Meadowline Ridge
A steep, unusable slope held by board-formed walls and softened with silver-leaved meadow grasses that catch every bit of evening wind.
Design & build landscape studio
Picture the landscape
you've been dreaming of.
Boxcar crafts living, layered gardens that make the outside of your home the best room in it. Before we ever break ground, see your own yard reimagined — in seconds.
No forms, no phone tag — just your yard, transformed.
The fun part
See your yard reimagined —
before we plant a thing.
Curious what Boxcar could do with your space? Our visualizer paints a finished, Boxcar-grade landscape onto a yard like yours in moments. Drag the slider to compare — then open the tool and try it on your own.
Open the visualizer
Takes about 20 seconds. No sign-up.
What we do
Everything a garden needs,
under one small crew.
We design it, then we build it — no hand-offs, no subcontracted guesswork. The same people who draw your plan set the last stone.
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Landscape Design
Master plans and planting designs drawn to your site, your light, and the way you actually live outdoors.
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Softscape & Planting
Layered, four-season plantings — grasses, perennials, trees — chosen to thrive and grow more beautiful each year.
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Hardscape & Stone
Patios, paths, walls and steps in natural stone and board-formed concrete, built level and built to last.
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Water & Lighting
Still basins, quiet fountains and low, warm lighting that keep a garden glowing long past sunset.
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Grading & Drainage
The unglamorous groundwork — grading, drainage, soil — that keeps everything above it flourishing.
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Seasonal Stewardship
Considered seasonal care that lets a landscape settle in and get quietly better every single year.
Selected work
A few yards that
found their footing.
Every Boxcar project starts with the ground it stands on. Here are three that turned overlooked spaces into the rooms their owners live in most.
Fernbrook Courtyard
A shaded city courtyard turned into a cool green room — ferns, moss, bluestone, and a single still basin of water.
The Depot Yard
Reclaimed steel, prairie grasses and warm string light — a quiet nod to the rail yards that gave the studio its name.
The studio
Two people. One truck.
A stubborn love of good ground.
Boxcar started with two friends and a borrowed pickup, betting that a backyard could change how a whole family lives. We keep the crew small and the craft high — your project is designed and built by the same two hands, start to finish.
Nate Clark
Co-founder · Design
Nate draws the plans. He grew up rebuilding things with his hands and thinks in grades, sightlines, and the slow math of how a young tree will fill a corner in ten years.
Graham Ripple
Co-founder · Build
Graham makes the drawings real. He runs the yard, reads the soil, and has never met a stone wall he couldn't set dead level — or a plant he couldn't coax into thriving.
In their words
The yards changed.
So did the evenings.
“We'd stopped using our backyard years ago. Now it's the only place we want to be. Boxcar didn't just plant a garden — they gave us somewhere to be a family.”
“I've worked with a lot of contractors. I've never seen a crew care this much about a level stone or a true grade. It shows in every corner of the work.”
“They handed us a plan that felt like it already knew our house. Two seasons in, the garden looks like it has always been there.”
“Boxcar turned a muddy, useless slope into the best room of our home — the one that happens to have a sky.”
Your move
Your yard is already
somewhere down the line.
See where it's headed. Drop into the visualizer and watch a yard like yours become a Boxcar landscape — no commitment, no waiting.
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