Cardinal Ridge designs, builds, and maintains exceptional outdoor spaces for the estates and homes of Northern Virginia — from quiet garden rooms to grand stone terraces.
Cardinal Ridge was founded on the belief that a landscape should feel inevitable — as though the property could not have existed any other way. We work as a single integrated team across design, installation, hardscape, and care, so the vision you sign onto is the vision that grows in.
From the rolling estate parcels of western Loudoun to the wooded lots of Reston and the new builds of Ashburn, we bring the same standard to every property: considered design, careful construction, and a long view of how a place matures with time.
Most landscape work splinters across three or four vendors. Ours doesn’t. From the first site walk to the spring opening years later, every piece of your property is handled by one accountable team.
Master-planned outdoor spaces drawn site-specific to your home, your light, and the way you actually live outside. Plans you can build from, today or in phases.
The build phase, executed by our crews. Trees, beds, lawn, and finish grading set the bones of a property that will only get better.
Stone terraces, flagstone walks, retaining walls, and built-in features. Substrate done right, joints set tight, designed to age beautifully.
Weekly programs that keep the property reading sharp year-round. Mowing, edging, blowing, fertilization, and seasonal care — on schedule, without reminders.
Safe, efficient removal — insured climbers, controlled drops, surgical access for tight properties. The right tool for every tree.
Precision pruning to keep mature trees healthy, balanced, and reading clean against the architecture. Crown raises, deadwood removal, structural cuts.
Old stumps ground out below grade, soil restored, ready to plant or sod over. The line of the yard reads continuous again.
French drains, dry wells, swales, and downspout tie-ins. We solve the wet corner of the yard once, properly, so the rest of the landscape can thrive.
Efficient, zoned irrigation systems with smart controllers. The plantings get exactly what they need — nothing wasted, nothing thirsty.
It begins on the property.
We walk the site with you, listen for the way you want to live outside, then return with a plan: scale, materials, plantings, phasing, and a transparent budget. Nothing breaks ground until the drawing is right.
Our crews. Our calendar.
Installation is handled by Cardinal Ridge teams from grading through the last stone — one point of contact, no surprises on site. You get one project manager and one schedule, kept.
Care that protects the work.
Maintenance isn’t a side service — it’s how a landscape becomes great. Our care programs keep the lawn, beds, trees, and systems performing as designed, year after year.
A few of our favorite turnarounds — tired yards rebuilt into the kind of outdoor space the property always deserved.
“The land doesn’t need decoration. It needs attention.”
Cardinal Ridge is based in Aldie and works across Loudoun, Fairfax, and Prince William counties. If your property is anywhere in this footprint, we can be on site quickly — and our maintenance routes already pass nearby.
“We have been so thrilled over the last 7 years trusting Cardinal with everything in our yard: maintenance, landscaping, fertilizer and weed control, tree work … Wouldn’t think of going anywhere else!”
“The Cardinal Ridge team did an incredible job taking down a large pine in my front yard that was crowding my Maple. They were diligent, ensuring where utility lines went through my property and knocked out the project in only a few hours.”
“Reece and his team transformed our yard beautifully. They handled everything from sodding the backyard to cleaning up beds and trimming trees with professionalism and efficiency.”
Both. Cardinal Ridge is a design-build-maintain firm, which means the team that draws your plan is the team that installs it — and the team that cares for it afterward. No hand-offs, no finger pointing.
Anything from a single front-entry refresh to a full estate landscape with hardscape, drainage, lighting, and irrigation. We’ll be honest if a project isn’t a fit and point you in the right direction.
Design consultations are typically scheduled within a week. Build calendars run a few weeks to a few months out depending on the scope and season — the sooner you start the design conversation, the better.
Yes. Most clients keep us on a weekly or bi-weekly maintenance program after install. It’s the single best way to protect the investment in the landscape.
Yes. Cardinal Ridge is licensed, bonded, and insured for the work we do, from planting to tree removal. Documentation is available on request.
Aldie (HQ), Leesburg, Ashburn, Gainesville, Reston, Chantilly, Centreville, and Manassas, plus the surrounding Loudoun, Fairfax, and Prince William county communities.
Whether it’s a first design conversation, a maintenance program, or a tree that needs to come down tomorrow — we’d like to hear from you.