Landscape design & planting
A garden that fits how you live, with planting, privacy screening, trees, turf, irrigation and drought-tolerant schemes built for this climate.
From $18,000 · typical $24k–$60k
Your Dream Outdoor Space.Planned Once, Built Right.
Client stories
Stories from homeowners, projects, and finished outdoor spaces.
Don’t just believe us, hear from our customers!
4.9 Google · 4.7 Yelp
610+ five-star reviews on Google & Yelp
Transforming a Steep Lot into an Outdoor Living Space
Verano is very professional without losing that personal touch. Our yard was not large and they treated us like a million dollar client from the first meeting.
See full review ↗Wikl AustriaGoogle review · Feb 2026
Our backyard transformation into a tiki oasis was nothing short of extraordinary. Julian’s design and Trent’s coordination made this project painless.
See full review ↗Tomas CostanzaGoogle review · Jan 2026
Inside the Backyard of an MLB Executive
They worked with our vision and our budget. Our house is small and we wanted a drought resistant landscape. People stop walking past to tell us.
See full review ↗Judi DoomGoogle review · Jul 2026
We waited thirty years for this project. I could never find anyone who understood my vision for a changed driveway approach and an open courtyard.
See full review ↗Bridget PrinceGoogle review · Feb 2026
Would You Live Two Feet from a Golf Course?
Twelve years since Verano laid the pavers on our circular driveway. It looks as good now as it did then, and the materials have not moved.
See full review ↗Marcus TrentYelp review · Sep 2026
Our process
A clear plan from first measurement to final walkthrough.
Every successful project begins with accurate information. Our five-step process helps you make the important decisions before construction begins, when changes are easy and cheap.
Step 1 of 5
01Step 01 of 5
Site Analysis
A specialist measures your property and documents everything that affects the design — grading, drainage, utilities, access and sun. You start from real information rather than an assumption that costs money later.
You receive a measured base plan
02Step 02 of 5
Designer Meeting
Using the site analysis as the foundation, your designer sketches your ideas into a workable layout and talks through honestly how it sits against your budget.
You receive a hand-drawn concept
03Step 03 of 5
Conceptual Meeting
You review the design, select stone, tile, planting and finishes, and request changes until it is right. Nothing is assumed on your behalf.
You receive a refined plan and a fixed price
04Step 04 of 5
3D Walkthrough
You walk through lifelike 3D renderings and confirm every detail. Moving a wall here is free; moving it in concrete is not.
You receive the space, before it exists
05Step 05 of 5
Construction
Your designer and job coordinator walk the approved plan on site with the crew before anyone breaks ground, then build exactly that.
You receive what you approved, on the date agreed
Why Verano
We understand why homeowners are nervous.
It is a large amount of money handed to people you have just met, for something you cannot see yet. Here is how we take each part of that risk off you.
Permitting help built in
We prepare and file the drawings, deal with the city, and carry the delay risk. You never stand in a planning queue.
Wholesale material pricing
We buy stone, tile and plants at trade and pass the price straight through. It is itemised, so you can see it.
One coordinated process
Design, build, pool, electrical and planting are all ours. Nobody is waiting on somebody else’s subcontractor.
Enjoy it now, pay over time
Approved financing from $500 a month on projects over $25,000. We take no commission and it does not change your price.
Service area
See whether we build in your neighborhood.
Enter your address to confirm availability and find your nearest Verano design office.
Outside our standard area?
Call us anyway. We may still be able to help, review your plans, or point you at somebody we would use ourselves.
Call (818) 555-0142Where we build
- Pasadena
- Glendale
- Burbank
- La Cañada
- Sherman Oaks
- Studio City
- Encino
- Calabasas
- Hollywood Hills
- Beverly Hills
- Brentwood
- Pacific Palisades
- Santa Monica
- Manhattan Beach
- Woodland Hills
- Thousand Oaks
What we build
Outdoor living, edited around the way you want to live.
Six disciplines, all in house. Each one carries a real starting figure, because a range you can plan against is more use than "contact us for pricing".
Pools & spas
A backyard built for swimming and everyday use: custom pools, spas, sun shelves, waterline tile, coping and the hardscape around them.
From $78,000 · typical $95k–$210k
Patios & hardscape
More usable space, with pavers, natural stone, retaining walls, steps and surfaces built on a base made to last two decades.
From $14,000 · typical $22k–$70k
Pergolas & shade
Pergolas, patio covers and louvred structures that make a terrace usable through a Southern California summer rather than just photogenic.
From $12,500 · typical $16k–$45k
Outdoor kitchens & dining
Somewhere to cook and gather: grill islands, counters, bars, dining zones, fridges and the shade that makes them usable in August.
From $22,000 · typical $30k–$85k
Driveways, entries & lighting
Curb appeal that matches the back: paver driveways, entry masonry, and path, step and architectural lighting on a single circuit plan.
From $16,000 · typical $20k–$55k
Investment
Three real projects, with the real numbers.
Nobody in this trade publishes this, which is exactly why we do. These are projects we finished this year, priced as you would have been quoted them.
