Dedicated to providing creative, unique, & sustainable green spaces that promote healthy neighborhoods & businesses.
ABOUT US
We are a complete landscape design, installation, & maintenance company.
We have been proudly serving residential & commercial clients in Bloomfield Hills, MI, & surrounding areas for over 20 years.
Our Green-Thumbed Team
Here To Help
You Grow
EXPERIENCED & EDUCATED
We Are A Team
of diverse disciplines. Gardeners, builders, horticulturalists, and designers. We are dedicate to improving the health and beautification of residential and commercial landscapes.
Growing with You
Helping you grow allows us to enhance growth potential for our employees. We consistently attend workshops, conferences, and trade-shows, to both expand the knowledge of our crew and anticipate emerging trends in the garden, landscape, and outdoor industries.
We Are Proud
of our passionate and knowledgeable crew members, who are confident in both their muscles and minds to help you achieve your property and landscape dreams.
Bring order to your landscape
Our Services
Chances are if you’re redesigning a space like your backyard, you already have a general idea of how you want the space to look. Before breaking ground on your new project, however, consider obtaining landscape consultation services.
Among other perks, a landscape consultant will be able to solidify your ideas into an actionable plan, and help add or notice other features you may not have considered.
Meet with one of our professional consultants one-on-one to review your ideas; whether you already have a design or you’re looking for a new design, we can guide you in the right direction. Understanding our client’s vision is top priority. We want to create your perfect outdoor space and know it involves excellent communication and experienced industry knowledge.
A landscape consultation takes place at the client’s home and may serve either as the first step in the design process or as a self-contained informational and brainstorming session.
Prior to meeting for a consultation, the client should give thought to the following 4 questions:
1. What are the issues you would like to address on your property?
- Include all of the items on your wish list so that we can discuss various design ideas and prioritize potential projects. Some options might involve creating privacy or a quiet retreat, focusing attention on a special vista, assigning a place for children to play, designating a dining area, screening out unsightly views and laying out gardens or foundation plantings.
2. What are your aesthetic leanings regarding landscape design?
- Do you favor a particular style of landscape design (Formal, Informal, English Country, etc.)? Pictures taken from this websites, books, or magazines can provide helpful clues as to your preferences.
3. What is your maintenance level?
- If you will be maintaining the property yourself, how much time can you realistically allocate toward upkeep. Do you enjoy gardening? If you have a maintenance service, what is their skill set.
4. What is your budget for the entire project?
- Keep in mind that this figure may be allocated over more than one season.
At Sun & Shade Designs, Inc., we create our best work when we effectively collaborate with our clients. Our design process begins with an assessment of your needs. We start with a complementary site visit to discuss your vision and the scope of the landscape design project.
Understanding your wishes and needs is our top priority. By meeting with you in person, we can discuss your ideal space and present our own landscape design ideas so we can best create a design that will suite your needs and budget, now and into the future.
We will also examine the site and your existing landscaping, again working with you to decide what features will remain, be enhanced, or be replaced completely. Using this information, a proposal is developed which outlines the number of meetings, scope of design, final drawings and the costs associated with our services. Finally, we’ll present an estimate which clearly itemizes the design, including material cost, and construction schedule.
Beginning with a general layout of all the items on the client’s wish list, the design evolves to include specific hardscaping options (patios, walkways, fencing, etc) and plantings. Once completed, the plan serves as a basis for gathering accurate pricing from contractors and as a road map for landscape installation.
Our Landscape Design team has the creativity and expertise to transform your outdoor space. Beyond simple aesthetics, we consider all aspects of your property with a focus on providing a functional, usable, and beautiful space.
Enlisting the talents of a carefully selected group of landscape contractors, Sun & Shade designs,inc will coordinate and oversee every aspect of your landscape installation.
PLANTING
Installation of Plant Materials
Our maintenance services offer a large variety of options, which allow us to create highly customized service plans, to give you what your garden needs to thrive.
