A tiered stone water feature set into a wide mown lawn with young trees and mulched planting beds behind

Landscaping · Kansas City metro

Your outdoors is no longer just a place for the kids and dogs to run around

We design and create high quality landscapes and outdoor living areas that let you truly enjoy your yard and use it like an addition to your home, or a mini vacation away from the hustle and bustle of life.

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Spring Hill, Kansas.
Serving the KC metro.

Founded 2002.
180+ team members.

The company

Next to Nature has been landscaping the Kansas City metro since 2002. Design, installation, irrigation, lighting and maintenance are all handled by our own people, so the crews on your property answer to the company that drew the plan.

Owner-led since 2002, with more than 180 people in peak season

A pool with a stone patio, covered outdoor kitchen and terraced planting beds

Outdoor living

Patios, kitchens and the space around the pool

A formal garden with clipped planting and cut stone paving

Landscape design

Planting that suits the house it sits against

A designed residential landscape with layered planting beds and a stone walkway

A design meeting on site is where every project starts

How we work

We listen first, then we design

Our design process begins with meeting and listening to the needs of our client. Our team then creates a design to fit your landscape vision, functionality and budget, and we walk you through it in person before anything is installed.

About the company

IntegrityWe say what a project will take and what it will cost, then we do that. Our designers meet you in person to review the plan before anything is installed.
InnovationWiFi-controlled lighting and irrigation, a seven-step lawn program and in-house design tools, because the better tool usually makes the better landscape.
Hard workMore than 180 people in peak season, working in house rather than subcontracted, so the crews on your property answer to the company that drew the plan.

What we do

Six services, one company

All services

A design built around your vision, your yard and your budget.

A designed landscape with layered planting beds framing a stone path

Two owners, twenty years, and a team that stays

A finished residential front landscape with layered beds, trimmed shrubs and a stone edge

A finished front landscape in the Kansas City metro

By the numbers

Wayne Barber and David Ward started the company in 2002 with five full-time employees. It now runs with more than 180 people in peak season, across design, installation, irrigation and maintenance.

The management team carries over 75 years of combined experience in the green industry, and more than 50 of those years have been spent here.

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2002

The year Wayne Barber and David Ward founded the company

180+

Peak-season employees across design, installation and maintenance

75+

Years of combined green industry experience in our management team

50+

Years of combined tenure at Next to Nature among our managers

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