The terrace
$46,000
Typical range $28,000 – $70,000
- 780 sq ft stone terrace
- Seat wall and gas fire table
- Planting scheme and irrigation
- Low-voltage lighting
- Five weeks on site
Most common
The full backyard
$164,000
Typical range $120,000 – $260,000
- Custom pool, spa and sun shelf
- 1,400 sq ft of hardscape
- Outdoor kitchen and pergola
- Full planting and irrigation
- Lighting and sound
- Fourteen to eighteen weeks
The whole property
$390,000
Typical range $300,000 – $750,000
- Front and rear, designed together
- Pool, spa and water feature
- Paver driveway and entry masonry
- Mature tree specimens
- Phased over two seasons
From $500 / month
Approved financing on projects over $25,000 through a third-party lender. We take no commission on it and it does not change your price by a dollar. Roughly half of our clients use it rather than waiting a season.
Check eligibility10Year structural warranty
On time and on budget, or we pay for it.
Ten years on hardscape and structural work, five on planting, transferable if you sell the house. And if we miss the completion date in your contract without a weather or permit delay, we credit you $250 for every day. In twenty-five years we have paid that on nine projects — we would rather you knew the number than trusted the promise.
Portfolio
See what is possible in your own backyard.
Every one a Greater Los Angeles address, photographed on handover day, with what the client actually paid.
Oasis in the Sky
A ridge lot with no flat ground became a cantilevered pool terrace over the valley.
$268,000
Sloped Dirt to Lagoon
An unusable graded slope turned into a lagoon pool, sun shelf and tropical planting.
$196,000
Mid-Century Refresh
Clean geometry, warm stone and drought-tolerant planting that honours the architecture.
$88,000
Hollywood Hills Entertaining
A multi-zone space: spa, sun deck, outdoor kitchen and lighting designed for evenings.
$142,000Case study · La Cañada
A private resort, built from the ground up.
01
Mapping the site
Eleven feet of fall across the lot, and a drainage problem nobody had surveyed.
02
Refining the vision
Three concepts. The one they chose was the cheapest of the three.
03
Materials and layout
Locked before ground broke, so nothing changed price halfway through.
04
Seeing it first
Two 3D revisions moved the kitchen six feet. Free on screen, costly in concrete.
05
Built to plan
Sixteen weeks, one crew, finished four days early.
What it cost
$212,000, fixed at step three and unchanged at handover. The two cheaper bids had no engineering for the retaining structure, which is the reason the lot had a drainage problem in the first place.
Why we show this one
Because the expensive half is underground and invisible in the photograph. Drainage, footings and structural fill came to $61,000 of that number. Any bid that looks cheap is cheap somewhere, and that is usually where.
About Verano
Twenty-five years on the same forty miles.
Verano was started in 2001 by Elena Vasquez and Daniel Roth, a landscape architect and a builder who were tired of watching good designs get value-engineered into something else by whoever won the build.
So we do both. Design, hardscape, pool, electrical and planting are all on our own payroll — eighty-one people — which is why the drawing you approve is the thing that gets built.
- CA licence #000000, bonded, insured to $5M
- Eighty-one staff, zero subcontractors
- Design office in Pasadena, yard in Sun Valley
- Average client project: $164,000
610+ reviews, 4.9 average
Thousands of outdoor spaces across Greater Los Angeles.
The 3D walkthrough moved our kitchen six feet and saved us making that mistake in concrete. That one session paid for the design fee twice over.
CW
Caroline W.La Cañada · Jul 2026
Google
Quoted $164,000 in February. Paid $164,000 in July. I have never been able to write that sentence about a contractor before.
JR
Jonathan R.Encino · Aug 2026
Yelp
They handled the permit entirely. Eleven weeks of city back-and-forth that I never saw and was never billed for.
MT
Meredith T.Calabasas · May 2026
Google
Before we begin
Questions homeowners ask.
How much does a landscape design cost?
Between $3,500 and $12,000 depending on lot size and complexity, and it is credited in full against the build if you go ahead with us. You keep the drawings either way and you are free to take them to anyone.
Do I have to get my own permits?
No. We prepare the drawings, file them and deal with the city, and the permit cost is itemised in your quote rather than added later. On a typical pool project that is eight to twelve weeks we handle and you never see.
Do you employ your own crews?
Yes, all eighty-one of them. No subcontractors on any part of a project, which is the single biggest reason our schedules hold.
Do you have a project minimum?
$14,000. Below that you are better served by a smaller outfit and we will give you two names we would use ourselves.
How long is the whole process?
Four to seven weeks of design, then eight to eighteen weeks of construction depending on scope. Both dates go in the contract, and we credit $250 a day if we miss the finish without a weather or permit delay.
What warranty do I get?
Ten years on hardscape and structural work, five years on planting, transferable if you sell. Anything that fails in that window we put right, once, free.
Will you maintain it afterwards?
Yes, and about two thirds of clients stay on a maintenance plan. The same crew that built it, monthly or seasonal, cancel any time.
Get started
Your outdoor space starts with a conversation.
Tell us about the property and we will come back within one working day with a site analysis date. No deposit, no obligation, and the measured plan is yours whether you build with us or not.
- Phone(818) 555-0142
- Emailstudio@veranooutdoor.example
- Design officePasadena, CA · Yard in Sun Valley
- LicenceCA #000000 · Bonded · Insured to $5M