Landscape design, hardscaping, lighting and planting for German Village homes and courtyards, planned around the German Village Commission review.
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German Village, Ohio
Peabody Landscape Group does landscape design, construction and maintenance in German Village, Columbus, Ohio, from our yard on Dublin Road in Columbus. We have been in business since 1982. Almost any exterior change in German Village needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the German Village Commission, landscaping included. Our own team designs and builds, and we plan a project around that review before work is scheduled.
Checked against city sources in October 2026. Rules change, so confirm with the city before you build.
Services
We offer hardscaping and landscape design and construction for courtyards, patios, walks and planting in German Village, including paver patio installation. See what patios cost here.
Because patios, walls and paving are exterior changes, the drawings and materials go to the German Village Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness before we build.
We offer landscape design for German Village lots, including backyard renovation. We pick plants for the light each bed actually gets and set the beds to keep water away from foundations.
We offer landscape lighting design and installation in German Village: low-voltage path, step, patio and tree lighting. Lighting is an exterior change, so it goes to the Commission with the rest of the plan. In a German Village courtyard, small fixtures along brick walks and walls light the way without glare toward the neighbors.
In a German Village courtyard a fireplace at the far end can become the focal wall of the garden, built in brick to sit with the house and the walks.
Burning rules are set by the city and fire department, and gas, footings and chimneys may need permits; your proposal lists that work before we start. More on our fire pits and fireplaces.
We offer lawn care and recurring maintenance for German Village homes and courtyards. Small lots and courtyards can take sprinkler systems too, installed and serviced by us.
We also offer commercial grounds maintenance, snow plowing and salting, and landscape installation for businesses in German Village. On a German Village street front, a written scope for each visit and each storm spells out walks, beds and the curb strip.
Any project that changes how the outside of a property looks needs a Certificate of Appropriateness. That covers fences, patios, walls, landscaping, lighting, paving and trees.
Staff can approve some categories, landscaping among them, but those approvals still go to the Commission at its next hearing for a vote. Hearings are typically the first Tuesday of the month at 4 p.m.
Routine upkeep such as repainting or fence repair typically needs no approval. Replacements do.
Removing a tree needs the Commission's permission plus a Certificate of Appropriateness, and street trees also need approval from Columbus Urban Forestry.
Columbus also requires a free forestry permit for work on a public tree, and for work within its critical root zone, so we check before any digging near the street.
German Village inquiries by contact form or phone go to the designer who will plan the work. We set a visit on your schedule and look at the lot, the courtyard and the street side with the Commission review in mind.
Questions about access, grade and approvals come up at the walk, before anything is submitted. A plan and a written proposal come first, and the Commission submission follows the plan.
We take on German Village projects. We design and build with our own team, and we plan each project around the German Village Commission review.
Landscape design, hardscaping and paver patios, planting, landscape lighting, yard drainage, lawn care and sprinkler systems, and commercial grounds maintenance and snow plowing.
Peabody Landscape Group designs and installs paver patios, walks, steps and seat walls, and prepares the drawings and materials for the Commission's review.
We do. In German Village the low-voltage lighting is designed along with the plan the Commission reviews. Lighting is an exterior change, so it needs a Certificate of Appropriateness.
Yes. On a German Village lot we regrade, redirect downspouts and surface water, and add dry wells and drain lines where needed.
Yes. We offer lawn care, spring and fall cleanups and sprinkler system installation and service.
Almost always. Any project that changes how the outside of the property looks needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the German Village Commission, including fences, patios, walls, landscaping, lighting and paving. Confirm the current process with the Commission before you build.
Only with the Commission's permission and a Certificate of Appropriateness. Street trees also need Columbus Urban Forestry approval.
Routine upkeep such as repainting or fence repair typically needs none, but a replacement does.
The designer calls you back, and the site visit fits your schedule. Call (614) 488-2877 or fill in the contact form.
Tell us about the property, the work, and the timing.
