Landscapers & Landscape Designers in Colbert
Cross Creek Landscape Design + Build is a landscaping and landscape design company serving Colbert, Washington, from our Spokane office. Colbert is a rural community north of Spokane, where properties tend toward larger lots.
Every project here starts the same way: a free on-site consultation, a survey of the property, and a design and blueprints drawn by our own landscape designers. Then our own crews build it, one team from excavation to the final install. Call the Spokane office at (509) 352-3433 to book a visit.
| Area | Colbert, Washington |
|---|---|
| County | Spokane County |
| Served from | Spokane office |
| Phone | (509) 352-3433 |
| Consultation | Free, on site |
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Building in
Colbert
We design and build across Colbert and the rural land around it, from homes on a few acres to larger wooded properties.
Deciding what to landscape
With more land, a Colbert design usually starts by deciding what not to landscape: a finished core around the house, with patios, beds and lighting, and native ground beyond it that is left alone or restored.
Wells and septic
Many rural homes here run on a well and a septic system. The drainfield has to stay clear of patios, parking and deep-rooted trees, and irrigation is sized to what the well can deliver.
Wildfire by design
Colbert sits among pine, where wildfire planning matters. NFPA's Firewise guidance puts the first priority on the five feet around the house, kept noncombustible, then on spacing and pruning out to 30 feet and beyond. Rock, pavers and irrigated planting can do that and still look finished.
What We Build
Services in Colbert
Case Studies
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A Backyard Built Around Water
Natural Landscape Transformation
Backyard Entertainment
Common Questions
Colbert
Landscaping FAQs
Do you work in Colbert?
Yes. Colbert is served from our Spokane office, and rural properties are welcome. The free on-site consultation is the time to walk the land and decide what gets built and what stays natural.
Can you landscape around a septic drainfield?
Around it, yes; on top of it, only lightly. A drainfield needs to stay free of hardscape, vehicles and deep-rooted trees, so the design keeps patios and planting beds off it and leaves grass or shallow-rooted ground cover on the field itself.
What does fire-resistant landscaping look like?
Rock, pavers or gravel against the house instead of bark, well-spaced plants, irrigated green areas as a buffer, and trees limbed up off the ground. Done well, it looks as finished as any other design.
Do I need a permit for a retaining wall in Colbert?
Colbert is in unincorporated Spokane County, where a wall taller than four feet from the bottom of its footing, or one holding back extra load, needs a County permit. Most garden walls are shorter than that.
Do you use native plants?
We recommend plants native to the Northwest wherever they suit the design. On rural land they blend into the surrounding ground, handle dry summers once established, and hold up to deer better than many imports.
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