Harkness Gardens is the Monterey County GREEN BUSINESS CERTIFIED landscaping company, specializing in all aspects of residential garden design and installation.    

Mission

Our mission is to help homeowners create and cultivate beautiful gardens in an affordable, artful, intelligent and environmentally sound manner.

We firmly believe that beautifying the "green space" around your home and property will unlock its often hidden and always beneficial potential: 

• Proper landscaping installation and maintenance benefits the environment by the introduction of living plants (all plants absorb harmful greenhouse gases and release fresh oxygen), through soil structure improvement, water usage optimization, habitat creation and the cultivation of bio-diversity.
  

• Landscaped areas can have very important functions such as preventing run-off, watershed improvement, rainwater reclamation and habitat restoration.  Also, imagine saving energy wasted on cooling and heating by installing a green-roof!
  

• A well designed landscape will significantly improve property value.

• Creatively landscaped properties contribute to the overall beauty of the community, which ultimately leads to a more pleasurable happy living environment.

• Home gardens are endless supply of fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers.  Cultivating a home garden is great for the environment and will save the owner time and money.

• Time spent sitting, playing or cultivating in a beautifully landscaped and maintained garden will reduce stress.

What do you Envision?

We want to help you realize the potential of your landscape by bringing together your dreams with our expertise. 

When you imagine the ideal landscape for your home, do you picture exciting and active outdoor spaces, or tranquil and relaxing places of escape?  Perhaps a bountiful organic vegetable and cut flower gardens, navigated by  meandering paths?  

No matter what your dream, Harkness Gardens can make it real and where possible, do so utilizing green building materials, micro-irrigation technologies, organic fertilizers, non-invasive plants and green practices.