Skip to content Evergreen Landscape Pros provides full-service landscaping in Eldorado, NM, from water-wise design and irrigation to hardscaping, fencing, and year-round maintenance, built for the soils, wind, and wildlife of the Galisteo Basin.
Eldorado at Santa Fe is not Santa Fe proper, and landscaping here is not the same as in other areas of the local region. Larger lots, open exposure, piñon-juniper woodland, and community covenants change what works and what doesn’t. A design that suits a walled courtyard in town can look lost and cost a fortune to water on a two-acre lot off Avenida Vista Grande.
We work throughout Eldorado and the surrounding communities. Our local, hands-on approach means we handle every project with a customized plan. We consider everything: which way the wind comes across it, where water goes when the monsoon arrives, and how much landscape you genuinely want to maintain.
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Evergreen Landscape Pros is a landscaping company serving Eldorado, NM homeowners across the full range of outdoor work: design, planting, irrigation, hardscaping, fencing, and ongoing maintenance. Whether you have just moved into a bare lot or are reworking a landscape that has outgrown its irrigation, we handle the whole property, not just one piece. Landscaping in Eldorado, NM starts with the lot, not a catalog.
Eldorado properties tend to be larger and more exposed than those closer to the Santa Fe Plaza. That changes the economics. Watering an acre the way you might water a small in-town yard isn’t practical here, which is why much of the landscaping we design in Eldorado leans on native and adapted planting, efficient irrigation, and hardscape that reduces the area needing water at all.
We are based at 105 Cienega St in Santa Fe, roughly fifteen minutes from Eldorado, and we work here most weeks of the year. That matters more than it sounds when a crew needs to know which soils dig easily, where caliche turns up, and how a lot behaves in a hard wind.
We list every landscaping service in Eldorado below. Each main service links to its full page, with specialties beneath it for when you need something more specific.
Comprehensive landscape plans for new builds and full-property renovations, including planting, grading, outdoor lighting, and outdoor living areas. We handle both Residential Landscaping for Eldorado homes and Commercial Landscaping for HOA common areas, offices, and multi-family sites.
Water-wise design using drought-tolerant planting, gravel, and drip irrigation. This is the most requested work we do in Eldorado, and the approach most large lots here are best served by. Includes Native Plant Landscaping using chamisa, Apache plume, blue grama, penstemon, and other species already suited to this elevation.
Durable hardscape features that define and enhance the spaces you use, from patios and walkways to retaining walls and stonework. These aspects include everything from paver stone patios to retaining walls to customized walkways. We also specialize in outdoor living area services, including outdoor kitchens and outdoor fire pits that make an exposed lot usable on a cool evening.
Boundary definition, privacy, and wildlife exclusion matter a lot to local homeowners. We specialize in Coyote Fencing and Latilla Fencing for animal control, Cedar Fencing for full privacy, Stone Fencing for unique perimeter boundaries, and Custom Fencing where a mixed-material design suits the property better.
Efficient irrigation and drainage systems designed to manage water effectively and provide reliable coverage across larger properties. We specialize in high-desert area systems like Drip Irrigation, French Drains, Terraced Slopes, and routine Irrigation Maintenance, including seasonal startup and winterization.
Landscaping in the area is not a one-time deal. You cannot just plant it and forget it, which is why we offer maintenance and restoration services as well. Seasonal pruning, weed control, gravel refresh, irrigation checks, cleanup, winterization prep, and restoration of landscapes that have been neglected or no longer suit how the property is used.
Most Eldorado lots run well over an acre, and much of that area is native piñon-juniper woodland rather than planted landscape. The design question is usually where to concentrate effort, not how to fill the whole property.
Open ground and long sightlines mean wind moves across these lots with very little to slow it. It affects plant selection, fence design, patio placement, and where an outdoor space is actually pleasant to sit.
Decomposed granite, clay, and caliche can all turn up within the same property. We test-dig before quoting excavation work rather than assuming.
Deer, rabbits, and rodents browse heavily here. Plant selection and fencing have to account for that, or the planting bill gets paid twice.
Landscaping in Eldorado is planned around a limited water budget. It’s less a restriction than a design brief.
Larger properties mean longer irrigation runs, more linear feet of fence, and more ground to maintain. Scale changes what is practical.
