My name is Ryan Scott Sant. I founded A to Z Landscaping & More in 2015, and South Kitsap has been part of our territory ever since. Port Orchard properties deal with clay soil, seasonal moss, drainage on sloped lots, and heavy tree shade. We know exactly how to work through all of it. Call or text for a free estimate.
Started in 2015 with one crew and a straightforward goal: do the work right, show up when we say we will, and handle the jobs that actually need doing in Kitsap County. That's still the business. No franchise. No call center routing your job to whoever is available. No crew that rotates in and doesn't know your property. A to Z Landscaping & More is a locally owned and operated company based in Kitsap County, led by Ryan Scott Sant, and built around residential and commercial property work across South Kitsap and the surrounding peninsula.
9 years in, we have finished over 1,300 projects. Routine lawn care and maintenance. Landscape installs from the ground up. Retaining walls and patio builds. Full property cleanups for yards that haven't been touched in years. Pressure washing jobs on homes that needed a hard reset. The work covers the full range of what Pacific Northwest properties actually require, not just the easy, clean-cut stuff.
Port Orchard is one of the areas we've served from day one. The soil conditions here, the way the rain moves through a sloped lot from October through March, the moss that resets itself on lawns every single fall. We've been working through that on real properties in this area for close to a decade. It's not something we're learning on your job.
Most contractors here make big promises upfront. I don't. I walk the property. I look at what's actually there. I give you a number that reflects the real work, and then we do it. That's been the whole model for nine years, and it's the reason people call us back.
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Our main services — all built around what works in Port Orchard's climate and on its soil.
South Kitsap lawns fight moss, clay compaction, heavy shade, and wet winters all at once. We handle mowing, edging, fertilization timed for Pacific Northwest turf, weed control, core aeration, overseeding, and moss treatment. The goal is a lawn that holds through a Kitsap County winter and comes back strong every spring, not just one that looks fine during our two dry months in July and August.
Learn MorePort Orchard properties deal with heavy evergreen shade, slow-draining clay soil, and slopes that direct water to the wrong places. We design around what's actually on your property. Plant selections built for PNW winters, grading that directs drainage away from structures, and outdoor layouts that function through rain season rather than only when the weather cooperates for a few months.
Learn MorePatios, retaining walls, walkways, steps, and drainage systems built to last through Kitsap County's wet seasons. A lot of the hardscape calls I get in Port Orchard are repair jobs. Walls built without drainage behind them. Patios that settled into soft clay. We fix those, and we build new ones correctly, starting with the base, so the structure holds when the rains return.
Learn MoreSpring cleanups, fall cleanups, storm debris removal, overgrowth clearing, and full property resets for yards that got away from the owner. Port Orchard winters produce fast, aggressive growth. Blackberry canes, English ivy, volunteer alders. We cut it back, haul it out, and leave the property ready for whatever comes next, whether that's ongoing maintenance or the first phase of a bigger build.
Learn MoreThree things drive almost every yard problem in South Kitsap. Clay soil. Wet winters. And tree canopy that blocks the light for months at a time.
It's the most common call we get. Homeowners treat the surface with iron sulfate, and it clears out for a few weeks. Then October arrives with the rain, and it resets. Moss is a symptom. It shows up where soil pH is low, drainage is poor, and sunlight can't reach the turf. Without lime application, core aeration, and a fix on the underlying drainage, you're in the same conversation next spring.
Clay holds water rather than moving it through. On a sloped South Kitsap lot, that means soggy turf, runoff toward the foundation, and plant beds that stay saturated for days after the rain stops. McCormick Woods properties deal with this specifically, because many homes there were built on compacted fill soil over existing clay. The drainage was never designed for what the ground actually does.
Western Washington grows things back fast. One wet season is enough for blackberry canes to reclaim a cleared patch of ground. English ivy spreads into tree root zones. Volunteer alders fill in cleared areas before grass can establish. A one-time cleanup without a follow-up plan just resets the clock.
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The first step is always a walkthrough. Not a satellite photo. Not a form submission. An actual visit to the property. Most jobs in Port Orchard can't be quoted accurately from a picture. Slope matters. Soil type matters. Where the water goes during a heavy rain matters most. We need to see it.
After the visit, you get a written estimate in plain language. What we're doing, and why we're doing it in that order. For lawn care clients, that's a maintenance schedule built around South Kitsap's actual seasonal calendar. Fertilization timed for Pacific Northwest turf, not the national guides that assume a Midwest summer. Core aeration scheduled before fall seeding. Moss treatment timed to when the soil conditions will actually let it hold.
For hardscape and landscape builds, we work in the right sequence. Base work and drainage come first. Structure goes in next. Surface finishes and plantings come last. That sequence is not optional on a Kitsap County property. Skip it, and you'll have a beautiful patio sitting on soft ground within two years.
After 1,300-plus jobs across Kitsap County, I've seen nearly everything South Kitsap can produce. Soggy McCormick Woods lots where fill soil was packed over clay and never drained right. Steep Manchester slopes that erode hard after every winter rain cycle. Overgrown Bethel Corridor properties where blackberry canes ran unchecked for a season or two. Long Lake Road yards shaded out by 50-foot Douglas firs where no grass variety has a chance without a real plan behind it. Homes near the Sinclair Inlet waterfront where wind and salt knock out standard plantings inside one season. Different conditions every time. Same process: look at the property, tell you what we find, do the work we said we'd do.
9 years. More than 1,300 completed projects. A 5.0 rating on HomeAdvisor with verified reviews going back to 2019. Here's what those reviews actually say: Ryan showed up when he said he would. The crew did the work the estimate described. The property was left clean. Those are baseline expectations for decent work in any trade. They're also the things that consistently separate us from the contractors people called before us.
Port Orchard homeowners who hire us once tend to call us back for the next job. Some of our longest lawn care clients have been with us since our first year of operations in South Kitsap. That pattern matters more than anything I could write here to sell you on it.
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Straight answers to what Port Orchard property owners ask most.
9 years in Kitsap County. Over 1,300 projects finished across South Kitsap and the surrounding peninsula. If your Port Orchard property needs lawn care, landscaping, a hardscape build, or a full yard cleanup, call or text Ryan Scott Sant directly. I will come to the property, walk it with you, tell you what I see, and hand you a straight written estimate. No forms. No call center. No pressure, no pitch.
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