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We are a licensed and certified landscape company that installs everything from sprinklers to sod, and patios to pool decks. We are known for professional concrete and hardscape installations, custom patio areas, and excellent landscape maintenance. If you need a trusted company to transform your outdoor area, call us today for a free estimate at

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Backyard Landscaping Remodel Videos!

Costa Mesa Backyard Remodel

A fully renovated backyard space, now including beautiful benches, perfect pavers, and a custom firepit worth talking about! Costa Mesa Landscaping at its finest.

For more information on this Orange County landscape project, check out these other blogs:

Modern Backyard Remodel

Outdoor Wall Decor

Garden Grove Before and Afters

From a dead yellow backyard to a vibrant green lawn with a custom stacked stone fire pit installation and matching planter walls. What a difference!

Anaheim Backyard: Decluttered

Man alive! This backyard was past its prime. Even for a person who likes cactus, it was a bit too crowded, and the concrete patio area was cracking. TRU Landscape Services was able to give more space to the backyard by installing a wonderful pavers patio, a big green lawn, and stacked stone retainer walls around the yard.

Westminster Front Yard Spruce Up

Okay, so this front yard landscape was just… boring at first. Our crews installed a brand new walkway with planter walls that lead straight to the front door. The front porch was blinged out with the installation of ceramic tile. One of my personal favorites about this front yard landscape are the birch type trees installed in the planters with low voltage LED lighting pointing up at them. Looks really nice at night with the landscape lighting on! Another “special feature” of this new landscape are the LED step lights to illuminate the path.

TRU Landscape Services: Orange County Landscape Contractor

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TRU Landscape Services is capable of transforming your landscape in just about any way you want! We build water features, and pour concrete driveways. We are licensed to build custom outdoor fireplaces too! TRU will give you a fair price, and is just a phone call away.

Mission Viejo Patio Remodel

What will you do with your backyard? With TRU Landscape Services, there are unlimited options for renovating your landscape! As a licensed landscape contractor, we do everything outdoors. From planting and maintaining a lawn to installing sprinkler systems, we care for your softscape. In the realm of hardscape, we pouring driveways and pave patios, building elaborate water features and set fire pits alight.

stamped concrete patio, custom wood patio cover with balcony, stacked stone barbecue island

This Mission Viejo patio remodel includes a custom stacked stone barbecue Island, a stamped concrete patio, planter walls, and a wood balcony with a patio cover extension. Other features include a low voltage LED lighting system in the planters.

Orange County Patio Construction

Sometimes you just need to overhaul an area of your landscape. We can help. As your premiere orange county landscape contractor, TRU wants to partner with you to create an outdoor experience you will enjoy. When it comes to patios, we love to make outdoor living areas for relaxation and entertaining family and friends. With fire, food and friends, what more do you need to unwind in your backyard paradise?

Stamped Concrete Patio

Stamped concrete with a sealant on it for a beautiful patio that will last

Stamped concrete provides a visually interesting patio surface with easy clean up. We can stain your concrete in a variety of colors and stamps patterns to suit your visual preferences.

Orange County Barbecue Island and Custom Balcony

The biggest features of this Orange County landscape are the barbecue island and the custom balcony/patio cover. These installations fill out the bulk of this small to medium sized back yard. They make an outdoor kitchen experience possible. Your American Made grill and barbecue Island are perfect for serving up a delicious outdoor dining experience. Make the patio your new dining room under the shade of our custom patio covers.

Low Voltage LED Lighting and Stacked Stone Siding

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To fill out the edges of the property, we installed planter beds with Low Voltage LED landscape lighting. The stacked stone planter walls match the barbecue island to tie the hardscape together. It’s poured in place concrete cap also provides seating!

Our low voltage landscape lighting system will save electricity over less efficient systems. American made landscape lights are also built to last and under warranty! They are weather resistant and bright enough for any landscape lighting set up. We only use top of the line landscape LED lighting to ensure your landscape is safe and well lit at night.

Landscape Construction Series

We decided to go more in depth into this Orange County landscape construction project.

Here are 3 other blogs to give you more details on each aspect of this patio construction process:

1) Barbecue Island

2) Stamped Concrete

3) Patio Cover Construction

Orange County LED Lighting

Orange County Landscape Lighting

TRU Landscape went out on a estimate today for landscape lighting. This estimate was in the city of Irvine. Irvine is located in Orange County, California. The customer wanted to get a estimate on the new LED lights. Like most people they had allot of questions about our company and the lights that we are selling. We explained that the lighting company that supplies our lights has been working with us for over 15 years. In Orange County there is hundreds of landscape lighting companies, so why use one company? It’s a simple answer, They have great service!

Orange County Lighting

One of the questions our customer had was, How efficient are LED lights? The simple answer is that the typical LED fixture will produce the equivalent light output using about 80% less energy. A great comparison is a 20-watt MR-16 lamp which is the most common bulb used in landscape lighting in Orange County. Compared to 3-emitter LED with high-performance optics, using about 4.5 watts, These two provide light output that is virtually equivalent in lumen output, color temperature and beam control. By installing LED lights we can use a smaller transformer. Which saves money. We can install more lights on one run, which saves money on wire.

Orange County Landscape Lighting

Another question our customer had was, How much energy would a typical Orange County residential customer save in one year with an all LED installation versus an equivalent one with halogen lamps? Considering an installation using 900 watts of halogen lamps, operated nightly for 10 hours, the annual energy cost at the local rate of $0.145 per kwh is approximately $476.00 The same system with the equivalent number of LED fixtures with equivalent lumen output would cost $95.00 annually to operate. Another factor to consider is that your typical halogen system would require re-lamping after one year. Your LED system has a average life of 50,000 hours or 17 years of use in the typical application.