Landscape · Hardscape · Concrete — Alamo, CA
Landscaping & hardscape
in Alamo
Alamo lots are big, wooded and semi-rural, which makes them some of the most rewarding properties in the county to work on — and some of the easiest to get wrong. We plan the whole site before touching any of it.
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“What an amazing transformation! Dylan took our vision for the front yard and porch and turned it into something even better than we imagined.”
Candy G. · Google review
Why Homeowners Choose Us
Why Alamo homeowners
hire DMG
Hiring a contractor is mostly a question of whether the person quoting is the person who turns up. Here is what you get with us.
One in-house crew
The same faces from the first walkthrough to the final clean-up. No subcontractors, ever — so nobody shows up not knowing what was agreed.
The price in writing first
A detailed written proposal before anyone breaks ground, and a fixed price we hold to. No surprise change orders halfway through.
Built for Contra Costa clay
Deeper excavation, a compacted base that absorbs seasonal movement, and joints placed where the slab wants to crack. The reason our work is still flat years later.
Design and build together
One company draws it and one company builds it. Nothing gets lost in the handoff between a designer and whoever ends up holding the shovel.
A reply within 24 hours
Every enquiry answered within one business day, and a direct line to the person actually running your project once it starts.
Licensed and insured
Fully licensed and insured, with references a few streets away. Ask and we will point you at work you can go and look at.
Client Stories
What our clients say
We let the work — and the people who live with it — speak for themselves.
What We Do in Walnut Creek
Every service, one crew,
no handoffs
Design, earthwork, hardscape and planting are all ours. That is why the drainage gets solved before the patio goes down, instead of becoming someone else’s problem after it.
Plantings, lawn installation, irrigation systems, and seasonal color — expertly installed and built to thrive through every Bay Area season.
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Landscape Design & Installation
Plantings, lawn installation, irrigation systems, and seasonal color — expertly installed and built to thrive through every Bay Area season.
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Patios, pergolas, kitchens, fire features, and pools that extend your living space — designed as a natural extension of your home.
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Hardscape & Outdoor Living
Patios, pergolas, kitchens, fire features, and pools that extend your living space — designed as a natural extension of your home.
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Site grading, excavation, and drainage solutions that protect your property and set the foundation for everything above.
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Excavation & Earthwork
Site grading, excavation, and drainage solutions that protect your property and set the foundation for everything above.
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Full-scale landscaping for business parks, HOAs, and corporate campuses — managed by one accountable team year-round.
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Commercial Services
Full-scale landscaping for business parks, HOAs, and corporate campuses — managed by one accountable team year-round.
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Privacy fencing, ornamental gates, and boundary improvements that add security, value, and curb appeal to your property.
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Fencing & Property Improvements
Privacy fencing, ornamental gates, and boundary improvements that add security, value, and curb appeal to your property.
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Driveways, foundations, retaining walls, and decorative stonework built to endure decades of Bay Area weather.
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Concrete & Masonry
Driveways, foundations, retaining walls, and decorative stonework built to endure decades of Bay Area weather.
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Safe, efficient site clearance, structure demolition, and debris removal — leaving your property clean and project-ready.
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Demolition & Hauling
Safe, efficient site clearance, structure demolition, and debris removal — leaving your property clean and project-ready.
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Questions about working
in Alamo
Have a question we haven’t answered? Call or send a message — we respond within 24 hours.
Contact UsThat is most of what we do on lots this size. Design, excavation, drainage, hardscape, planting and lighting under one contract and one schedule.
Often, and we will tell you where it saves money and where it just means paying to mobilise twice. Earthwork, drainage and hardscape generally want to happen together; planting and lighting can usually wait a season.
Not if it is planned around them. Where a design and a tree genuinely conflict, we say so and change the design.
Generally depends on height. California’s building code exempts walls up to four feet from the bottom of the footing to the top; above that, or where it holds a slope or driveway, a permit is normally required. We confirm with the county before designing.
Weeks rather than days, and the honest number depends on access and earthwork. You get a written schedule with the written price before we start.
Serving Alamo
Twenty minutes down the 680
We work out of Concord, a straight run down the 680. Close enough for a site visit the same week, and close enough that a long build does not lose an hour a day to travel.
We are a design-and-build outfit, so one company handles the drawing, the earthwork, the hardscape and the planting. Every service below is ours — none of it is handed to a subcontractor once you have signed.
What We Run Into Here
What we run into
on these properties
Alamo lots have enough in common to plan for, and planning for it is most of the job.
Scale changes the problem
On an acre, runoff crosses a lot of ground before it leaves, and every low point on the way becomes a wet patch that never dries. Drainage here is a route planned end to end, not a drain dropped where the puddle is.
Oaks you are not going to replace
Alamo’s canopy is most of why the place looks the way it does. Established oaks object to root cutting, compaction and changes to how water moves around the trunk. We lay hardscape out to keep clear of all three.
Semi-rural means fewer assumptions
No sidewalks, long driveways, sometimes septic, sometimes a creek easement. We check what is actually on your parcel rather than assuming a standard subdivision lot.
Recent Projects
Work from around
Contra Costa County
A sample of recent projects. Ask at the consultation and we will point you at finished work near you.
Also Serving
We cover most of
Contra Costa County
We run out of Concord, which puts nearly every town on this map inside a half-hour drive. That is the difference between a contractor who can walk your property this week and one who fits you in next month.
Not sure whether you are in range? Call and ask — and if we are not the right fit, we will usually know someone who is.
- Alamo — this page
- Concord — where we work out of
- Also served