Xeriscaping in Eldorado isn’t a style choice; it is a sensible option for high desert homes and businesses. It is also among the most commonly requested services we receive. Our customized water-wise landscaping includes native and adapted planting, gravel and mulch, hydrozoning, and efficient drip irrigation that let a property look established and intentional without an irrigation bill that grows every summer.
Native plant landscaping here draws on chamisa, Apache plume, four-wing saltbush, blue grama, penstemon, desert marigold, and native grasses, alongside the existing piñon and juniper. We work with what is already on the lot wherever it is healthy, because established native trees are worth far more than anything we can plant to replace them.
For the full approach, see our Xeriscaping & Desert Landscaping page.
Eldorado sits in piñon-juniper woodland and carries a wildfire risk that in-town properties do not face in the same way. Defensible space is a genuine part of landscape planning here, not an afterthought.
In practice, that means thinking in zones outward from the structure. We will design a landscape that helps keep the area immediately around the house clean and well maintained. We will ensure proper fencing, brush clearing, and wind-resistant designs are implemented where needed. It also means being deliberate about where you use mulch and what kind you choose, something we can also assist with.
Good defensible space work does not have to look like clearing. Done properly, it reads as a considered landscape, and much of it overlaps with xeriscaping and hardscaping we would recommend anyway: gravel courtyards, stone patios, and low-water planting near the house all serve both purposes at once.
Requirements and recommendations can change, so we suggest confirming current guidance with your local fire district or county resources. We are glad to plan a landscape that works with whatever the current recommendations turn out to be.
Irrigation in Eldorado has to cover distance efficiently. Long drip runs, proper zoning, pressure regulation, and a controller programmed for the season separate a system that works from one that quietly wastes water for years.
We handle drip irrigation design and installation, redesign zones for landscapes that have changed, repair breaks and leaks, and cover seasonal startup and winterization as part of ongoing irrigation maintenance. On established properties, an irrigation audit is often the cheapest improvement available: it is common to find zones watering dead plants, emitters buried under years of gravel, and controllers running a schedule nobody has revisited.
Drainage matters just as much. Monsoon rain arrives fast, and on open ground it moves. Grading, swales, French drains, and dry creek beds keep runoff away from foundations and stop it carving channels through gravel and planting. See Irrigation & Water Management for the full details.
This landscape doesn’t need much, but it does need the right things at the right time. Seasonal pruning, weed control before seed set, gravel and mulch refresh, irrigation checks in spring and shutdown in fall, and clearing woody debris all keep a property looking deliberate rather than neglected.
We also take on restoration work: properties where irrigation has failed, gravel has thinned, weeds have taken hold, or a landscape installed years ago no longer suits how the owners use the space. That is often more satisfying and less expensive than starting over. See Landscape Maintenance & Restoration.
Eldorado is a covenanted community, and landscape, fencing, and structure work can be subject to review. Height limits, materials, setbacks, and appearance may be governed by what you are building and where it sits on the lot.
Requirements vary and change from one property to another. This is why we recommend confirming current rules with your community association before ordering materials. We are glad to help you think through compliant options and to build to whatever the approved plan turns out to be. Bringing a drawing to a review is considerably easier than bringing a description.
Water use and irrigation may also be subject to local guidance depending on conditions in a given year. Confirming current requirements before a large planting or irrigation project is worth the phone call.
We walk the property with you, look at grade, soil, wind, exposure, existing planting, and how you actually use the space, at no cost and no obligation.
We put together a plan appropriate to the scope, from a simple planting layout to a full property design with hardscape, irrigation, and lighting.
You receive a detailed, itemized proposal with materials, quantities, and timeline before any work begins.
Utility locates, test digs where excavation is involved, grading, and drainage work before installation.
Hardscape, irrigation, planting, and fencing sequenced so trades don’t work over each other or through finished work.
We walk the finished property with you and leave you with a watering schedule and seasonal guidance specific to what was installed.
Property size is the biggest variable, and it cuts both ways. A larger lot means more linear feet of everything, but you rarely landscape the whole thing. Most Eldorado budgets focus on a defined area near the house rather than the whole parcel.
How much of the lot is actually being landscaped rather than left native.
Patios, walls, and walkways are material- and labor-intensive, and they drive budgets faster than planting.
Distance from the point of connection, number of zones, and whether you can reuse existing infrastructure.
