An outdoor environment designed for your lifestyle — and built to last it
We design and build complete outdoor transformations across Colorado's Front Range. The team that designs your landscape is the team that prices it, builds it, and stands behind it — so you always know what's happening, what's next, and why. Your project, understood from first sketch to final walkthrough.
We're dedicated to delivering on what we promise. It starts with a design we revise until it's right — because a refined design is what produces accurate estimates and successful projects.
You've heard the horror stories. So have we.
Talk to anyone who's invested serious money in their landscape and you'll hear the same stories. We built this company to be the answer to every one of them.
"Everything happened so fast. Now problems are showing up — and we're not sure what was actually built."
The team rushes through, you feel pressured to keep up, and the crew is gone before you've caught your breath. It isn't until problems arise — a settling patio, a soggy corner, plants that don't make it — that you start doubting who you just worked with and what really happened under the surface. By then it's regret, not a punch list. We work at the pace of understanding: you'll know what's coming next, why each element is built the way it is, and how it's meant to last — before, during, and after the build. No pressure, no mystery construction, no finding out later.
"They took our deposit, then went silent for months."
We take a limited number of full-property projects each season — so when your project starts, it has our full attention until it's finished. You'll always know what's happening this week and what happens next.
"I didn't know what I wanted — until it was already happening."
Plants show up and go in the ground, and you were never part of choosing them — no say in the palette, no understanding of why these combinations, why this placement, or what the beds will look like in three years. Our process starts big picture and drills down to the details: first how you'll actually live in the space, then every element beneath it — including walking you through the plant choices, the combinations, and the placement — so you discover what you want before it's built, not after.
"The final bill was nothing like the estimate."
Vague pricing is how change orders are born. We price every phase in detail before work begins, and payments are tied to milestones you can see — a phase finished and walked together, or materials ordered for the next one. You approve the numbers before anything happens.
"They ignored what we asked for. We got 'landscaped.'"
Most homeowners are kept in the dark about the work happening on their own property. We do the opposite: we explain the work, the options, and the trade-offs in plain language — because informed homeowners make better decisions. You make the calls, and nothing gets built that you haven't seen and approved.
If it's not right, it gets made right
Here's something most companies won't tell you: one of our favorite five-star reviews came from a project where something didn't meet our standard. A hardscape element came in below spec — so we tore it out and rebuilt it correctly. No arguing, no excuses, no invoice for the do-over. The client's review afterward praised our "communication and problem-solving — truly 10/10."
That's the difference between a company that manages complaints and a studio that guards a standard. Colorado's freeze-thaw cycles, clay soils, and drought rules punish shortcuts. We'd rather rebuild a step than let you live with one that's wrong.
"Janice is professional, knowledgeable, and wonderful to work with — an absolute gem. Her communication and problem-solving skills were truly 10/10. Our yard has been completely transformed."
— Theresa H. · Verified 5.0★ review
What working with us actually looks like
From the first walkthrough to the first season after planting — here's the experience we've designed for you.
Real fixes, not surface ideas
We run our own grading equipment — so we can reshape the land itself: correcting slopes, fixing drainage at the source, and making your yard genuinely accessible and easy to move through. Not decoration layered over problems that are still there underneath.
A design worth revising
Great projects are refined on paper first. We revise your design until it's right — that's what produces accurate estimates and a build with no surprises. From detailed plans to VR modeling on estate projects, you'll walk your new yard before a shovel touches dirt.
Numbers you approve first
Detailed phase-by-phase pricing, milestone-tied payments, and a schedule you can hold us to. The estimate you sign is the project you get.
Colorado's beauty, brought home
We don't overwork a design. We bring the natural beauty of Colorado to your home — native textures, easy movement through the space, a landscape that feels like it belongs — designed to thrive here without constant effort from you.
One conversation, start to finish
One accountable team and a direct line — we communicate with you every single day during your build. You always know what's happening and what's next; never left wondering, never waiting for a call back.
