Moon

We live in NE Cedar Rapids and hired Country Landscaping to do our backyard. We had them do the hardscape install too. I believe that you can hire them to simply draw up a design plan as well. The crew was wonderful, very hard workers. Our designer was very easy to work with although we didn't get to the phase of picking out individual plants because at that point we felt that we could do a more economical job of it ourselves. He definitely took what we said we wanted to use our backyard for and put together a plan to help facilitate that.

They prefer to use natural stones and cedar but the cost of the natural stones was more than our budget (so we ended up using blocks from Kings). My only suggestion (with whoever you work with) would be to be very clear on what you want accomplished and what your budget is to do it.