Landscape Design Services Tailored to Your Long Island Home

Landscape design at Gary Duff Designs covers the full property plan, not just a planting layout. Each design blends architecture, circulation, and planting into one vision, integrating patios and masonry, lighting, and natural elements so the pieces work together rather than compete. Sun exposure, grade, drainage, and the way you move between the house and the yard all shape the plan before a single material is selected. Larger projects include detailed construction drawings so the build team works from exactly what the design team produced.

Gary Duff Designs is a family-led design-build firm with fifty years of work on Long Island behind it. The same team designs, manages, and builds every project, which means you are not coordinating between a designer who hands off a plan and a contractor who interprets it differently. Every design is drawn to complement your home's specific architecture rather than repeating a layout that worked somewhere else. Our name is on the result, and that has kept clients calling the same number for decades.

Front yards and backyards both fall within what Gary Duff Designs handles, often as part of the same plan. Curb appeal work focuses on arrival, meaning entrances, walkways, driveways, and the plantings that frame the house from the street. Backyard design centers on how you live outdoors, which brings in outdoor living elements like gathering space, shade, and lighting. Designing both together is what makes a property feel intentional from the curb through to the back fence.

Plant and material selection at Gary Duff Designs starts with the conditions of your specific site. Salt air, coastal humidity, wind exposure, freeze-thaw cycles, and deer pressure all determine what survives here and what looks tired within three seasons. A protected North Shore lot supports different material than an exposed South Shore property, so the same plan does not get applied to both. Decades of watching our own installations age on this island tell us what actually holds up.

Gary Duff Designs takes on select projects starting at $10K, with pricing shaped by property size, existing conditions, and how much of the site the plan addresses. A design refining one area carries a different investment than a comprehensive plan covering the full property. Whether the scope is narrow or broad, the same design precision goes into the work. During your consultation, we outline clear options so you can weigh scope against budget before committing.