on plan. I spend considerable time specifying plant varieties on plan with careful attention to shun, shade, irrigation, drainage and soil. Unless contracted to manage the job, it is not my responsibility to assure the contractor installs the job correctly. [Removed member name] also complained about his beautiful columnar white pines dropping needles, but of course I can't control the natural course of healthy plants. Pines are considered low maintenance , but of coarse pine needles are natural. I'm sorry that [Removed member name] is not happy with these relatively small problems, but I am the designer, not the contractor and am not responsible if the plan is not followed or understood."
"[removed member name], Thank you for your kind review. I look forward to continuing to work with you as you develop your absolutely beautiful property. Sincerely, Jeff Naramor"
the successful completion of our job. He provided a detail design and a plan
for how we could do the job ourselves. After a few weeks of effort, it became
clear the job was too big for us. He recommended a contractor, who I hired.
Jeff managed the construction and it all turned out beautifully.
His advice and recommendations helped make our project
successful. We now have a safe play area with beautiful retaining walls. It is built
to code, properly drains and looks great. I highly recommend Jeff.
Jeff is also DIY friendly. He encouraged us to do as much of the work ourselves in order to extend our budget, but also knew some of the things we may want to consider hiring a contractor for. He produced a plan that was within our budget, timeline, and desires for the usage of the space.
Jeff was easy to work with, on time, and produced exactly what we wanted. The fee was on the high end of what we wanted to spend, but we feel we got a quality design.
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