36 verified Google reviews, a 5.0 average, and 8+ years of retaining walls, drainage corrections, patios, fencing and landscaping across Central Iowa. Every review below is pulled live from Google — nothing on this page is written by us.
5.0 Average Rating
Across 36 Google reviews
Metro-Wide Customers
12 Central Iowa cities served
Serving Des Moines Since 2018
Locally owned & operated
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A five-star rating is only useful if you know what it's for. Here's the actual work Central Iowa homeowners hire us to do, and what we focus on in each one.
Our most-requested job in the metro. Homeowners on sloped Central Iowa lots call us when a railroad-tie wall is leaning or a hillside keeps washing into the yard. Every wall gets a compacted base, drainage rock behind the block, and a drain line out the low end — the details that decide whether a wall lasts 5 years or 25.
See our retaining walls workBuried drain tile with pop-up emitters, positive grading away from the foundation, and French drains for the low corner of the yard that never dries out. Iowa's heavy spring rains put every drainage plan to the test, and our repeat calls after storm weeks are usually from neighbors of past customers.
See our drainage & grading workPaver and flagstone patios sized to how a family actually uses the back yard — grill zone, table clearance, and a path that doesn't dead-end in mud. We set edge restraint and polymeric sand so the field stays tight instead of spreading after the first freeze-thaw cycle.
See our paver patios workBed redesigns, clean spade edging, rock and mulch installs, and plantings chosen for Iowa winters. This is the fastest curb-appeal upgrade we offer, and it's the work most often mentioned when a customer says the house finally looks finished.
See our landscaping & mulching workWood privacy, vinyl, and chain link installed on straight lines with square corners. We handle the locate call, the property-line conversation, and the gate hardware that actually swings right two winters later.
See our fencing workDriveways, sidewalks, steps, and slab replacements. Sub-base prep and control joints get the same attention as the finish, because that's what keeps Iowa concrete from cracking on a schedule.
See our concrete workNothing here is complicated. Most bad contractor experiences come down to the same handful of failures, so we built our process around avoiding them.
The single most common complaint homeowners have about contractors is silence. You get a real reply, a scheduled walk-through, and a written number — not a ghosted text thread.
Estimates spell out materials, base depth, drainage, cleanup, and haul-off. If something under the surface changes the plan, you hear about it that day, not on the invoice.
Compaction, drainage rock, geotextile fabric, edge restraint. Nobody photographs those layers, but they're the reason a wall or patio still looks right after a few Iowa winters.
Ruts repaired, debris hauled, driveway blown off. Job sites are in people's yards, and a finished project should look finished the day we leave.
We're based in Des Moines and work a roughly 20 miles radius around the metro. That means same-week site visits, crews that know which neighborhoods sit on clay and which sit on fill, and references that are usually a few streets from your house.
Yes. Every review on this page is pulled live from our Google Business Profile — we don't write, edit, or filter them. You can open the same reviews directly on Google using the link on this page and read them in their original context.
We currently hold a 5.0 average across 36 Google reviews from homeowners in Des Moines and the surrounding Central Iowa suburbs. The widget on this page updates automatically as new reviews come in.
Retaining walls are our lead service and generate the largest share of our reviews, followed by drainage corrections, paver patios, and landscape bed and mulch installs. We also get reviewed regularly for fencing, concrete, gutter cleaning, and soft washing.
Yes. Our gallery has photos of completed retaining walls, patios, drainage systems, and landscape installs across the metro, and we're happy to provide addresses of nearby finished projects you can drive past before you hire us.
We work throughout the Des Moines metro, including Des Moines, West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston, Clive, and the surrounding communities. Reviews come from across that footprint, not one single neighborhood.
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See for yourself why Des Moines homeowners trust Green Thumb Outdoor Solutions with their retaining walls, patios, drainage, fencing, and landscaping projects. Free on-site estimates across the metro.
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