Atlanta · Since 2008
Landscapes built to live with, season after season.
A small, referral-led landscape practice shaping gardens, drainage, and stone for Atlanta's finest homes. Led by Manoj Kumar — seventeen years of patient ground work.
A small, referral-led landscape practice shaping gardens, drainage, and stone for Atlanta's finest homes. Led by Manoj Kumar — seventeen years of patient ground work.
Four quiet disciplines, practiced with care across metro Atlanta's residential and commercial properties.
Considered gardens that read as inevitable — planted for the way Atlanta actually lives through the year. Full design, installation, and seasonal care.
Layered perennial beds, native pollinator gardens, and formal plantings sourced from regional growers. Built to return, year after year.
French drains, channels, catch basins. Engineered below, invisible above — designed for decades of Georgia rain and the quiet protection of your foundation.
Natural stone and engineered walls that hold the slope and read as architecture. Hand-built by a crew that has laid stone across Atlanta for a decade.
I started Binda's seventeen years ago with one truck and a belief that the yard is a structural thing, not a decorative one. Most of the problems people call me about were written into the slope years before they moved in.
My job is to read that, then resolve it. Quietly. Without drama. In a way the next rainstorm confirms.
A small sampling of projects across Buckhead, Druid Hills, Virginia-Highland, Brookhaven — and the commercial campuses in between.
A rotating look at gardens, plantings, stonework, and grounds we've shaped across Atlanta's most considered properties.
Call Manoj directly, or send a note. We'll walk the property within the week — usually sooner.
Every project begins with clear paper — scope, phases, numbers. Five formats we use, depending on the job and the client.
| Scope of work | Qty | Rate | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site assessment & master plan Topographic survey, drainage study, planting schedule |
1 | $4,200 | $4,200 |
| Perennial bed installation Front & side gardens, 1,400 sq ft, regional natives |
1,400 | $18/sf | $25,200 |
| Fieldstone retaining wall Hand-laid Georgia fieldstone, 42 linear feet |
42 | $340/lf | $14,280 |
| French drain system Rear slope, tied to existing storm line |
1 | $6,800 | $6,800 |
| Subtotal | $50,480 |
| Materials escrow (15%) | $7,572 |
| Total | $58,052 |
Seasonal planting refresh Spring perennials, mulch top-dress, boxwood trim |
$3,840.00 |
Irrigation tune & zone repair Zone 4 head replacement, controller re-program |
$680.00 |
Bluestone path repoint 18 linear feet along east garden walk |
$1,240.00 |
Monthly maintenance (May) Four visits, full crew, hauling included |
$1,600.00 |
A north-facing courtyard, forty feet square, currently paved in a grey concrete that holds the summer heat until midnight. The clients want it cool, green, and quiet — a place to read in July.
Our proposal removes the slab, introduces a permeable stone floor, builds two raised planters against the west wall, and establishes a small fig tree at the center as the garden's anchor.