Landscape & Hardscape · New Canaan, CT
Landscape & Hardscape in New Canaan, Connecticut.
New Canaan is wooded rolling ridges laced with old stone walls, and that shapes every decision here. We build landscape & hardscape on stony glacial till over ledge — fieldstone turns up in every excavation, detailed for the the Harvard Five modernist houses alongside stone-and-clapboard estates they sit beside — hand-set, drainage-first, and made to look like they were always part of the property.
The honest numbers for New Canaan
Two properties on the same New Canaan street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth stony glacial till over ledge — fieldstone turns up in every excavation calls for, how much water has to be managed, and whether existing planting has to be protected while we work.
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.
Stone and softscape, together
Walls, patios, walkways, steps, and planting beds succeed when one crew builds them in the right sequence. We coordinate the hardscape and the softscape so the stone frames the plantings and the plantings soften the stone — tuned to the the Harvard Five modernist houses alongside stone-and-clapboard estates of God’s Acre, Silvermine, and Ponus Ridge and the wider Fairfield County.
It is the difference between a resolved landscape and two trades fighting over the same ground.
Where the stone comes from
Stone varies wildly pallet to pallet, so we select it ourselves. In New Canaan, where the local character runs to the Harvard Five modernist houses alongside stone-and-clapboard estates, getting the color and cleft right matters more than the grade printed on the invoice.
For New Canaan designers and architects
Designers keep sending us Fairfield County work for one reason: what gets built matches what was drawn. We hold the spec, raise conflicts early, and document as we go — including on the Jonathan Keep Landscape Design projects throughout this portfolio.
The whole New Canaan property, built as one
Sometimes the project is not a wall or a patio — it is the whole site. On wooded rolling ridges laced with old stone walls, 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 stony glacial till over ledge — fieldstone turns up in every excavation, we start under the surface so the finished New Canaan property sheds water, stays dry where it should, and never undermines the stonework above it.
Questions
Landscape & Hardscape in New Canaan, answered.
Both. We can take a property from grading through final planting, or come in for the masonry scope alongside other trades. We will scope it whichever way serves the project.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds landscape & hardscape throughout New Canaan — from God’s Acre, Silvermine, and Ponus Ridge — and across Fairfield County, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across Connecticut, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Constantly. A large share of our work is executing plans for landscape architects and designers. We build precisely to the drawing and keep the designer informed at every milestone.
Wooded rolling ridges laced with old stone walls on stony glacial till over ledge — fieldstone turns up in every excavation. That governs how we found and drain everything we build here — a proper base and drainage go in before a single stone is set, which is what keeps New Canaan stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
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