Sierra Summit

Truckee, CA

Big lots, full sun, and every deer in Truckee

Glenshire is where we do the most actual landscaping rather than clearing. The lots are large, a lot of them are open and sunny rather than buried in forest, and there is room to build something. The constraint here is not fire so much as it is browse: the deer pressure through this neighborhood is the heaviest we deal with.

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A prepared planting bed with shrubs in nursery pots and a shovel standing in fresh soil

What Glenshire does to a landscape

  • Open sunny lots, so plants that scorch at altitude have nowhere to hide
  • The heaviest deer browse in our service area, which rules out most of a nursery
  • Larger parcels mean zone 2 out to a hundred feet is actually achievable
  • Wells on some parcels, which changes what an irrigation plan can assume

We will not plant it if the deer will eat it

There is a short list of things that reliably survive Glenshire deer, and it does not include most of what looks good at the nursery. We would rather have the disappointing conversation in the design phase than replace a bed at our own cost in August, which is the alternative.

Our work in Glenshire

Full design and install work for Glenshire families, plus irrigation and seasonal maintenance on repeat schedules.

Every service, in Glenshire

From Glenshire neighbors

★★★★★

Design & Build
“Third try at this bed. The first two landscapers planted things the deer ate by August. Three years in, this one is still there.”
Peter and Sam D. · Glenshire

★★★★★

Irrigation
“Previous system cracked its first winter because nobody thought about draining it. This one has been fine for five.”
Bethany L. · Glenshire

★★★★★

Defensible Space
“I asked three companies for defensible space photos by zone. They were the only one who said yes without hesitating.”
Tom H. · Glenshire

Photographed, zone by zone, for your insurer

Every defensible space job gets photographed before and after in each zone, with the work listed against the requirement it satisfies. You get that packet as a PDF. When your carrier asks for proof, you send it instead of scheduling another inspection.

Property in Glenshire?

We walk it with you and send a written zone-by-zone assessment in two business days. Free either way.

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