JSL Landscape Design & Construction

Sedona based Landscape Design and Installation for residential projects that involve any aspect of outdoor living and creative environments, including renovations, new construction, consultations, lighting, pool design, pavers, walls, patios or design-only services.

Since JSL Landscape is both a professional landscape designer and a licensed contractor, you will be able to visualize your new landscaping before any construction begins with a level of comfort and trust.

The result is a custom designed outdoor environment that meets your standards and budget, yet gives you certainty knowing the design is exactly what you're looking to achieve.

There really is nothing we cannot design and build for the outdoors. However, here is a checklist and maybe you will get inspired by reading all the possibilities and perhaps see something you haven't thought of yet.

•Pavers for driveways, patios,
•Custom pool designs
•Softscape including trees, shrubs, lawns, flowers and boulders
•Fireplaces and firepits
•BBQ islands and outdoor kitchens
•Courtyard walls and arched entries
•Custom water features or stand-alone fountains
•Decorative pots, planters and walls
•Cultured stone veneer, flagstone, travertine, tile and other masonry
•Decorative concrete coatings (faux flagstone, Kool Deck, etc.)
•Site grading and drainage
•Earth contouring including mounding, boulders and granite
•Irrigation systems designed for water conservation
•Professionally designed low volt lighting systems
•Sustainable Landscape Design
•Smart Irrigation Systems
• Rainwater Catchment Systems
•Synthetic lawns and putting greens
•Gardens for vegetables, herbs, flowers
•Gates and fencing
•Ramadas, gazebos, pergolas, trellises

Company Backround

John Stuart Leslie holds a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from California Polytechnic University Pomona, an Arizona Landscape Contractors license, and has been designing and building landscapes since 1998.

Early in his career, he was an environmental land use consultant specializing in coastal development in California.

I work directly with my clients one on one in a manner that educates and informs. My listening skills are refined and so you will not find me talking the entire time during our meetings. It's your home, your yard and your needs and desires that I must cultivate in order to achieve a thoughtful design.

I consider myself to be a designer who happens to be a contractor, not the other way around. Do I have a particular style or design approach? Not really. I will let the photos on this website address that issue. My attempt however is to blend stone, water, fire, plants
and sculptural elements into designs that evoke a sense of serenity, liveliness and beauty. Balance is the key to good design.

My deeper interest in gardens, nature and design is something I feel more about a garden rather than seeing it. I also use “Feng Shui” where appropriate. For clients that want a more spiritual focused design or space such as meditation garden, labyrinth or healing garden I can provide gardens that become "sacred gardens".

A vast majority of the landscapes I create are conventional and functional -- meeting the needs of the client for the budget they have to work with. So when I get a client that wants to do something out of the box, then I get to show my true colors.

My real estate background gives me a better understanding of the meaning of "curb appeal" as I work often with Realtors who always want to know how to improve a property but "not spend alot of money". There are ways to improve value in an affordable manner.