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Landscaping · Bakersfield, California

Landscape Design & Build in Bakersfield

Elite Landscaping LLC designs, builds and plants yards across Bakersfield — graded and drained first, then planted for Valley heat, clay soil and hard water so they establish instead of struggle.

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About Elite Landscaping LLC

One Crew for the Grade, the Base, the Plants and the Water

Elite Landscaping LLC is a landscaping contractor in Bakersfield working across three services — landscape design and installation, hardscaping and outdoor living, and irrigation and drainage. Most projects touch two or three at once.

Keeping them under one crew is the point. The drainage gets thought about before the patio goes in, the irrigation is zoned to the planting instead of bolted on after, and the grade is set once, to fall away from the house. One point of contact from the first walkthrough to the last.

How the work is done
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The Order of Work

  1. Grade and drainage
  2. Base and hardscape
  3. Soil, irrigation, planting

Done in this order, a yard establishes instead of fighting the ground it sits on.

How the Work Is Done

What Holds Up Two Years Later

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Grade · Base · Planting · Water

  1. Grade Set First

    Before anything is planted or paved, the ground is shaped to fall away from the house — a minimum of two percent for the first ten feet — and toward where the water is meant to go.

  2. Clay Soil Opened Up

    Bakersfield's dense, alkaline clay gets compost and gypsum tilled into the top six to eight inches. This is the step that decides whether plants establish in two years or struggle for five.

  3. Base Built in Lifts

    Under every patio and wall, road base goes in a few inches at a time and each layer is compacted on its own. One thick uncompacted layer is why paver fields go wavy — so it is never done that way here.

  4. Zoned to the Planting

    Irrigation valves are grouped by how much water each area of plants actually needs, so a thirsty lawn and a dry native bed are never fighting over the same run time.

  5. Drained to Daylight

    Every drain line is cut to fall and routed to a real outlet — the street, a swale, a dry well, or a sump where a flat lot has no gravity fall. Nothing is left to pond against the slab.

  6. One Written Number

    Scope and price in writing before work is scheduled, broken out by area so a section can be deferred without redrawing the whole plan. The phone figure is a range; the signed estimate is the number.

Why Elite Landscaping LLC

What Working With Us Is Like

One Crew, Not Three Trades

Design, hardscape and irrigation under one contact, so the grade, the base, the planting and the water are decided together instead of by separate crews pointing at each other.

A Number You Can Read

The written estimate is itemised by area — demo, grade, soil, hardscape, irrigation, planting — so you can see where the money goes and defer a section without starting over.

Built for Ten Years, Not Ten Months

The parts nobody sees — compaction, soil prep, drainage, zoning — are where the budget goes, because that is what decides whether the yard still looks right after a few Bakersfield summers.

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Elite Landscaping LLC · Bakersfield, California

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