Westwind Landscape Construction Inc

By the Yard is a distinctive, specialized Albuquerque-based landscaping and outdoor living company that brings a uniquely integrated approach to creating beautiful, fully functional outdoor environments. Operating in close association with Perfection Pools ABQ, By the Yard specializes in the complete outdoor environment — thoughtfully designing and installing landscapes that beautifully complement swimming pools, spas, and water features to create seamless, cohesive indoor-outdoor living experiences that transform how New Mexico homeowners use and enjoy their properties throughout the warm season. The company's specialized services are designed around creating complete, integrated outdoor living environments where every element works together harmoniously. These include thoughtful landscape design that thoughtfully integrates with pool and spa areas for a unified look, hardscape patios, decking, and lounging areas around pools using slip-resistant, heat-tolerant materials suitable for barefoot use, shade structures, pergolas, and ramadas that provide necessary relief from New Mexico's intense sun, outdoor kitchen and barbecue area construction for alfresco dining and entertaining, fire features including fire pits and fireplaces that extend the outdoor season into cooler evenings, native and adapted plantings specifically selected to thrive around pool environments without excessive leaf drop or maintenance issues, privacy landscaping and screening that creates intimate outdoor rooms, landscape lighting that dramatically transforms pool and landscape areas for nighttime use and safety, comprehensive irrigation system design for efficient watering, and ongoing landscape maintenance that keeps the entire outdoor environment looking its best. By the Yard's specialized expertise is distinctive and valuable in its focused attention on pool-integrated landscape design — a niche that requires specific knowledge that general landscapers often lack. The team deeply understands the unique requirements of landscapes thoughtfully designed to surround swimming pools in New Mexico's climate: managing drainage and splash-out so pool water doesn't damage plantings or hardscape, carefully selecting plants that don't excessively drop leaves, flowers, or fruit into the pool water where they create maintenance problems and stain surfaces, choosing hardscape materials that remain slip-resistant when wet and don't burn bare feet in the intense New Mexico sun, and designing circulation patterns and traffic flow that work naturally for both pool use and outdoor entertaining. This specialized knowledge, accumulated over many pool-integrated projects, ensures that landscapes thoughtfully complement pool areas rather than creating ongoing maintenance problems or safety issues. The company serves Albuquerque homeowners who are making a significant investment in swimming pools and complete outdoor living environments and want everything to work together beautifully, as well as property owners with existing pools who want to upgrade their surrounding landscapes to better complement the water feature. Their clientele genuinely values the significant convenience of working with a single company that deeply understands both the landscaping and pool environments and can create completely cohesive outdoor spaces without the coordination challenges of managing separate contractors for pool and landscape. By the Yard has built a solid, specialized reputation for quality work that genuinely enhances both property value and daily quality of life for homeowners. What genuinely distinguishes By the Yard is their specialized, focused expertise in the pool landscape niche and their close working relationship with Perfection Pools ABQ. This valuable relationship allows them to precisely coordinate landscape installation timing with pool construction schedules, ensuring that critical elements like grading, drainage, hardscaping, and planting work seamlessly with pool decking, equipment placement, and construction access. The valuable result is genuinely cohesive outdoor environments where every single element — cool water, warm stone, living plants, and built structures — works together in complete harmony. For Albuquerque homeowners actively creating their ideal outdoor living space centered around a beautiful pool, By the Yard delivers integrated, expert design and execution that creates a true backyard paradise.