We take grounds maintenance seriously and know that the difference between you and your competitor can be as simple as the first impression. That starts when your customer arrives and experiences, an organized, clean and well-manicured site which presents the image of a highly regarded business.
View a comprehensive list of our maintenance, landscaping, & other outdoor services below.
Bring order to your landscape
Our Services
your full service property
consultation
Before breaking ground, lets
transform your ideas into a plan of action!
Review your ideas with one of our professional consultants one-on-one:
Whether you already have a design or you’re looking for a new design, we’re here to guide you in the right direction. Understanding your vision is top priority.
We’re here to help you realize & create the outdoor experience you’ve dreamed of. We understand this process involves excellent communication, as well as expert industry knowledge & talent.
Landscape consultation takes place at your home & may serve either as the first step in the design process or as a self-contained informational & brainstorming session.
Prior to consultation, think about
these 4 questions:
goals
What are your goals?
Write them down on your wish list so that we can discuss various design ideas and prioritize potential projects.
Some options might involve creating privacy or a quiet retreat, focusing attention on a special vista, assigning a place for children to play, designating a dining area, screening out unsightly views and laying out gardens or foundation plantings.
aesthetic
Do you favor a particular style of landscape design (Formal, Informal, English Country, etc.)?
Pictures taken from this website, books, or magazines can provide helpful clues as to your preferences.
maintenance
What is your maintenance level?
If you will be maintaining the property yourself, how much time can you realistically allocate toward upkeep. Do you enjoy gardening? If you have a maintenance service, what is their skill set.
budget
What is your budget for the entire project?
Keep in mind that this figure may be allocated over more than one season.
Our best work is a collaboration with you
Design
Plant a seed 🌱 with your ideas!
Let’s talk about the…
vision & scope of your design project.
During our free on-site visit, we’ll create a path to your design goals.
Listening, exchanging ideas, & establishing our shared vision.
We work with you to examine your property & existing landscape; deciding what features will remain, be enhanced, or be replaced entirely.
A proposal is developed, which outlines the number of meetings, scope of design, final drawings & services costs.
Lastly, we’ll present an estimate that clearly itemizes your design, including material cost, & construction schedule.
from general layout, to plants, patios, & walkways
Your design evolves
Our final design plan serves as a basis for gathering accurate pricing from contractors & as a road map for landscape installation.
Our Design Team has the creativity & expertise to transform your outdoor experience. Beyond simple aesthetics, we consider all aspects of your property, with a focus on providing a functional, enjoyable, and beautiful space.
Let’s get to work!
Installation
We coordinate & oversee
Your Entire landscape installation.
our carefully curated crew of contractors get it done!
Whether moving earth or planting trees & flowers, our team knows how to best place landscape elements carefully within your environment, so they can grow & thrive.
Large trees, accent hedges, flagstone pathways, small trees, & shrubs to perennial gardens; Sun & Shade designs, Inc. is here to take care of all your planting needs!
a schedule for growth & beauty
Maintenance
Cultivating what your landscape
needs to thrive!
Our wide variety of options allow us to create highly customized service plans, just for you.
We take grounds maintenance seriously & understand the impact of first impressions.
We are here to ensure that you always arrive to an organized, clean & well-manicured property, which presents the image of a highly regarded residence or business.
Chances are if you’re redesigning a space like your backyard, you already have a general idea of how you want the space to look. Before breaking ground on your new project, however, consider obtaining landscape consultation services.
Among other perks, a landscape consultant will be able to solidify your ideas into an actionable plan, and help add or notice other features you may not have considered.
Meet with one of our professional consultants one-on-one to review your ideas; whether you already have a design or you’re looking for a new design, we can guide you in the right direction. Understanding our client’s vision is top priority. We want to create your perfect outdoor space and know it involves excellent communication and experienced industry knowledge.
A landscape consultation takes place at the client’s home and may serve either as the first step in the design process or as a self-contained informational and brainstorming session.
