Land Designs by Colton

Owners & Landscape Design-Build Team | Denver Metro, CO

Landscape Design and Build in Centennial, CO

Centennial has some of the best residential lots in the Denver Metro, and most of their backyards are still an afterthought.

At Land Designs By Colton, we bring your visions to life with our expertise. We offer professional landscape design services that balance aesthetics with functionality. We understand the unique climate and terrain of Centennial, CO, allowing us to create landscapes that thrive, while reflecting your personal style.

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We’re Jonathan and Flavia, owners of Land Designs By Colton. In us, you’ll find a partner who listens to your vision and creates a space tailored to your and your family’s needs. We’ve been in the landscaping industry for over 10 years, and we’ve been designing outdoor spaces for more than 25 years. Rest assured, you’ll work with a pro that knows this industry inside-out!

Landscape Design and Build in Centennial and Denver Metro

Land Designs by Colton is a Wheat Ridge-based landscape design-and-build firm serving Centennial and communities throughout the Denver Metro. 

Jonathan Colton holds a degree in Landscape Architecture from Mississippi State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, one of the only accredited programs in the country that integrates design, construction, and site management within a single curriculum. That’s exactly the philosophy behind how we work. 

We work here because this is the kind of market where good outdoor design gets noticed and holds its value. 

A well-executed landscape in Centennial is a real asset. A poorly installed one, designed by someone who handed the plans to a separate contractor and walked away, tends to show the seams within a couple of years.

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Why Design Plus Build

The split-vendor model looks fine on paper. You hire a designer, get a beautiful plan, then hand it to a contractor to build. In practice, the handoff is where things go sideways. 

Design-build landscaping in Centennial, CO works differently because accountability runs in one direction. When we design your project, we’re also the ones building it. 

If something needs to change in the field, it gets changed with the full context of the design intent still in the room. You never have to explain your vision twice to two different teams. 

If you want to see how we stack up against other reputable options in this area, take a look at this overview of landscape design companies in Centennial, CO.

Get Inspired by Real Landscape Projects in Centennial, CO

These are real Centennial yards that started with a site visit and a blank slate. Browse our completed projects and see the level of detail that goes into every landscape design and build.

Over 250 landscape enhancements completed

30+ projects completed annually

25 years of design experience

Our Landscape Design-Build Process

Every great outdoor space starts the same way: a real conversation about what you want, followed by a clear plan that makes it possible.
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1

Collaborate

We listen to your vision and build a design that matches it before anything starts.
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2

Build

Our professional crew handles everything on site, on schedule, and with real care.
New Landscape After Designing and Installation

3

Enjoy

You step outside into the yard you imagined, fully built and ready for your family to use.

What Land Designs by Colton Designs and Builds for Centennial Homes

Centennial properties are well-suited for full outdoor transformations. Here’s a range of what we design and build:

Our landscape design-and-build approach treats the entire outdoor space as a single project, designed and installed to work as a cohesive whole. Our landscape architect page goes deeper on the design side of the practice.

Centennial and Nearby Denver Metro Areas

Our base is in Wheat Ridge, and our active service area covers Centennial and communities throughout the south and central Denver Metro, including Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Englewood, Littleton, Parker, Cherry Hills Village, Castle Pines, and the Denver Tech Center corridor.

FAQ

Landscape design gives you a plan and drawings, but you handle finding and managing the contractor who builds it. Landscape design and build means one firm owns the full scope, concept through installation. The team that drew the plan is the team that builds it.

Most residential projects in Colorado don’t require a licensed landscape architect by law. That said, working with someone who has formal training in design and site systems makes a real difference in how a project holds up. Jonathan Colton holds a degree from Mississippi State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, an LAAB-accredited program that covers design, construction, and ecological site planning as an integrated discipline.

Design typically runs two to four weeks depending on scope and how many revisions the design goes through. Construction of a mid-sized backyard project usually takes two to five weeks on-site. Larger full-property builds take longer. We provide a clear schedule before any work begins, and we stick to it.
We manage the permit process and coordinate with HOA review boards when they apply. Centennial falls under Arapahoe County jurisdiction, and requirements vary by project type, but we handle that side of things as part of the job.

Start Your Design-Build Project

Land Designs by Colton handles the full scope, design through landscape installation in Centennial, with one team and one clear point of contact. 

Call us at (720) 580-3677 or send us a message through our contact page.

If you want to understand how we approach projects before we talk, our full landscape design and build page lays it out clearly.

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Tammy Hertz

Rated 5 out of 5

Colton and his team did a great job cleaning up our landscaping, adding new plantings and repairing our pathways. They showed up for 3 days in a row and finished the project as expected.

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Rick Cseak

Rated 5 out of 5

I’ve been very happy working with Jonathan so far.

He recently installed an irrigation system and sod for me. The work was well done and he and his team were easy to communicate with and very helpful. Looking forward to continuing to work with him as I finish my yard.

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Centennial is one of Colorado’s youngest cities. Locals spend time at Centennial Center Park, an award-winning 11-acre community space near the Civic Center, and the historic 17 Mile House Farm Park, a preserved 1860s pioneer way station along the Smoky Hill Trail and one of only two of its kind still standing in Colorado. It’s a city where residents take their properties seriously, and the outdoor spaces tend to reflect that.

land designs by colton

Owners & Landscape Design-Build Team | Denver Metro, CO

Jonathan and Flavia Colton are the owners of Land Designs by Colton, a family-owned landscape design and build company serving the Denver metro area. Jonathan holds a Landscape Architecture degree from Mississippi State University and is the architect behind every custom design. Flavia handles client communication and project coordination, making them your only point of contact from first consultation to final walkthrough. The team specializes in hardscaping, paver patios, outdoor kitchens, xeriscaping, lighting, and full backyard transformations.