Why Desert Crest?
Landscape Design
1Arizona landscaping is unique to desert climates. Xeriscape can be beautiful – framing your home and enriching your Phoenix lifestyle.
Xeriscaping
2Low maintenance Arizona yards feature desert landscaping, making the most of plants with high color, beautiful blooms and great textures.
Outdoor Living
3Courtyard and patio designs enhance your lifestyle. The best Phoenix landscaping creates wonderful outdoor living spaces used all year.
Earth Elements
4Beyond plants and surfaces, Arizona landscaping provides beauty and utility with water features, fire features, shade features and more.
Expect attention to detail and exceptional customer service
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Arizona landscape design and installation company.
Residential landscaping design in Arizona is an art that those with great knowledge of desert plants use to turn any Phoenix area home site into a beautiful place. A well planned xeriscape design in Arizona has far more character than many people realize, as well as being the ultimate in low maintenance landscaping.
Saving money on landscaping in Glendale, AZ or Paradise Valley does not necessarily mean having less desert plants, or the least expensive ones to install. The cost of your landscaping in Arizona is not just the price of having the landscape design planted; you forget that once you have adopted these trees, shrubs, cacti and grasses or perennial flowers… you must keep them looking great. The right plant in the wrong place is an expensive thing to own, even if it was the cheapest one you could find. With improperly chosen or poor planting practices, your inexpensive landscaping can cost you a bundle and curb appeal too.
Desert landscaping perfect for your Arizona home.
Arizona xeriscape design is the best landscaping for having a low maintenance yard and reducing your landscape water usage. In Anthem, landscape designers should always add drip irrigation to the landscape installation. Yes, desert plants and xeriscaping are the most drought tolerant form of home landscaping. This does not mean that these plants used in residential landscaping for ornamental value will be vigorous, healthy and beautiful without some assistance with moisture. Professional landscapers in Peoria, AZ will guide you to have the right planting preparation to allow the least amount of water to be used by the plant and maintain great looks. This reduces the amount of time you must spend on yard work, increases your property value and the beauty of your home.
Removing the lawn and planting a desert is a completely different thing than allowing the wild desert to encroach and take over the lawn. All desert plants installed in xeriscaping in Cave Creek or Carefree and New River will need water in moderate amounts to establish themselves in your yard and flourish. Arizona landscaping plants that are not given any water or fertilizer are the most expensive landscape purchases. You will find they are constantly in need of treatment for disease or replacing and not at all adding to the curb appeal of your real estate investment. Landscape design and xeriscape design in Arizona is meant to increase in beauty over time, not require replacing and constant medical treatments and hang onto life by a thread.
Desert Crest ranks TOP 10 Phoenix Landscapers.
Expect attention to detail and exceptional customer service with us. Your landscaping in Phoenix and the metropolitan area will be stunning with our Arizona landscape design and outdoor living room construction craftsmanship. We thank all of our customers in the Phoenix area for their part in Desert Crest Landscaping being voted to the top in Ranking Arizona Magazine.
We would like you to know we think you’re all awesome too!
The Group at Desert Crest Landscape
Contact us for a free consultation today – (623) 780-8900
Anthem · Carefree · Cave Creek · Glendale · Paradise Valley · Peoria · Phoenix · Scottsdale
Custom Landscaping
Our professional designers work with you individually.
The goal at Desert Crest Landscaping is to create the look you want to complement your home and enhance your Arizona lifestyle.
Working together, you and your landscape designer from Desert Crest will achieve solving site problems first and creating the curb appeal and outdoor living spaces of your dreams. From proper site analysis and wise materials and plant selection perfectly suited for your properties restrictions and your style requirements, a computer drawing design of your plot plan is created with the entire vision present.
Proper Phoenix landscape design covers many things.
There are far more important issues to address than the shape of patio designs, the location of your new waterfalls and where the flowers will be. Many things must be addressed to ensure you will enjoy low maintenance desert landscaping and long functional outdoor living spaces or their elements’ individual usefulness and quality.
Yes, a computer rendered Arizona landscape design enables you to see the big picture. You will know exactly how your yard will look in the end – before we begin any work. At Desert Crest, we strive to provide each landscaping client with the right solutions to make their dream a reality that will only grow more beautiful with time.
Working with a Desert Crest landscape designer puts your property’s future in the hands of a Ranking Arizona Top 10 Phoenix Landscaper. Together you can create the outdoor living spaces and curb appeal landscaping of your dreams.
