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Urban Cottage Landscapes

Featured in Guelph Today 4.90 (31 reviews)(519) 760-9436

Urban Cottage Landscapes designs and builds nature-inspired landscapes in Guelph. Its Pocket Woodlands® designs group trees on raised soil mounds, reflecting how trees and shrubs grow in their natural setting.

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Business Highlights
  • Martin Ford is a third-generation horticulturalist from Wales.
Service Area

Guelph-Wellington, Tri-City, the GTA and the Golden Horseshoe; occasionally other locations by request.

Featured on ProsGrade. Urban Cottage Landscapes is one of 9 landscapers ProsGrade lists in Guelph, Ontario.

Listing details

6 services listed, including Landscape design and implementation, Pocket Woodlands designs and Landscape construction. Open Monday to Saturday. Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews.

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How This Business Compares

How Urban Cottage Landscapes compares with the other 8 landscapers on ProsGrade in Guelph, using public Google ratings and review counts.

  • Ranks in the top half of the 9 Guelph landscapers on ProsGrade by Google rating and review volume.
  • Rated 4.9 on Google, at or above the 4.8 average of other Guelph landscapers on ProsGrade.
  • One of 7 Guelph landscapers on ProsGrade rated 4.7 or higher from at least 10 reviews.

Services Covered

6 services
  • Landscape design and implementationPocket Landscapes™ and Pocket Woodlands®; natural curves, rocks and water features
  • Pocket Woodlands designsFast-growing trees and slower-growing saplings on mounds of rich, organic soil
  • Landscape constructionPlanting beds, soil preparation, rockery, and optional pathways and patios
  • PlantingTrees, shrubs and perennials
  • Do-it-yourself consultingPlant, tree, stone, water-feature and lighting selection; help finding plants and building materials
  • Simple irrigation systemsAvailable by request

Reviews

What customers say

Customers praise the creative, personal designs, including layouts they said they could not have imagined themselves. One customer describes a peaceful, natural-looking waterfall and pond and notes that the work was done without machinery.

Customer Reviews

M M

We have worked with Martin and Judy over the past year while redesigning and landscaping our backyard, side walkway and driveway. We have been so impressed with the ideas and creativity that went into all of it. We ended up with design elements that we could not have envisioned without their expertise. We now have our cottage backyard oasis in the middle of the city! Thank you Martin and Judy!
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Zanna Nassr

Judy and Martin are lovely people who collectively created a beautiful and peaceful waterfall and pond that I had always envisioned. I cannot believe how natural looking it is - like it was already part of our backyard and had been there for decades! I am so happy with Martin's work. What a kind and hard-working man he is. Everything he did was done without machinery. All physical labour! I will always be grateful to Judy and Martin for the gift of my tranquility waterfall. I am so pleased with it. Zanna
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Kyle Woods

My wife and I used Martin and Judy to recreate our front and rear yards in 2018 and we were very impressed with how well they both turned out! Honestly, we really didn't know "what" we wanted but knew we wanted something unique. Martin was able to help us come up with a playful and creative design that worked really well for us that we never would have thought of on our own. His knowledge about landscaping, shrubs, trees and design is vast and really helpful when planning a design. We always received friendly service and prompt responses to questions we had or changes we wanted to see made. It was a significant investment in our property which will certainly pay off when we are ready to sell, but also has added so much "living value" to the place we call home. We'd had other landscapers come up with designs in the past but they all seemed cookie-cutter and rigid, something we'd seen way too many times before. Martin's approach to design is very unique and intuitive, visually pleasing, while at the same time remaining practical. He never tried to oversell us on anything and we actually came in well under budget on our spend which allowed us to add a beautiful and functional patio in the rear we hadn't previously planned. The pocket landscapes we were given add so much life to our yards and have given us something to nurture and watch unfold as they develop. Passersby are constantly letting us know how beautiful our front yard looks now. I thoroughly recommend Urban Cottage Landscapes - Five stars all around! Thanks, Kyle
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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Urban Cottage Landscapes phase a landscape build?

It completes non-living work first, followed by living elements in a second phase.

When does Urban Cottage Landscapes plant?

Planting is scheduled for March to June and again from September to November, when the transition is less traumatic for trees and shrubs.

What ongoing care does an Urban Cottage Landscapes garden need?

Maintenance is minimal: loose mulch helps reduce weeds, and spring and fall weeding removes them before they grow too large. Homeowners’ primary responsibility is watering.

How long do shrubs and groundcovers take to mature?

They mature in about two to three years. Succession planting provides immediate height, with some plants expected to reach 10–20 feet in five to ten years, depending on variety.

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