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Our Beginnings

Petrus began when its founders and luxury landscape designers Ward Dilmore and Gabe Thomas combined their experiences of Private estate gardening and commercial landscape services. Bringing both the rigorous demands for detail of private estates, with the efficiency of a commercial operation is where Petrus stands out.

With years of experience in landscape maintenance and design in the private sector, Petrus brings a highly detailed approach to your landscape. Creating beautiful outdoor spaces for years to come

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Team

bay area landscape designer ward dilmore standing in a garden

Ward Dilmore is a landscaping expert dedicated to creating beautiful outdoor spaces. He’s the Founder of Petrus, a renowned Luxury Estate Landscaping Company. Ward’s journey into landscaping began with a strong connection to nature and a sharp eye for detail developed over years of caring for private estates.

Gabe Thomas

Co-Founder

Ward Dilmore is a landscaping expert dedicated to creating beautiful outdoor spaces. He’s the Founder of Petrus, a renowned Luxury Estate Landscaping Company. Ward’s journey into landscaping began with a strong connection to nature and a sharp eye for detail developed over years of caring for private estates.

Shraddha Mehta

Head of Marketing

Ward Dilmore is a landscaping expert dedicated to creating beautiful outdoor spaces. He’s the Founder of Petrus, a renowned Luxury Estate Landscaping Company. Ward’s journey into landscaping began with a strong connection to nature and a sharp eye for detail developed over years of caring for private estates.

Our Work

Petrus brings inspiration from some of the most spectacular estates throughout the world. Influences from gardens in Italy, France and the Mediterranean to lush English gardens.Today Petrus brings maintains and builds landscapes for some of the most extraordinary homes in the country. Working with properties that require incredible attention to detail, including homes for tech giants of Silicon Valley to the celebrities of Pacific Heights.

Our dedicated team of over 30 experienced gardeners brings an incredible eye for detail to every project, with a strong emphasis on both efficiency and sustainability. Their skill set encompasses not only fine gardening but also hardscape expertise and technical irrigation work, ensuring that we provide comprehensive solutions for all your landscape needs. Whether it's creating exquisite garden features or implementing essential irrigation systems, our team is equipped to handle every aspect of your landscaping project.

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We went with Petrus Landscape to renovate our yard, which has a steep incline hill. With their clever and versatile designs, we got a very beautiful staircase and upper platform up to the top of the hill, tiered garden beds, a dry creek river into a pond, and a stone wall laid by hand. All the plants were carefully selected to be drought tolerant and hooked up an automate drip system to help save the most on water. We were very happy with how considerate and timely the project went along, the crew was very professional and informative. We would always be asked for input and any changes we wanted. All in all, we got a beautiful new yard, better than we imagined. Highly recommend them to work on your backyard renovations.

Jenny Stewart

East Bay, California

Ward and his team completed two different projects for our client, a large Silicon Valley company at their Sunnyvale Campus, which included redesign of the hardscaping in a very large atrium and required white gloving transportation of heavy material through a newly renovated cafeteria with new floors without any harm done in the process all during weekend hours. It was a tricky and delicate operation that they pulled off without having any affect on the company’s operations which was a key requirement of the project.
They also redesigned and replanted to make a more elegant and formal statement to the new patio planters at the company’s main entrance that was just freshly planted by the resident landscape maintenance company but was just not to the clients’ liking.
They carry out their work with thought, care and precision to get the job done right the first time with the least amount of fuss.
We will collaborate with them on all our large scale projects indoors and out knowing they have the qualifications, expertise and experience to pull it off and make everyone involved look good in the process.

Carmen Jiron

Amazing service, really enjoyed working with the Petrus team to help us set up and keep the landscape in our properties looking stunning!

Hernando Quintero

Bay Area

Frequently Asked Questions

Our services are divided into three options:

  • Project Design
  • Installation
  • Maintenance

Maintenance costs are calculated on the amount of visits required to your estate per week, the extent of your requirements, and how many gardeners are required.

Projects can have a wide range of budgets, depending on what services are required at your estate. For example, planting material, hardscape, and irrigation tech will have different levels of pricing.

  • We meet at your property and discuss your goals
  • We create a 3D rendering of the area of desired improvement.
  • Design is submitted to the client for approval of plant materials and their locations.
  • A proposal is created for the installation of the design
  • Design is installed

Payment terms are agreed upon after our initial property visit

In accordance with the laws of the State of California, Petrus is licensed, bonded, and insured. Our maintenance crews are courteous, respectful of your privacy, and are trained professional horticulturists.

