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What the crew actually built.

Every photograph here is a Loth & Son job, taken on the property.

Stone and structures

Drives, patios, walks, pads, edges and the deck.

A paver driveway with a granite cobble border curving past clipped boxwood and new planting toward a stone house with dormer windows.
Paver drive and cobble edge, with the boxwood and beds set along it.
A bluestone patio with a curved stone seat wall capped in bluestone, set with outdoor dining and lounge furniture beside a house.
Bluestone patio with a curved stone seat wall.
A curved bluestone front walk running through mulched beds and daffodils, past a white lamp post toward the street.
Curved bluestone front walk, with the beds cut to follow it.
A curved paver walk bordered in granite cobble, wrapping a mulched bed, with a lawn, a fire pit seating area and a shed beyond.
Curved paver walk with a cobble border around the bed it wraps.
A new gray paver pad around two air-conditioning condensers, meeting a concrete walk and a set of paver steps along the side of a house.
Paver pad around the condensers, tied into the walk and the steps.
Large stone stepping slabs set in pea gravel with a granite cobble edge, leading to the side door of a house clad in black siding.
Stepping slabs in gravel, edged in cobble, to a side door.
A curved flagstone stepping-stone path set in river stone, edged with granite cobble, running through a newly planted bed with path lighting.
Stepping-stone path in river stone with a granite cobble edge, and a bed planted the same week.
A white-railed composite deck built onto a Main Line stone house, with new footings and regraded lawn below.
Composite deck and rail on a stone house: footings, framing and the regrade underneath.

Planting and beds

Beds cut, edged, planted and mulched as one job.

A dry creek bed of river stone curving through black mulch to a granite cobble curb at the edge of a driveway, with perennials in bloom beside it.
A dry creek bed in river stone, running out to a cobble curb.
A freshly mulched bed of white hydrangeas planted along a horizontal wood slat fence, with a lawn in front.
Hydrangeas planted along a slat fence, mulched and edged.
A round island bed ringed in river stone in a front lawn, planted with cannas, daylilies and annuals around a blue birdbath.
An island bed ringed in river stone, planted for summer color.
A clipped hedge above a bed of hostas, edged in granite cobble along a concrete sidewalk.
Clipped hedge, hosta bed and a new cobble edge along the sidewalk.
A long, freshly mulched bed with new shrubs planted along a hedge, curving through a lawn behind a stone house.
A new bed cut along the hedge line and planted out.
A narrow mulched bed with a river stone border along a wood fence, separated from a gravel yard by a concrete curb.
A bed along the fence line, with river stone where the water runs.
A freshly mulched corner bed with hydrangea, fieldstone boulders and new plantings, curving around a tree at the edge of a lawn.
Corner bed rebuilt around the tree: boulders set, bed cut, plants in, mulched.
A long bed of fall annuals and arborvitae planted along a white picket fence in front of a stone house, seen from across the street.
Frontage planted along the fence, from across the street.

Maintenance through the year

The weekly route, the fall cleanup, the pruning most owners send out.

A Main Line stone house with a gabled roof and timbered entry porch, fronted by a lawn cut in clean stripes and a low clipped hedge along the drive.
Stone house, striped lawn, clipped hedge along the drive.
A stand-on mower parked on a rear lawn cut in clean diagonal stripes, with a wood fence and trees behind.
The weekly cut. Stripes are what a sharp blade and a set route leave behind.
A row of arborvitae in a mulched bed along a white picket fence, with a fresh lawn and a brick edge in front.
Arborvitae screen along the fence, bed mulched and the lawn edged to it.
A dense evergreen hedge sheared to a smooth rounded top above a fieldstone wall along a sidewalk.
An evergreen hedge sheared smooth above a stone wall.
A large rear lawn cut in clean stripes, bordered by a low evergreen hedge and a granite cobble edge along the driveway.
Weekly maintenance: cut lines, a clipped hedge and a cobble edge kept clean.
Four crew members with backpack blowers clearing fallen oak leaves from a lawn at the edge of a woodline in late autumn.
Fall cleanup. Four men and four blowers, because leaves do not wait.
A Loth & Son crew member in a branded work shirt, shearing a row of tall arborvitae from a lift, with a stone house and pool behind him.
Shearing a mature arborvitae screen from the lift, the part most owners send someone else to do.
A Loth & Son crew member in a branded work shirt trimming a tall hedge above a stone wall along a residential street.
Cutting back a tall hedge that had started to lean over the wall.

How we work

Everything arrives at once, and every estimate is written down before anything is dug.

Rathana Yen standing at his truck in a Loth & Son shirt, reading through a written work order.
Every estimate is written down before anything is dug.
A black dump truck and an enclosed equipment trailer parked along a tree-lined residential street.
Truck and trailer on site. Everything the job needs arrives at once.

Before and after

The same ground, a few weeks apart.

  • Before: an overgrown bed at the end of a driveway, with a mailbox lost in the planting and the stone edge buried.Before
    After: the same corner cleared and rebuilt as a stepping-stone path in river stone, with a granite cobble edge, new planting and path lights.After

    Driveway cornerAn overgrown bed rebuilt as a stepping-stone path in river stone, with a cobble edge and low lighting.

  • Before: two air-conditioning condensers beside a house on loose gravel and scattered pavers, next to a cracked concrete walk.Before
    After: the same condensers standing on a level paver pad with a soldier-course border, tied into the concrete walk and the stone steps.After

    Side yardLoose gravel and scattered pavers replaced with a level paver pad, tied into the walk and the steps.

  • Before: an overgrown island bed around a tree in a front lawn, with a narrow gravel path running past it.Before
    After: the same front lawn with the bed cut back to a clean curve, freshly mulched, and the gravel path re-edged.After

    Front bedA bed that had swallowed its own edge, cut back to a clean curve and re-mulched.

  • Before: old square stepping pavers sunk in weeds and gravel beside a paver walk, edged with loose brick along the lawn.Before
    After: the same stepping pavers reset level in white river stone with a clean curb edge along the lawn.After

    Stepping pathSunken stepping pavers lifted, reset level in river stone, and given a clean edge along the lawn.

These are the four jobs with photographs taken from the same spot before and after. Nothing here is staged and nothing is stock.

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