Montalvo Landscape
Montalvo designs, builds and maintains private gardens for residences from Key Biscayne to Fort Lauderdale. Salt-tolerant planting, engineered drainage and crews that return every week: landscapes built to survive August and still look intentional in March.
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Explore our gardens
Gardens planned for a climate that punishes shortcuts: 60 inches of rain a year, salt spray, Category 4 winds. Walk through the projects and see how they look five years after planting.
The art of planting Private gardens The art of planting. Private gardens
Look at what holds a garden together: a coquina edge, a clump of sabal palms, the shade line of a live oak at four in the afternoon. The design lives in those details.
One firm, from grade to canopy
Every property starts with a survey: soil pH, water table, wind exposure, the flood zone on the county map. Designers, arborists and install crews work from that data as one team, under one contract and one point of contact.
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Estate design-build
Grading, drainage, irrigation, hardscape and planting for new residences, coordinated with your architect from permit set to final walk-through.
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Garden renovation
We rework gardens the house has outgrown: invasive ficus hedges removed, specimen palms relocated, pool decks and landscape lighting rebuilt.
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Estate care
Weekly horticultural care by the crew that installed the garden: pruning to ANSI A300, fertilization plans, irrigation audits and hurricane prep.
Two generations in South Florida soil
Rafael Montalvo started in 1991 with one truck and a nursery in Homestead. His daughter Elena, a licensed landscape architect, now leads design. 1,400 gardens later, most of our trees still come from our own 40-acre field in the Redland.