Our team members service the highest level of estates in the Bay area. We guarantee the most professional level of service and discretion.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Our services are divided into three options:

  • Project Design
  • Installation
  • Maintenance

Maintenance costs are calculated on the amount of visits required to your estate per week, the extent of your requirements, and how many gardeners are required.

Projects can have a wide range of budgets, depending on what services are required at your estate. For example, planting material, hardscape, and irrigation tech will have different levels of pricing.

  • We meet at your property and discuss your goals
  • We create a 3D rendering of the area of desired improvement.
  • Design is submitted to the client for approval of plant materials and their locations.
  • A proposal is created for the installation of the design
  • Design is installed

Payment terms are agreed upon after our initial property visit

In accordance with the laws of the State of California, Petrus is licensed, bonded, and insured. Our maintenance crews are courteous, respectful of your privacy, and are trained professional horticulturists.

Our team members service the highest level of estates in the Bay area. We guarantee the most professional level of service and discretion.

Testimonials

Brian D
Brian D
2023-06-15
We are happy to have found Ward and team to care for our estate property. They are professional, knowledgeable and keen to work with client ideas flexibly. Ward and Gabe have also stayed personally hands on with our property since day one to make sure we are getting what we need. They currently service our property weekly, but no job is too big for them as they also renovated our 12K sqft backyard area with lawn and planted grasses and did an amazing job. We couldn't be happier to recommend them to anyone with a need for custom, quality landscaping and maintenance.
Chintan Mota
Chintan Mota
2023-04-22
We worked with ward and his team for a big project on our estate and their team did a fantastic landscape design for us. Definitely one of the best estate landscaping company in Bay Area
James D.C. Thomas
James D.C. Thomas
2023-04-10
Petrus has provided years of quality, professional landscape design and services. The Petus team is knowledgeable and mindful when working with clients. The team is always efficient and timely in their maintenance. I would recommend Petrus to anyone seeking exceptional gardening and landscaping resources.
Cathy Mahoric
Cathy Mahoric
2022-10-11
I am very happy with the service I receive from Petrus landscape. They are not just mow and blow gardeners, they take care of very specific things for me. We have different plants, trees shrubs, that all need different care and maintenance. They are very careful and thoughtful when doing their work. I also ask them to do larger projects to help redesign my landscape walkways, add vegetable gardens, etc. They are a real pleasure to work with and are very professional and detailed, always willing to address my questions and make sure things get done correctly. Because of that I have a beautiful yard and it makes me very happy. I highly recommend!
NC
NC
2022-10-07
Excellent services provided by Ward and his team! They are skilled in their craft and dedicated to providing immaculate service! 5+ stars please!
hernando quintero
hernando quintero
2022-09-30
Amazing service, really enjoyed working with the Petrus team to help us set up and keep the landscape in our properties looking stunning!
Trinh Tu Stewart
Trinh Tu Stewart
2022-09-28
We went with Petrus Landscape to renovate our yard, which haa a steep incline hill. With their clever and versatile designs, we got a very beautiful staircase and upper platform up to the top of the hill, tiered garden beds, a dry creek river into a pond, and a stone wall laid by hand. All the plants were carefully selected to be drought tolerant and hooked up an automate drip system to help save the most on water. We were very happy with how considerate and timely the project went along, the crew was very professional and informative. We would always be asked for input and any changes we wanted. All in all, we got a beautiful new yard, better than we imagined. Highly recommend them to work on your backyard renovations.
Carmen Jiron
Carmen Jiron
2022-09-26
Ward and his team completed two different projects for our client, a large Silicon Valley company at their Sunnyvale Campus, which included redesign of the hardscaping in a very large atrium and required white gloving transportation of heavy material through a newly renovated cafeteria with new floors without any harm done in the process all during weekend hours. It was a tricky and delicate operation that they pulled off without having any affect on the company’s operations which was a key requirement of the project. They also redesigned and replanted to make a more elegant and formal statement to the new patio planters at the company’s main entrance that was just freshly planted by the resident landscape maintenance company but was just not to the clients’ liking. They carry out their work with thought, care and precision to get the job done right the first time with the least amount of fuss. We will collaborate with them on all our large scale projects indoors and out knowing they have the qualifications, expertise and experience to pull it off and make everyone involved look good in the process.
D. L.
D. L.
2022-09-23
I have been working with Ward, Gabe and their team of gardeners at my clients estate for the past 5 years. I have found them to be reliable, professional, and extremely knowledgeable of landscapes. They certainly know their plants, and have been instrumental in bringing a fine level of detail to the estate I manage. Their team of gardeners are respectful, attentive, and go above and beyond to create the well manicured gardens that the estate requires. - Darryl H. Estate Manager