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A landscaped back garden with a curved lawn, stone-edged planting beds and a covered flagstone patio
Landscaping · Durham, North Carolina

Add leisure back to your busy life

Award-winning landscape design, installation and maintenance across Durham and the Triangle since 1993. We liberate you from routine landscape maintenance and create the perfect outdoor setting for you and your family.

Durham, North Carolina.
Serving the Triangle.

Founded 1993.
NCNLA award winners.

The company

Leisure Landscapes is a Durham landscaping company working across the Triangle. A design professional comes to your home and draws a customized plan, we install it with quality materials and workmanship, and then we come back and maintain it in top condition.

Paul Martin, founder and owner
Maria Rodriguez, garden maintenance lead
James Wilson, tree and shrub specialist
David Eldridge, irrigation expert

Trusted by 6,800 Triangle homeowners and businesses since 1993

Licensed, certified and accredited
Registered Landscape ContractorCertified Irrigation ContractorCertified Plant ProfessionalEnergy Saving Landscape CertifiedStormwater BMP CertifiedISO 9001:2005 CertifiedNC Nursery & Landscape AssociationBBB Accredited Business
Hands holding an itemised landscape proposal beside a hand-coloured site plan

A hand-coloured plan and its itemised proposal, drawn for the Boudreaux residence

How we work

We draw the plan before anyone picks up a shovel

Every project starts with a design professional at your property, measuring what is there and listening to how you want to use it. You get a customized plan and an itemised proposal, so you know exactly what is being built and what it costs before the first plant goes in.

About the company
  • Design the optimum solutionA design professional comes to your home and draws the landscape around how you actually use it.
  • Install it with quality and careQuality materials, proper workmanship, and a crew that finishes in a timely fashion.
  • Maintain it in top conditionWe come back and keep it that way, so the landscape you paid for is the one you keep.
What we do

Design, install, maintain. Fourteen services, one company.

All services

Leisure Landscapes sends a design professional to your home for a customized design.

Hands holding an itemised landscape proposal beside a hand-coloured site plan

Hands holding an itemised landscape proposal beside a hand-coloured site plan

Thirty years of landscapes we still look after

The Douglass-Godshalk home with clipped topiary, seasonal bedding and a manicured front lawn

The Douglass-Godshalk landscape, kept in show condition through every season

By the numbers

Since 1993 we have worked with more than 6,800 customers across the Triangle, and today we maintain over 250 properties on an ongoing basis. Our work has been recognised by the North Carolina Nursery and Landscape Association with both the Merit Award for Excellence in Landscape and the Distinction Environmental Award.

We are a registered landscape contractor and a certified irrigation contractor, licensed, insured and bonded, with further certifications in energy-saving landscape design and stormwater best management practice.

See the projects

30+

Years landscaping the Triangle, since 1993

6,800

Satisfied customers on our contact file

250+

Properties under ongoing maintenance

345+

Completed design and build projects

Featured projects

Four Triangle properties, start to finish

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