FormLA Landscaping, Inc. creates Los Angeles’ most distinctive, inviting and sustainable community spaces and residential landscapes.
FormLA designs start with understanding our clients’ needs, expectations, and how they and their communities, residents or families hope to use and view their outdoor space. Services include:
- Consulting regarding needs and vision
- Creating a complete custom landscape plan, incorporating living, hardscape and structural elements to fulfill client needsand space requirements
- Evaluating site requirements, such as terrain, microclimates, architecture and community codes
- Conducting audit of outdoor water use
- Incorporating sustainable features, such as native meadows, no mow lawns, green roofs, and water-wise irrigation
- Designing water-wise irrigation, drainage and run-off mitigation
FormLA’s building team works with our designers to construct and install the custom outdoor spaces our clients envision, using reclaimed, renewable, and responsibly sourced materials and sustainable building practices. Capabilities include:
- Planting landscapes to thrive now and in the long-term
- Creating biological ponds, spas, pools, fountains and other water features
- Placing specialized lighting, including LED lights, for effect and utility
- Constructing custom outdoor living areas, outdoor “rooms” and furniture
- Constructing custom patios and drives, shade structures, screens and fences, and outdoor fire features
- Creating permeable paving for patios, trails, walkways and drives, and build drainage and water collection systems
- Stabilizing hillsides, controlling erosion, and building retaining walls
- Planting the decorative walls and green roofs to reduce energy needs
- Installing and repairing smart irrigation systems featuring sophisticated, weather-based controllers
FormLA’s highly trained maintenance team eliminates landscaping worries, preserving the vitality and utility of our clients’ outdoor space as the landscape grows and transforms. Services include:
- Planting landscapes to thrive now and in the long-term
- Scheduling seasonal activities including specialized pruning, plantrecommendations and trouble-shooting
- Hand pulling or hula hoeing of weeds in lawns and planters
- Rejuvenating lawns as needed
- Conducting vermiculture and composting
- Observing needs of existing trees for proper schedule of care by arborist
- Edging and mowing of traditional lawns
- Selective pruning of dead heads, wilted, damaged, or chlorotic foliage and flowers on perennials, annuals, roses and shrubs
- Replenishing mulch and keeping it away from the base of plants
- Using non-chemical, organic, integrative pest control
- Promoting the vitality of plants and preserving the functionality of other landscape features
- Inspecting, repairing, and maintaining optimal settings for irrigation and lighting systems
- Hand-pruning of formal hedges to bolster privacy or maintain appearance
- Fertilizing (organic) and mulching
- Removing and replacing of dead plants
- Spot-watering dry or wilted plants and lawns
- Watering and care for container plants
- Pruning of plants to promote healthy structure and maintain appropriate size
- Managing annual fire clearance upon notice from the fire department
- Sweeping rather than blowing or hosing of hardscapes