Reviews of Higher Ground Landscaping and Design (Architect)

Matt Torgerson

Working with Mike and his team was seamless from quoting to completion. Keeping our budget in mind they delivered on every level. We especially enjoyed how considerate and clean they were while onsite and will definitely have them back to expand our backyard oasis soon.

Tom Loughin

Mike designed and installed three separate structures in our tiny yard, including some ornamental landscaping, a raised bed for gardening, and another bed for an apple tree, raspberries, and strawberries. Now a few years later, everything is filling out very nicely. He made great use of the space and put in plants that have done well for their spaces and light. Our landscape puts out different colours all season long, from tulips in the spring to black-eyed susans in the fall, with different grasses adding texture. The raspberries have been prolific from year 2, and this year the apples produced more than we can eat. Great output from our tiny space!

Cory P

Mike & Esther are a pleasure to work with :)

David Dunnison

We've worked with Mike for over three years now, on major and small projects. Hopefully that, in and of itself, is a strong endorsement. Mike and crew are well beyond capable, dependable and hard-working. They really know their stuff from plant selection and overall design through to harmony with existing and natural vegetation and landscape while optimizing cost, planning and execution. Yes, I highly recommend them.

Liz blair

Mike and his team did a stunning job with our front yard. It finally looks like it belongs on our street! Thank you for an amazing job. You really helped us to flesh out our vision of what it should look like both during the day and at night.

Dee Bee

What a great experience! From our initial meeting/planning through to completion, Mike and his team are top notch professionals. He and his crew, Tim and Anthony know their stuff. They delivered on time and on budget. You can depend on these hard-working guys to complete your project and get it right the first time. We highly recommend them. Ron and Debi

Larissa Lange

After moving to north side of Panorama Ridge from Fraser Heights back in 2017 we decided on full re-landscaping of the 0.25 acre of a new to us property. In the process we dealt with two landscaping companies Swicks out of Richmond for our back yard in 2018 and Higher Ground for the front yard just recently as we were not comfortable giving Swicks more business; can't help but compare those two. We are pleased with the results provided by both companies, however we had much smoother and stress free experience with Higher Ground Landscaping. In our opinion the key to a much better experience with Higher Ground is the owner's in person involvement throughout the process and his dedication to the job at hand and respect for timeline expectations. We felt Mike the owner was very approachable and easily reachable unlike Ron Swicks whom we saw once when he came out in person and basically completed the sale; he later was involved in email and phone communication to address our unhappiness with the number of things. In dealing with Mike of Higher Ground we felt the level of integrity was bar none which put us, customers, at ease, unlike with Swicks where I had to hoard all emails etc. for future reference. Here is an example: the Japanese maple per plan was not available and Mike brought a less mature replacement and explained to us pros and contras of a new plant, did not impose the new arrangement on us and assured us since new plant material was cheaper he will give us credit. As customers we would have never known had the switch of plant material occurred with no discussion; we appreciated the transparency. Every business wants more business and on that note I recommend to discuss with Mike 'big picture' first and decide for yourselves which parts of this 'big picture 'you wish to execute now or stagger project out over a period of time. We went for a a clean not fussy design of our front yard with architectural support of 'alan block 'wall and low maintenance garden delivering consistent beauty through the seasons. We are pleased people notice and compliment on our front yard and are hopeful that some of these folks will decide to deal with Higher Ground based on our recommendation. Wishing you and team Mike all the best in your business! Regards. Larissa and Michael Lange