Lawn care & mowing
Weekly or bi-weekly mowing, precision edging along beds and hardscape, and aeration twice yearly. We sharpen blades daily — clean cuts mean healthier turf.
$65per visit
from
Menlo Park · Est. 1999 · Family operated
Gardens
that
hover
between
Gardens
that
hover
between
wild
&
tended.
Hummingbird is a landscape and garden studio working across Menlo Park, Atherton and the Palo Alto foothills — designing, building and caring for outdoor rooms that feel inevitable to their place.
01 — Studio
Twenty‑five
years of quiet craft.
A family studio, not a crew-of-the-week.
Hummingbird began in 1999 as a two-person operation out of a truck and a clipboard. A quarter-century later we're still family-owned, still answering the phone ourselves, and still walking every property before a single shovel goes in the ground.
We listen first. The knowledge and skills we've gathered across thousands of Bay Area gardens are useless without the patience to understand how a family actually lives in their yard — the morning coffee path, the dog's circuit, the shady corner where the teenager hides. Every plan begins with that conversation.
We carry full liability and property insurance because we care about our employees and we care about your home. The reputation we've earned is the only asset we can't replace, and we treat it that way.
25+
Years in trade
1,200+
Gardens tended
100%
Insured & bonded
Est. 1999
Menlo Park, CA
Menlo Park, CA
02 — Services & Pricing
Eight ways
we shape a yard.
Indicative pricing for typical residential work across Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto. Final quotes are always site-walked and itemised — no surprises on the invoice.
Garden landscape design
Full site plan: layout, plant palette, irrigation strategy and a phased build schedule. Includes 3D sketches and a year-one care calendar.
$2,400per design
from
Tree & shrub pruning
Structural, thinning and canopy reduction cuts to ANSI A300 standards. We never top trees — every cut is made with a reason and a future shape in mind.
$185per hour
2-person crew
Hardscaping & stonework
Dry-laid flagstone paths, bluestone patios, decomposed granite walkways and low retaining walls. Drainage graded and inspected before any stone is set.
$28per sq ft
installed
Seasonal maintenance
Spring wake-up, summer deadheading, fall leaf management and winter cutback. A four-visit calendar that keeps a garden looking intentional all year.
$420per season
4 visits
Gutter cleaning
Hand-cleared gutters and downspouts, flushed and tested, with before-and-after photos. Critical before Bay Area winter rains — clogs cause foundation damage.
$145per visit
up to 2,500 sq ft
Irrigation & drainage
Drip system design, smart controller install, and French drain installation. We tune every zone to plant type — no more drowning the lavender to keep the ferns alive.
$95per zone
installed
Native & pollinator planting
California natives and hummingbird-friendly palettes — salvia, ceanothus, manzanita, penstemon. Low water, high life, four seasons of movement.
$12per plant
installed
03 — How we work
Four moves,
no mystery.
Every Hummingbird project — whether a single pruning visit or a full redesign — moves through the same four steps. Clear, written, and shared with you from day one.
01
Walk the site
We meet on the property, listen to how you use the space, and take note of soil, light, drainage and the existing plants worth keeping.
02
Write the plan
You receive a written scope with a phased timeline, plant list and a fixed quote. No verbal estimates, no scope creep, no “we'll figure it out as we go.”
03
Build with care
Our crew arrives on schedule, protects your hardscape, and cleans up daily. Every plant is hand-set, watered in, and mulched before we leave.
04
Tend the result
Gardens aren't finished — they're begun. We offer ongoing care so the work matures into what the plan promised, season after season.
04 — Selected work
A garden is
a slow argument.
A handful of recent projects across the Mid-Peninsula. Each one began with a conversation and a clipboard — and is still being tended by the same crew that built it.
A native pollinator border, rewoven into an Atherton front lawn.
05 — Contact
Tell us about
your yard.
Send a few details and we'll be in touch within two business days to schedule a site walk. For urgent matters — a fallen limb, a flooded bed before a storm — call us directly and we'll route a crew.
Studio
Menlo Park, California
Service area
Menlo Park · Atherton · Palo Alto · Woodside · Portola Valley
Phone
(650) 555-0199
Email
[email protected]
Hours
Mon–Fri · 7:00am – 5:00pm · Site walks by appointment