Landscaping in Toronto

Landscaping in Toronto’s old city is a logistics craft as much as a trade: Victorian semis with one shared walkway of access, protected trees over half the backyards, parking pad rules that change block by block. We build interlock, patios, lawns, and gardens inside those constraints every week, and quote them properly the first time, because we know what the constraints are.

What we do across Toronto

Interlocking driveways and parking pads where permits allow, backyard patios sized for 20-foot-wide lots, front steps that survive salt, sod and turf for shaded urban yards, and season-round maintenance from spring cleanup through snow. The full list is on our services page; the heavy hitters in the old city are patio installation and front steps.

The old-city realities we plan around

Access first: most of Riverdale, Leslieville, and the Beaches works through a narrow side gate or a laneway, which decides equipment, crew size, and where two pallets of pavers can legally sit. Trees second: the private tree by-law protects anything 30 cm and up, roots included, and a third of old-Toronto backyards have one in the work zone. We design around root zones rather than gambling with city fines.

The houses are old, the grading is older. Hundred-year-old lots have settled toward the house in ways that send water at stone foundations, so almost every hardscape job here is quietly also a drainage job, and we treat it that way.

Neighbourhoods we serve

The Beaches, Leslieville, Riverdale, Danforth Village, Davisville, and Midtown, plus the rest of the old city. East of the Don is home turf.

Toronto questions

Do you work on small downtown lots?

That is most of what we do in the old city. Our crews run compact equipment sized for laneways and 30-inch side gates, and we plan material staging for streets where a dump truck cannot idle. Small-lot logistics are priced into the quote, not discovered during it.

Do I need a permit for a parking pad in Toronto?

Front yard parking pads in the old City of Toronto need a permit and are subject to permeable-surface rules, and some areas are no longer issuing new ones. We tell you what is possible on your street before any money changes hands.

Are my trees protected?

Toronto's private tree by-law protects trees 30 cm in diameter and up, including roots in the work zone. We design and excavate around protected root zones, it changes how a patio or driveway gets built, and ignoring it gets expensive fast.