Available sites today often include physical challenges such as steep grades, wetland areas or very exposed conditions. Early site planning is important to preserve natural topography and vegetation, to work with the existing character of the landscape, and to fully realize a property's potential for the benefit of its owners.

In collaboration with our clients, we develop unique settings that reflect individual lifestyles. Our purpose is to provide a range of services well beyond those of a surveyor, engineer or building architect, for custom results that add meaning, value, and a fresh originality. We design and build significant landscapes with your interests at heart.

Our success is based on:

• Listening to our clients and working to provide the best service in the industry. Integrity, honesty, and commitment to every project's success is our goal. This includes high quality craftsmanship and strict adherence to budget and schedule;
• Excellence in design, based on the best education available and over 15 years of experience, to bring out the most a property has to offer, for a beautiful setting that will only become better with age;
• A full command of construction methods, materials, and state building codes to ensure quality built forms designed to last through the decades;
• Careful detailing for accurate cost estimating, quality construction, and long-term ease of maintenance;
• Effective project management from helping to choose the necessary professional consultants and trades, to coordinating the project through to the end of the job;
• Added property value, whether you sell next year, or stay for 100 years.

DAVID BARTSCH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, INC. (DB-LA) was established on Nantucket in 1999, with our main office on the island, and an office in Boston serving our metropolitan clients.