Landscape & Hardscape in Alton, New Hampshire.

Sometimes the project is not a wall or a patio — it is the whole site. On steep wooded slopes falling to Alton Bay, we take a property from rough grade to finished landscape: drainage and earthwork first, because a landscape that fights water never looks settled, then stonework, plantings, and the details that make a yard feel resolved.

Working over granite ledge and sandy till on grades that demand real retention, we start under the surface so the finished Alton property sheds water, stays dry where it should, and never undermines the stonework above it.

Most Alton homeowners are more worried about the disruption than the stone, and they are right to be. We stage material where it will not kill the lawn, protect the drive and the root zones, and sweep the site at the end of every working day.

We would rather explain the number than defend it. In Alton, the swing factors are access, excavation depth over granite ledge and sandy till on grades that demand real retention, drainage, and protection of what is already growing on the property — the stone itself is rarely the deciding line.

You get an itemized scope after we walk the property — what is included, what is not, and where the money actually goes. No allowances that quietly become change orders halfway through.

Alton’s lots drop hard to the bay, so retaining walls and stepped terraces are most of the work — engineered to hold a slope inside the shoreland buffer.

On full-site projects we are frequently the execution crew for landscape architects and designers — much of our Lakes Region work in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design. We read plans fluently, flag conflicts before they become change orders, and build exactly what was drawn.

Alton sits in Belknap County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Lakes Region — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.