Park Places Landscape Design - Donna Park, GCLP

After consulting with Donna about renovating our landscape, she created a landscape design for our entire yard, accounting for the lighting and existing issues within our yard. She then hand picked the plants, hired the necessary contractors, and supervised the crews throughout the renovation project. We are very pleased with the outcome and have received many compliments from people in our neighborhood. Donna is so easy to work with and ,went above and beyond our expectations. In conclusion, we highly recommend her for any of your landscape needs.

We have spent most of our time as homeowners of condos living in midtown Atlanta. So, owning a house with a yard and landscaping needs has been brand new to us. Donna has been to our home countless times over the past year answering tons of questions, helping to transform the weed pit we bought into a beautiful and live-able yard we feel great calling home. She has been very attentive to detail and our concerns with trees, stumps, grading, plant selection for beds (carefully making recommendations based on sunlight, scent, size, color requests, etc!), and irrigation concerns. I trust her recommendations on plants, yardwork teams and crews, and timing. She has been very good with seeing the potential in our yard, recommending what to keep vs. what to change, addressing drainage issues, and overall has had very good vision about how to work with our existing landscape to make the best possible changes.

Donna exceeded our wildest dreams with the landscape renovation plan she created and executed for our front yard, courtyard and rear yard. She carefully took measurements of the areas, drew plans showing the location of every proposed plant. She personally visited her favorite nurseries and picked out all the plants. She would haul the smaller plants in her car to either our house or her house until it was time to plant them or she would arrange to have the larger plants delivered. Next, she marked the location of every plant for the landscape installation crew and monitored the planting. I can't imagine all the time and anxiety she saved us. Thank you Donna. It was truly a pleasure having you do all this work for us. We continue to get compliments on how good looking our yard is now.

Even though we consider our project to be "in process", I feel confident that the end result will be exactly what we have hoped for. This is my first experience working with a landscape professional and Donna has lived up to the title. She is creative, practical, responsive and "in tune" with our hopes and budget. Her expertise in working with pruners, installers, irrigation personnel etc. has been outstanding. She respects not only the client but the people she chooses to "make it happen". We look forward to Spring growth of what has been installed as well as working with Donna on continued improvements to our yard .

We are having a great experience and wonderful results with Donna and her Park Places Landscaping! Donna has designed and installed a renovation of our front and back yard. Our home had mass builders’ plantings, and it was time for us to address a drainage problem while giving it some well deserved tlc. We also wanted new plantings and a small basketball shooting patio for our son. Donna listened to our goals and concerns, and integrated her advice and creative vision. Her experience and thoughtfulness brought out the best in our yard. She presented choices for us for plantings. We’d decide and she would then dynamically provide other recommendations or changes as needed, in an iterative and collaborative process. Her design fee was worth it. Donna is so committed and caring for the results that she hand picks and individually shops (among multiple nurseries) for all the plantings. She takes how your home looks personally. Our project took place in multiple stages/installations. Donna plans out the timeline for what’s best for the project and results. We have had landscape projects where they just wanted to sell you what they had in stock, install as soon as possible to collect their money and leave quickly to the next job. Not the case with Donna. Contractors of the actual installation work were great. We decided to go with teams she’s worked with before. They worked hard, quick and professionally. Donna supervised all the work, arriving before and staying after the teams, every day. She also selected the best teams for the particular tasks and made choices to save money on our behalf. Donna is very detailed and professional with estimates, billing and project scope, which she always provided in line item detail. If the budget/estimates for a phase were off compared to final/post installation, they were minimal and mostly under budget. After installation, Donna continues to contact us with reminders on caring for our new yard, “watering heavy and deep because the freeze is coming.” And even visits our home 1 hour away to check on the plants. With follow-up guidance. We are so thrilled to have met and worked with Donna and Park Places. We enthusiastically recommend you considering her!

