Landscape & Hardscape · Portsmouth, NH
Landscape & Hardscape in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Portsmouth is a tidal harbor city on the Piscataqua, dense and historic, and that shapes every decision here. We build landscape & hardscape on urban fill and till over ledge, detailed for the Georgian and Federal brick houses they sit beside — hand-set, drainage-first, and made to look like they were always part of the property.
What landscape & hardscape cost in Portsmouth
Two properties on the same Portsmouth street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth urban fill and till over ledge 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.
Building what was drawn
If you are coming to us with a plan already drawn, we build it as drawn. We read grading and layout sheets fluently, hold the detail, and keep the designer informed at each milestone — the way we work with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design across New Hampshire.
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 Georgian and Federal brick houses, granite curbs and steps throughout of the South End, Little Harbor, and Christian Shore and the wider NH Seacoast.
It is the difference between a resolved landscape and two trades fighting over the same ground.
The whole Portsmouth property, built as one
Sometimes the project is not a wall or a patio — it is the whole site. On a tidal harbor city on the Piscataqua, dense and historic, 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 urban fill and till over ledge, with tidal ground near the water, we start under the surface so the finished Portsmouth property sheds water, stays dry where it should, and never undermines the stonework above it.
How a Portsmouth project runs
Most Portsmouth 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.
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Questions
Landscape & Hardscape in Portsmouth, answered.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds landscape & hardscape throughout Portsmouth — from the South End, Little Harbor, and Christian Shore — and across NH Seacoast, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across New Hampshire, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation urban fill and till over ledge demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
A tidal harbor city on the Piscataqua, dense and historic on urban fill and till over ledge, with tidal ground near the water. 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 Portsmouth stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
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.
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