Caliche, rock, and slope all add excavation time.
Larger specimens cost more up front but read established sooner.
Linear footage, material, and whether wildlife exclusion is required.
Long driveways and tight side yards affect how material moves.
Many Eldorado properties are landscaped in stages, which spreads cost and lets earlier phases establish.
We provide a free, itemized written estimate after visiting the property, and we are happy to plan work in phases.
We have built xeriscape conversions, flagstone patios, coyote and cedar fencing, drip irrigation systems, and full property designs throughout Eldorado. Every Eldorado landscaping project starts the same way, with a walk of the property. Whether the project is a courtyard or an entire parcel, we work at the scale that fits your property and budget, so ask to see recent work near you.
Courtyard, Gate & Stone Retaining Wall
Curved Stone Walkway & Drought-Tolerant Planting
Xeriscaped Courtyard & Water Feature
Eldorado is one of our most active service areas, not a place we occasionally drive out to. We know the soil, the wind, and how these lots behave.
Design, hardscape, irrigation, fencing, and maintenance under one contract, rather than coordinating four contractors who each blame the others.
Every design assumes water is the constraint, because here it is.
If a repair beats a replacement, or if a smaller intervention would get you most of the result, we will say so.
Evergreen Landscape Pros is fully licensed and insured for residential and commercial work in New Mexico. Every estimate is detailed, written, and free.
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Because soils, elevation, and water sources vary across the Española Valley, we design each property around its own soil, water source, and exposure rather than applying a single standard detail everywhere.
We are based at 105 Cienega St in downtown Santa Fe and regularly serve Española and surrounding communities, including Eldorado, Tesuque, White Rock, Española, Galisteo, Pecos, Pojoaque, Seton Village, Lamy, Los Cerrillos, and more than eighteen Northern New Mexico communities. If you are nearby and do not see your town listed, call us anyway: we very likely serve your area.
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Yes. We work throughout Eldorado, Santa Fe, and the surrounding area, including Lamy, Galisteo, Cañoncito, and Glorieta. We are based in Santa Fe, roughly fifteen minutes away, and we are in Eldorado most weeks of the year.
Most successful properties here concentrate detailed, irrigated landscaping near the house, use tougher, adapted plants in a transitional zone beyond it, and leave the native woodland largely intact at the edges. That keeps water and maintenance proportional to how the space is actually used.
That depends entirely on the design. A native and adapted planting scheme on efficient drip irrigation uses a small fraction of what a conventional lawn-based landscape would. We plan around a water budget from the first conversation rather than treating it as a constraint discovered later.
Possibly. Eldorado is a covenanted community, and landscape, fencing, and structure work may be subject to review depending on the project. Requirements vary and change, so confirm current rules with your community association before ordering materials. We build to whatever the approved plan becomes.
Yes. This planning is part of how we approach properties in woodland settings, and much of it overlaps with the xeriscaping and hardscaping we would recommend anyway. We suggest confirming current guidance with your local fire district, and we will plan the landscape to work with it.
Two things, usually together: plant selection weighted toward species that browse less readily, and fencing or protection where you want something they will otherwise eat. On open lots, fencing the areas that need it is usually more effective than trying to plant your way around the problem.
Yes. Seasonal pruning, weed control, gravel refresh, irrigation checks and winterization, and cleanup, plus restoration of landscapes that have been let go. Many Eldorado clients use us for both.
Yes, and on larger properties it often makes sense. We can plan the whole property, then build it in stages so earlier phases establish while we budget later ones.
It depends on how much of the lot is treated, how much hardscape is involved, irrigation runs, site conditions, and plant sizes. We provide a free, itemized written estimate after visiting the property.
Call Evergreen Landscape Pros at (505) 375-6901 or request a free estimate online. We will walk the property with you and put together a written plan and estimate at no cost.
Free consultation and a clear, itemized estimate, no obligation.
Whether you are starting from bare ground on a new build, reworking a landscape that has outgrown its irrigation, or looking for a crew that will handle the whole property rather than just one piece, we are here to help. Take the first step and schedule your free on-site consultation.
Call Evergreen Landscape Pros at (505) 375-6901 or request your free estimate online. We will design and build landscaping in Eldorado that suits your lot, respects your water budget, and holds up to wind and wildlife.