Contact us for a free consultation today – (623) 780-8900
Anthem · Carefree · Cave Creek · Glendale · Paradise Valley · Peoria · Phoenix · Scottsdale
Landscape Design
Outdoor elements perfect for your Arizona home.
Most people look at a beautifully landscaped yard and see sweeps of manicured green lawn accented or framed with a wonderful mixture of colorful and texture rich plants. To the untrained eye, this ambience appears easy to attain. What homeowners don’t understand is that this display of beauty surrounding a home, and its outdoor living spaces, is really just frosting.
A landscape planting is the very last step in a properly planned home landscaping installation. It is also hard for the average person to understand that shrubs, trees and other ornamental plants are alive and not just decorative elements.
Great Phoenix landscape design is well planned.
There is a good deal of beneath the surface planning and preparation that must be done first. A professional landscape design is most definitely an art form requiring talent and skill. The designer must be able to envision the mature shape and size of each plant placed into the whole and its relation to everything around it. This is what creates a landscape that remains beautiful and low maintenance for many years to come. The average person forgets that the plant they purchased today will grow much larger as the years go by.
Different plants have different needs and must be grouped according to their preferences. This is far removed from interior decorating due to the scientific and agricultural knowledge that is a part of every successful landscape design. It is the landscape designer’s job to group plants with similar requirements in a display that is pleasing twelve months a year. Professionals with skill understand that each of the living elements of a landscape must happily cohabitate in that space for many years to come.
Professional landscape designers solve problems first.
A talented landscape designer has the task of solving site problems along with enriching your lifestyle. Success in putting this all together into one cohesive whole landscape is not a simple as you may assume. Your real estate value will increase with a professionally designed and installed landscape. Your entire yard should be a useable extension of your home. In order to create beauty on the surface, the landscape designer must first correct issues like problems in grade, soil conditions or direction of drainage. Our landscape design team at Desert Crest is trained and highly skilled in addressing all of the issues found in an Arizona landscape.
The first priority involved with landscape design is to identify problems and create the solution. This first step must prove to be technically sound before any beautification can be planned. The second step in your landscape design by a professional is laying out the hardscape elements to be used. This includes retaining walls, driveway, sidewalks and paving for your courtyard and patio, along with the skeleton of your irrigation system. Only at this point can the plants envisioned for your yard will be considered. To be properly placed, it is of utmost importance to know where and why each plant is placed on the paper. After all the plants are selected and arranged, the designer can finalize the irrigation plan.
Proper Arizona landscape design requires great plant knowledge.
There is so much that must be learned about landscape plants and their needs to create a landscape design. The plant kingdom, even in desert landscaping is vast and widely varied. Improper landscape design will result in many headaches and unnecessary expenses in the future. A landscape represents a significant portion of your real estate value. To reap the most benefit to your lifestyle and a return on the investment into your curb appeal, it is wise to do everything correctly from the very beginning.
At Desert Crest, the design team is highly skilled in all facets of Arizona landscape design. To discover the perfect solutions for you, your lifestyle and your real estate is easily gained by setting us a consultation with one of our landscape designers. You and your Desert Crest designer will plan a landscape that will provide enjoyment of both the benefits of beauty and function. You will enjoy excellent customer service and a one on one experience with your personal designer.
Desert Crest is far more than a landscape contracting company.
We build exterior lifestyles and outdoor living rooms that bring your dreams to reality.
Contact us for a free consultation today – (623) 780-8900
Anthem · Carefree · Cave Creek · Glendale · Paradise Valley · Peoria · Phoenix · Scottsdale
Outdoor Living Spaces
Desert Crest excels at Arizona outdoor living spaces.
The desert lifestyle is perfect for Arizona outdoor living rooms. In the summer courtyards in Scottsdale are a bonus, especially is shade is provided by ramadas and large trees. The best courtyard designs will feature cooling flagstone or paving stone floors and a water feature such as an outdoor fountain.
Adding a built in gas BBQ or outdoor kitchen and outdoor fireplace to patio designs extend your home living with the added bonus of a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere for entertaining. Ramadas and gazebos are the perfect way to seek relief from the hot sun in outdoor living rooms. Glendale, Arizona residents also enjoy the outdoor living patio including the pool deck too. Many a night can be enjoyed around your patio fire pit with friends, family and quality time with the children.
Beautiful Arizona patio designs with added value.
