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Salty Dog Lawn Care & Landscaping · Serving Wilmington
Paver Patios & Hardscapes in Wilmington, NC
From Leland, Wilmington is a 10-to-15-minute drive north via US-17 across the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, or through the MLK Jr. Parkway corridor depending on which part of the city the job is in.
Wilmington's housing stock creates two distinct paver markets. Newer developments in the Porters Neck and Ogden corridors have homeowners adding outdoor living space to lots delivered bare at closing. Established neighborhoods like Forest Hills have mature properties where owners are upgrading what's there -- tired concrete stoops traded for paver patios, crumbling landscape walls rebuilt in block. Salty Dog brings the same hardscape work across the Cape Fear that it does in Brunswick County, including a computer-rendered site layout before any material hits the ground.
A properly built patio starts with the ground, not the stone. We excavate, grade, and compact a stable base before the first paver goes down — the part that determines whether the surface stays level in five years. We build patios, seat walls, fire pit surrounds, walkways, and retaining walls in natural stone and concrete pavers sized to the site and the budget. Every project is priced upfront; no line items appear on the final invoice that weren't on the estimate.
About Wilmington
Wilmington sits just across the Cape Fear River from Leland, and that short bridge crossing puts Salty Dog within easy reach of a city with two very different faces: the older residential streets of Forest Hills and Sunset Park, and the fast-growing HOA and apartment corridors along Porters Neck Road and the College Road spine. Market Street and Carolina Beach Road each carry their own mix of commercial and residential properties, and the flat coastal terrain means drainage and turf problems here look a lot like they do in Brunswick County -- compacted soils, subdivisions where builder-grade sod never got proper follow-up, and stormwater ponds required in nearly every development built in the last 30 years. Salty Dog's full service range runs across county lines without a gap.
Serving Landfall, Porters Neck, Forest Hills, Monkey Junction and surrounding Wilmington.
Everything we do in Wilmington →Common questions
Do you service Wilmington even though you're based in Leland?
Yes. Wilmington is a primary service area -- the drive across the Cape Fear is short, and the team works regularly in New Hanover County on both residential and commercial accounts.
How long does a paver patio installation take?
For Wilmington customers: most residential patio projects take anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks depending on the size, design, and site prep required. We give you a realistic timeline in your estimate before any work is scheduled. Call (919) 685-2701 for specifics on your project.
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Tell us about your property and we'll come walk it with you. Transparent, upfront estimates for residential projects; detailed proposals for commercial contracts.