Matrix Landscaping is based in Belle River. We design, build, and maintain properties across the Municipality of Lakeshore — from the waterfront lots on Lake St. Clair through the County Road 22 corridor and out to the farm properties around Comber and Stoney Point. Our yard is here. Our crews live here.
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Most landscaping companies working in Lakeshore are Windsor companies with a truck and a trailer and a forty-minute commute. Matrix operates out of a yard on County Road 27. That changes how a project actually runs: crews start on site instead of on the highway, material comes off our own lot the same morning, and when something needs a second look in August we’re ten minutes away instead of scheduling you for next week. We handle the full build too — design, hardscape, grading, sod, planting, and irrigation with our own people, on one quote and one schedule.
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Lakefront lots come with problems inland properties never see: wind that shreds the wrong plantings, erosion at the grade break, and a view you can’t block with the usual privacy screening. We design around all three.
When the house is the nicest one on the street, the landscape has to hold up its end. We build finished properties — full design, quality stone, mature plant material, and detailing that still looks intentional in year ten.
Builders leave you a graded lot and a pile of clay. We take it from bare dirt to finished: proper grading and drainage first, then hardscape, then sod and planting, in the right order so nothing gets torn up twice.
Larger lots need a plan that concentrates the effort where you actually live and keeps the rest low-maintenance. We design the zone around the house properly and handle the acreage sensibly.
Older properties usually have good bones and thirty years of accumulated decisions. We work out what’s worth keeping, take out what’s failing, and rebuild the rest so it looks like it was always meant to be that way.
Plazas, offices, condos, and multi-unit properties get the same design and build process, scoped for traffic and durability instead of curb appeal alone.
Every Matrix project starts with a design and a fixed number — not a rough verbal and a surprise invoice. Below is the full scope we handle in-house. Most projects use four or five of these, and they all get sequenced so nothing gets built twice.
Our yard is at 1497 County Road 27 in Belle River. That’s the actual address, not a mailing drop. Crews leave from here, equipment and material are stored here, and the office is here. If you’re in Emeryville or Puce we’re under fifteen minutes out. If you’re in Comber or Stoney Point we’re still closer than anyone driving down from Windsor.
Water, almost every time. The Lake St. Clair shoreline sits on a high water table, and the inland half of the municipality is heavy Maidstone clay over tile-drained farmland that was never meant to be a subdivision. Both drain badly for different reasons. That’s why so many yards here have a soggy low corner, a patio that heaves, or a retaining wall leaning out after four winters. We survey grades and sort out where the water is actually going before we design anything on top of it. Skip that step and you’re rebuilding in five years.
No. That’s the main reason projects go sideways. We do the design, the hardscape, the grading, the sod, the planting, and the irrigation with our own crews, sequenced so nothing gets installed and then torn out. One quote, one schedule, one person accountable when something isn’t right.
Design-build projects at Matrix start at $5,000. The number moves with square footage, material selection, how much grading and drainage work the property needs, and whether we’re building from a bare lot or working around what’s already there. You get a fixed quote off approved drawings before anything starts. We’re not the cheapest option in Essex County and we’d rather say that upfront than waste your afternoon.
Further than most people think. Build season here effectively runs April through November, and the calendar fills over the winter. If you want a patio finished for July, the design conversation should happen in January or February. Fall is the better time to start anyway — we can walk the property, see how it actually drains during a wet stretch, and have drawings approved before the spring rush.