Waterfalls in Cave Creek also a popular request to add music and moisture to the Arizona patio designs. Some homeowners add waterfalls to pools or spas which is gaining a lot of interest for landscape design in Peoria, AZ. The ambience of outdoor fireplaces is doubled with the sound of water cascading nearby. Arizona waterfalls don’t have to be large to create a wonderful mood to your Paradise Valley patio design. Adding small streams to your backyard water features stretches the soothing element of water out across your outdoor living patio in Arizona.
Top quality patio designs and pool decks.
We offer you a selection of paved surfaces in a wide variety of Phoenix pavers, Arizona flagstone and natural stone tile. Our skills in stone masonry cover your ground as well as all outdoor three dimensional structures. From multi-leveled outdoor living spaces to retaining walls and fireplaces. One call to Desert Crest covers all of your Arizona landscaping and outdoor remodeling needs.
Contact us for a free consultation today – (623) 780-8900
Anthem · Carefree · Cave Creek · Glendale · Paradise Valley · Peoria · Phoenix · Scottsdale
Outdoor BBQ’s
Beautiful custom built in BBQ’s by Desert Crest.
Forget rolling that average gas grill around the patio. Get the outdoor BBQ you’ve always wanted, one that is built to last a lifetime.
Desert Crest Landscaping is highly skilled at stone and concrete masonry, as well as top quality tile work. These are the major components of today’s outdoor living spaces built in BBQ islands, once you add the appliances and utilities. From a simple outdoor BBQ with a preparation surface and patio bar for seating to full blown outdoor kitchen design – you can’t go wrong with our complete services. Our Arizona licensing means you won’t have to call another contractor to complete your new BBQ or outdoor kitchen installation.
Desert Crest is a full service Arizona landscaping company.
From concept to finish, we can handle all the necessary wiring, gas lines and hardscape construction that goes into today’s outdoor cooking areas. Lighting, refrigeration, kitchen sinks, storage cabinets and much more is in demand for Arizona backyard living areas. You don’t want to deal with several contractors, that only slows down and complicates this most desirable home improvement. One call to Desert Crest landscaping handles everything from start to finish for Arizona homeowners around Scottsdale and Phoenix.
We custom design your new outdoor BBQ to fit your space and your needs. Complimenting your home, your patio and providing you with a space to grill up a feast for family and friends.
Don’t forget the shade!
Arizona homeowners always need relief from that desert sun in summer. For your outdoor living and entertainment spaces like the center of attention a built in BBQ presents, we suggest either a ramada or pergola to beat the heat.
Crafted from wood, stone or adobe stucco and outfitted with lights and an outdoor fan for increased cooling makes your outdoor cooking and dining environment much more pleasant here in the Southwest’s arid climate. Desert Crest can make your barbeque and entertainment area comfortable and very functional, with beauty that will last for decades on end. Shade and great food… the ingredients of great times spent beneath the desert sky.
Contact us for a free consultation today – (623) 780-8900
Anthem · Carefree · Cave Creek · Glendale · Paradise Valley · Peoria · Phoenix · Scottsdale
Fireplaces & Fire Pits
Add the element of fire to Arizona landscaping.
You choose the traditional rounded Southwest beehive’s style or a shape that is more modern and rectilinear. All outdoor fireplaces built by Desert Crest follow precise construction guidelines and include a standard fire code firebox. We offer all the finishes popular with today’s Arizona homeowner: stucco, stone facing or tile .
Every outdoor fireplace we design for Scottsdale or Phoenix landscaping is unique. We work with each client to create an outdoor living space element that beautifully compliments their home, their patio and individual taste. You can count on top quality craftsmanship and materials to into every inch of the project for a finished structure that will bring you beauty and function for many decades.
Visit our Outdoor Fireplaces & Fire Pits Portfolio.
Wood or gas fire pits to fit your outdoor space.
While the most common shape for backyard fire pits is round, you can also choose to have yours be any shape at all. From a square or rectangle, to oblongs or L-shapes. That’s the great thing about custom designed and built additions to Arizona landscapes, each element can perfectly fit the space and your lifestyle.
You can count on fine quality in materials and construction with fire pits from Desert Crest. Each one is unique to the customer’s requirements and taste. Our skills allow you to choose to have your fire pit crafted from stone, paver blocks or adobe finished concrete. Whether you wish your fire feature to be wood burning or gas, one call to Desert Crest gets the whole project done. No other contractor will have to be involved, we are licensed and insured to handle everything.
Contact us for a free consultation today – (623) 780-8900
Anthem · Carefree · Cave Creek · Glendale · Paradise Valley · Peoria · Phoenix · Scottsdale
























