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Welcome to Creative Land Design!

Providing mini staycations in your own back yard.
As one of many Landscape Contractors in Maryland, we recognize the desire for homeowners and developers to have one landscaping contractor provide a complete package of landscaping services. From the initial 3D Landscape Design to the last detail of construction, Creative Land Design is the only landscape company you will need to complete your entire landscaping project.

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For over thirty years, Creative Land Design (CLD) has been recognized as a premier landscaping company in Maryland. CLD is an all-inclusive landscape company specializing in unique and artistic services. Joe Cramer, president of CLD, opened the doors in 1989 with several goals in mind.

First, he wanted to provide magazine-quality landscapes…, the backyard oasis, and literally create postcard staycation experiences.

Secondly, he desired to be "the go to" company that provided the entire package from design to completion, and most importantly, to be personally involved in every step of the process.

Lastly he longed to use his studies in Landscape Design at the University of MD, diving into artistic swimming pool design, and incorporating his in-depth study of various landscaping styles including Japanese gardens to create his own unique style of Maryland landscaping. Joe became a student of everything landscaping, including nature itself.


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You can tell a Creative Land Design project at first glance. Whether it be the creative use of boulders in naturalized rock gardens, marrying softscapes and hardscapes together forming a soft natural blend of elements..., or the use of water features such as ponds, water gardens, and waterfalls that are almost impossible to know as man-made.

Immediately a passer-by would notice one of CLD's exclusive Living Retaining Walls™ or (boulder walls). These walls are designed with plant pockets filled with rock garden plants, creating an environmentally friendly, aesthetic and structurally sound retaining wall that becomes the focal point of the landscape, as opposed to something to hide.

If one were to venture into the back yard, one might find one of CLD’s custom natural swimming pools with a swim up bar, sometimes designed to look more like a pond then a pool; always designed to become part of the landscape and blend into its surroundings as opposed to being its own entity.

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The pool would most likely be bordered or even part of one of our architectural outdoor rooms possibly surrounded by an exquisite rockscaping plan, with specimen plantings and even a possible stroll-garden to pull the guest through the design.
A design complete with elegant hardscaping and stone work as well as custom carpentry and a tranquil low voltage lighting plan.

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Whether you are looking for a Maryland Landscape Architect, landscaping contractor, custom swimming pool builder or retaining wall contractor…, a hardscaping contractor, stone mason, pondscaping specialist..., a rock garden, an outdoor kitchen, outdoor lighting plan, or environmental green spaces..., Creative Land Design offers all such services as a form of art, all wrapped up in one company, to provide you with the unique experience of going on vacation without ever having to leave the yard.

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