Prior to meeting for a consultation, the client should give thought to the following 4 questions:
1. What are the issues you would like to address on your property?
- Include all of the items on your wish list so that we can discuss various design ideas and prioritize potential projects. Some options might involve creating privacy or a quiet retreat, focusing attention on a special vista, assigning a place for children to play, designating a dining area, screening out unsightly views and laying out gardens or foundation plantings.
2. What are your aesthetic leanings regarding landscape design?
- Do you favor a particular style of landscape design (Formal, Informal, English Country, etc.)? Pictures taken from this websites, books, or magazines can provide helpful clues as to your preferences.
3. What is your maintenance level?
- If you will be maintaining the property yourself, how much time can you realistically allocate toward upkeep. Do you enjoy gardening? If you have a maintenance service, what is their skill set.
4. What is your budget for the entire project?
- Keep in mind that this figure may be allocated over more than one season.
At Sun & Shade Designs, Inc., we create our best work when we effectively collaborate with our clients. Our design process begins with an assessment of your needs. We start with a complementary site visit to discuss your vision and the scope of the landscape design project.
Understanding your wishes and needs is our top priority. By meeting with you in person, we can discuss your ideal space and present our own landscape design ideas so we can best create a design that will suite your needs and budget, now and into the future.
We will also examine the site and your existing landscaping, again working with you to decide what features will remain, be enhanced, or be replaced completely. Using this information, a proposal is developed which outlines the number of meetings, scope of design, final drawings and the costs associated with our services. Finally, we’ll present an estimate which clearly itemizes the design, including material cost, and construction schedule.
Beginning with a general layout of all the items on the client’s wish list, the design evolves to include specific hardscaping options (patios, walkways, fencing, etc) and plantings. Once completed, the plan serves as a basis for gathering accurate pricing from contractors and as a road map for landscape installation.
Our Landscape Design team has the creativity and expertise to transform your outdoor space. Beyond simple aesthetics, we consider all aspects of your property with a focus on providing a functional, usable, and beautiful space.
Enlisting the talents of a carefully selected group of landscape contractors, Sun & Shade designs,inc will coordinate and oversee every aspect of your landscape installation.
Planting is an essential part of a landscape design and requires various types of trees, shrubs and flowers carefully located within an environment in which they can thrive.
Our maintenance services offer a large variety of options, which allow us to create highly customized service plans, to give you what your garden needs to thrive.
We take grounds maintenance seriously and know that the difference between you and your competitor can be as simple as the first impression. That starts when your customer arrives and experiences, an organized, clean and well-manicured site which presents the image of a highly regarded business.
View a comprehensive list of our maintenance, landscaping, & other outdoor services below.
Services
Maintenance Management
Services
Maintenance Management
Services
Maintenance Management
Spring clean ups are very important to start promoting healthy lawn and garden beds. We offer a number of services to accomplish this.
With every scheduled cleanup, our crews will come out to your property and blow out all of the fallen buds and debris from your flower beds left over from the winter and other areas that require freshening up.
During the springtime, it is highly recommended to aerate or fertilize your lawn as well. During this time you may also be interested in getting your existing landscaping or flowerbeds refreshed with a new layer of mulch.
We order and deliver the material directly to you and disperse the mulch throughout your landscaping-saving you the hassle! Tilling, edging and weeding of garden beds along with trimming of shrubs and plants are available upon request.
This service is completed in April unless otherwise stated.
MULCHING Top Dressing
Top-dressing your garden beds with mulch inhibits weed growth by covering the soil and depriving the weed seeds of light which they require to germinate. Mulch also helps maintain a healthy consistent level of moisture which is a big part of growing healthy plants.
COMPOST Top Dressing
Applying nutrient rich compost and/or organic fertilizers around established plants in your garden beds will assist with root growth, water retention and soil compaction. This is a recommended service for established garden beds.
- A General Maintenance schedule is key to keeping your property healthy & beautiful.
- We provide weeding, tree & shrub trimming, plant dead heading, pet waste removal, garden bed cleaning & more.
- Contact us to talk about Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, or customized maintenance service plans.
Trimming and pruning are essential to gardening and if completed correctly, trees, shrubs and evergreens will be superior in health and appearance.
