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Landscaping for Vancouver’s Urban Lots

Vancouver packs a lot of life onto relatively small parcels, and that shapes how every yard should be built. The city core leans toward compact lots squeezed between heritage character homes, Vancouver Specials, and modern infills, while west-side pockets like Point Grey, Shaughnessy, and Kerrisdale offer larger estate-scale grounds. Add high annual rainfall, a mild Zone 8b climate, and some of the strictest tree-protection and development-permit rules in the region, and it becomes clear that good design here is as much about planning and drainage as it is about plant choice.

On tighter east-side and central lots, the priority is squeezing genuine function out of limited square footage. Our crews build slim paver patios, layered privacy hedging, built-in seating, and laneway-home and garden-suite landscapes that resolve the awkward transitions between buildings. Permeable paving and considered grading keep heavy winter rain moving away from foundations rather than pooling against them.

Larger west-side properties open the door to full-yard transformations: stone walkways, retaining and terracing where grades shift, cedar and composite carpentry, water features, and landscape lighting that carries the garden into the long dark evenings. Across the city we lean into a refined west-coast look that pairs natural stone and timber with broadleaf evergreens, ferns, and structural conifers, so the space stays green and private through the rain and reads as a true extension of the home.