Finished well — with care beyond
Your project ends with a full walkthrough, an establishment plan for the first season, and warranties we honor: two years on hardscape workmanship, one year on irrigation, drainage, and plants. Want ongoing support? We offer maintenance and follow-up care packages to keep your landscape at its best.
Full-property transformations, documented
Real projects, start to finish — the process, the problem-solving, and the finished spaces.
Built for homeowners investing in the whole picture
Our best work happens on complete outdoor transformations — full front or back yards, estate properties, and phased master plans that unfold over seasons. We build on properties from 3,000 to 86,000+ square feet: patios and outdoor living, structural walls, water-wise plantings, drainage and irrigation — designed as one cohesive space, not a collection of disconnected upgrades.
Our clients tend to be educated homeowners — people who ask good questions, want to understand the work happening on their property, and can recognize the difference between a contractor who cares and one who doesn't. If that's you, we built this studio for you.
In the end, it's simple: you get an outdoor environment that's well built, matches the lifestyle you lead, and lets you simply enjoy it — a landscape that's a pleasure, not a project that never ends.
If you're weighing a serious investment in your property and you want a landscape designed for your lifestyle — not just your pocketbook — priced transparently, and built by the team that designed it, that's exactly the project we built this studio for.
Commercial-Grade Standards, Residential Scale
Colorado Native Landscapes & Design is an owner-led design-build studio in Arvada, built on an uncommon foundation: 25 years of landscape work spanning commercial grounds management and residential design, and a Colorado State University degree in Landscape Design and Construction — formal training in both the drawing and the building. Most companies learn one side of the trade. We practice both, and it shows in how every project is planned, documented, and built.
Colorado is not one climate. The foothills above Golden freeze differently than the clay flats of Centennial; a Boulder hillside sheds water that a Parker corner lot would hold onto all spring. We have built across all of it — wind-raked slopes, hail corridors, drought-restricted water districts — and every design starts with what this exact property’s soil, sun, grade, and water will actually do, season after season.
Our practices are industry-tested on work that has to pass inspection, not just look good on install day: engineered bases, compaction, drainage, and footings done to spec and documented. As a woman-owned company holding WBE, DBE, MBE, SBE, and HUB certifications, we are vetted to the standards public projects demand — and every residential build gets the same documentation and accountability. That is why the work lasts, and why the note we hear most from homeowners, a season or a year on, is simply that they are glad they made the change.
Janice Vogt
Colorado Native Landscapes & Design is led by owner Janice Vogt, who holds a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Design and Construction from Colorado State University and brings 25 years of landscape experience spanning commercial landscape management and residential design-build. Before building Colorado Native Landscapes & Design — the company she has led since 2018 — she managed commercial landscapes and community irrigation systems at HOA scale, the background that shapes how this studio plans, documents, and builds today.
Her work centers on the projects that punish shortcuts: converting thirsty turf into drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly landscapes; designing and rebuilding irrigation systems large and small; and retaining walls on complicated lots, including walls that require engineering or surveying. In established neighborhoods like Greenwood Village, where original construction is reaching the end of its life, every project begins the same way: a plan, a breakdown of that plan, documented estimates, and a best-practices build that keeps the homeowner in mind at every step.
Our Mission
To design and build outdoor spaces that match the homes they surround — planned carefully, documented honestly, and built once, by one team, to last decades in Colorado’s climate.
Our Vision
A Front Range where landscapes are designed for this place — water-wise, built for freeze and drought, and made for the people who live in them — one property, one neighborhood at a time.
Our Values
The person who designs your project walks your site, checks the base course, and answers your calls.
Scope, materials, and investment in writing before we build. No surprises, no expiring offers.
Clay soils, freeze-thaw, drought rules — we design for the place we live, with plants and materials that earn their keep.
The parts you never see — base, drainage, footings — decide how long the work lasts. We build them as if they were visible.
For your home, your time, and your decisions — and for the crew whose hands do the building.
Ready to be treated like your project matters?
Tell us about your space and your vision. We'll follow up within one business day — and you'll be talking to the team that would actually build it.