We offer a large range of trimming and shaping services for evergreens, conifers, flowering vines and shrubs that occur in the season specific to the tree or shrub being maintained.
After the season is done, the most important step to healthy lawn and garden beds is to have a fall yard clean up done. Leaving all of your leaves from the fall is not only harmful but very damaging to your lawn.
As with spring clean ups, our crews will come out to your property, remove fallen leaves, branches and other unwanted organic yard debris. All garden beds will be blown out, edged, turned over and weeded.
This service is completed in November, unless otherwise stated.
- Our shrub & lawn care programs utilize granular fertilizing to ensure their growth and health.
- We provide winter burlap protection for your plants & shrubs to safeguard them from both salt & harsh winter weather.
- Our team provides winter pruning services to maintain the health & control the shape of your shrubs & plants during the colder months.
- The animal lovers on our team provide general pet care services such as, playing, walking, feeding, & waste removal to keep your furry friends & yard happy!
- Our pressure washing services keep your patios, walkways, & driveways looking clean and new! Contact us to revitalize your dirty pavers, concrete, timbers, & decks.
Services
Installation & Other Services
Services
Installation & Other Services
- We offer expert landscape design services to help you create a stunning outdoor experience that reflects your unique style & personality, while being conscious of your properties impact on local ecology & wildlife.
- From trees, garden beds, & sodding, to retaining walls, & grading to shape the topography of your property, we specialize in complete landscape renovation projects that transform your outdoor space into a beautiful & functional oasis.
- Our hardscape services include the design & installation of beautiful & durable features such as, flagstone pathways, boulder walls, & timber retaining walls.
- Installation services for seasonal flowers & bulbs to beautify your garden during summer & fall.
- We provide decorative planter pots to enhance the beauty of your property thoughout every season.
- Our holiday lighting & decoration services help you create a festive & inviting outdoor experience during the holiday season. Dynamic lighting, garland, wreaths, and other decorations.
- We provide safe & efficient tree & stump removal services to help you maintain a beautiful & healthy outdoor space.
- Our over-seeding & sodding services help you achieve a lush & vibrant lawn that both looks great & adds value to your property.
- Design & installation of functional pavers & walls to create patios, walk-ways, steps, retaining walls, & pillars.
- Manage excess or standing water problems & prevent damage to your property with our drainage tile installation for lawn & garden beds.
- Our irrigation services include the installation, repair, & winterization of irrigation systems to ensure that your lawn & plants are properly hydrated throughout the year.
- We provide outdoor furniture setup & storage services to help you create a comfortable & inviting outdoor experience.
- Our outdoor low-voltage services focus on the installation & repair of landscape lighting, to enhance the safety and functionality of your outdoor space.
Our projects
Gallery
Before & After
Our Green-Thumbed Team
Here to Help You Grow
EXPERIENCED & EDUCATED
We are a team
of diverse disciplines. Gardeners, builders, horticulturalists, and designers. We are dedicated to improving the health and beautification of residential and commercial landscapes.
Growing with You
Helping you grow allows us to enhance growth potential for our employees. We consistently attend workshops, conferences, and trade-shows, to both expand the knowledge of our crew and anticipate emerging trends in the garden, landscape, and outdoor industries.
We Are Proud
of our passionate and knowledgeable crew members, who are confident in both their muscle and mind to help you achieve your property and landscape dreams.
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We look forward to sharing with you what we’ve been learning about nature & our experiences in the beautiful Michigan outdoors!
We would love to hear from you
Get In Touch!
- 248-723-2738
- sunandshadedesigns@gmail.com
- P.O. Box 7201, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48302
Whether you have questions about our services, want to book a consultation, or simply have a suggestion for our team, we are here to help you build and grow!
We would love to hear from you
Get In Touch
Whether you have questions about our services, want to book a consultation, or simply have a suggestion for our team, we are here to help you build and grow.
- 248-723-2738
- sunandshadedesigns@gmail.com
- P.O. Box 7201, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48302