Planting that brings the garden together
Garden beds wrap around the terrace and the house.
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Landscape Design
Garden Bed Installation Martha’s Vineyard
Grow healthier, more beautiful gardens. We design and install custom planting beds, combining premium organic compost and soils with native perennials, shrubs, and clean edges.
Garden bed installation on Martha's Vineyard combines balanced planting palettes, premium organic compost, and clean edges. Infinity Landscaping designs bed shapes around the home's architecture and selects evergreen shrubs, ornamentals, perennials, and groundcovers that coordinate in color, texture, and bloom time. Foundation plantings, perennial borders, and pollinator beds all suited to Island soils and deer pressure.
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Documented work from a complete landscape installation on Martha’s Vineyard. Follow the project to see how these spaces connect.
Planting that brings the garden together
A defined bed follows the side of the home.
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Planting that brings the garden together
Layered planting softens the edge between house and lawn.
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Landscape Design
What this page covers
Custom garden layout & selection
We design bed shapes that match your home's architecture and topography. We select a balanced mix of evergreen shrubs, deciduous ornamentals, perennial flowers, and groundcovers that coordinate in color, texture, height, and bloom time.
Organic soil preparation
Healthy plants start with healthy soil. We excavate bed areas to remove weed roots, break up compacted subsoil, and blend in premium organic compost, aged manure, leaf mold, and biochar to create a nutrient-rich planting base.
Clean border edging
We establish crisp, defined lines between your lawn and garden beds. Whether you prefer a deep-cut hand-edged soil border, natural fieldstone borders, or durable aluminum edging, we ensure your bed lines stay neat and easy to maintain.
Drip irrigation & mulching
To protect your new plantings, we install low-volume drip irrigation tubing directly on the soil surface, providing deep moisture to roots. We then cover the beds with premium double-shredded cedar or pine mulch to suppress weeds and conserve water.
Landscape Design
Designing gardens for Island soils
Martha's Vineyard soils are famously sandy and fast-draining, particularly in down-island areas like Edgartown and Oak Bluffs. Without proper organic matter, water and fertilizers leach away quickly, starving plant roots. Up-island, clay deposits and rocks can create drainage pools that lead to root rot.
Our garden bed installations are designed around these variations. We perform soil texture and pH tests before selecting plants, ensuring we amend sandy beds with plenty of organic compost to hold water, or design gravel-based drainage layers for clay-heavy yards. We focus on planting native and adapted species that once established, survive dry island summers and coastal winds.
Process
Garden bed design elements we use
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Layered heights
Placing tall shrubs and evergreens at the back, mid-sized perennials in the center, and low groundcovers along the borders to create depth.
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Textural contrasts
Pairing fine-textured grasses with broad-leafed hostas or hydrangeas to add visual interest even when flowers are not in bloom.
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Seasonal rotations
Designing beds that offer color and structure across all seasons, from spring bulbs and summer perennials to fall foliage and winter evergreen branches.
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Wildlife support
Selecting native flowering plants that attract local pollinators, bees, and butterflies, supporting the Island's ecosystem.
A clear starting point for your property
A few details help us understand the work before the first conversation.
Your priorities
Identify the outdoor spaces you want to use and what is missing from the current landscape.
The property as it stands
Share photographs, any available site plans and details of building work that needs coordination.
A coordinated installation
Discuss paving, planting, lawn and practical access together before agreeing on the sequence of work.
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Frequently asked questions
Topsoil provides the mineral structure (sand, silt, and clay) for your garden, but it lacks the active organic biology and nutrients that plants need. Compost is decomposed organic matter rich in microbial life and plant nutrients. We blend both to build a balanced, fertile root zone.