Drainage issues hampered my ability to create a useful and attractive backyard. None of my attempts to handle the problem made a difference, and the only thing I felt when I looked at my backyard was frustration and sadness. I loved to garden but had given up. Donna Park arrived and knew immediately what had to be done. I now have the most beautiful yard with no water issues. Thank you, Donna!

After meeting with several other landscape companies which were very disappointing, I found Park Places on Houzz. At my initial contact, I found Donna to be very professional, and she was willing to work we me in phases due to my budget and surgery schedule. All of her contracts and estimates were clear and very easy to understand. I did go over budget, but you don't buy the new outfit and not get the jewelry. Took a little longer for completion due to health issues, weather, and scheduling conflicts but this is normal for any project. I would not hesitate to recommend Donna Parks.

In my lifetime I have landscaped 5 new homes; working with Donna is the First time I know I got it right! She is the only one who ever measured anything and Donna measures everything! Her plans are architecturally thought out and on paper. Donna puts together the art and science to design your landscape in a style designed just for YOU. She has the knowledge and experience to create a unifying and coherent look. When Donna manages the work you are guaranteed to not only get what you pay for but each and every aspect of the job is "Done Right". She stands strong and tough making sure the "landscaping business" does not take advantage of you. The materials, plants and execution is held to her educated high standards, not guess work that many "landscapers" live by.

I cannot say enough good things about Park Places Landscape Design. Donna is a professional you can count on and have total confidence that the job will be done correctly. From her design advice to coordinating all the necessary qualified contractors to perform the work made our project an easy process. Our project required design services, tree removal, hardscape design, drainage systems, soil prep and planting. Throughout, Donna was at our home overseeing the entire process. It's nice when the professional you hire responds quickly and does what they say. We always were informed and confident that our project was in good hands. Deadlines were met, and our project was done at a fair price. I highly recommend Park Places Design for your landscape project.

Donna Park provides excellent professional expertise from concept design through installation. She ensured that both hardscape and landscape construction for my project were delivered on time, on budget, and with quality. She was always on-site when work was underway. This attention to detail really paid off. The new approach to our house is welcoming and the plants are thriving. We couldn't be more pleased!

Upon moving to our intown home we wanted to design a pet friendly and relaxing backyard for us to enjoy. Working with Donna was great! She listened to our needs, likes, and dislikes and designed a beautiful intown backyard sanctuary. The first thing people say when they see our year is "wow you have your own sanctuary back here" and we do! Unfortunately, Donna was not able to execute the installation due to distance constraints, however, we are forever in her debt for providing the vision for our yard. It is beautiful, low maintenance and pet friendly! Thank you Donna!

We've been working with Donna Park renovating our 1987 overgrown landscape for about 3 years now. We started in the back yard and working our way around the house. Last year we focused on the front of the house (pictured in Houzz - Brookfield Home) when the driveway was in need of replacement, as well as our front steps and walk way. This year our focus was a part of the back yard not touched in an earlier project. Donna always comes prepared with lots of good suggestions but when I have a specific idea in mind she works it into her plan as well. She comes prepared to do the job with all the right subcontractors to put the job in motion at just the right time when they are needed, and when the job is complete Donna goes the extra mile whenever tweaks are needed.

Working with Donna & Team was such a wonderful experience. I hired them in the Spring of 2014 to turn my uninspiring backyard into an English Garden. From planning to instillation the process was stress free. The end results are more beautiful than I ever dreamed. The updated patio & garden beds have created an additional living space to my home. We begin & end most days in this space. I definitely recommend Donna & Team for your landscape needs. She is a talented professional and a delight to work with.

We had a serious drainage problem which prompted the contact. Donna came up with some beautiful solutions and we ended up following her suggestions for hardscape and drainage, as well as plant material. Our goal was to have year round color and a variety of plant materials which we have achieved. Our property is situated near the entrance of our sub division and we have had many passer-by commenting on the beautiful landscape and asking for our designer. We have worked on our project in stages and hope to initiate Donna's ideas for our front entry soon. True to her word, Donna is present on the job site to insure execution is carried out as planned. I would highly recommend Donna.