Yorklyn is the kind of place people move to for a little peace and quiet, and the yards here should deliver on that promise. Meadow View Gardens provides landscaping in Yorklyn, PA, the quiet residential community just northeast of York city in the Springettsbury Township area, and most of what we build here has one purpose: giving homeowners a backyard worth staying home for.
We are a family-run company based on Poplars Road just west of York, which puts Yorklyn an easy drive across town. Owner and designer Rick Jacobus has spent more than 30 years designing landscapes in York County, and he handles every Yorklyn project personally, from the first walk around your yard to the last paver set in place.
What makes a backyard retreat work in Yorklyn, PA?
A backyard retreat works when three things come together: a comfortable place to sit, something worth looking at, and enough privacy and light to actually use it in the evening. That combination is what Yorklyn homeowners ask us for more than anything else. The neighborhoods northeast of York are settled and residential, close enough to town that the workday ends quickly, and the natural next question is what waits for you when you get home.
Rick designs retreats as one connected picture rather than a list of separate features. The patio faces the pond instead of the neighbor’s shed. The path from the back door curves past a planting bed instead of cutting a straight line through the lawn. Lighting is planned on day one, not bolted on later. When those pieces are designed together, even a modest suburban lot starts to feel like somewhere you would pay to visit.
“The best compliment I get is when a client tells me they cancelled a weekend trip because they would rather sit out back. That is the whole job.” — Rick Jacobus, owner and designer
Who installs paver patios in Yorklyn, PA?
Meadow View Gardens designs and installs paver patios throughout Yorklyn and the surrounding Springettsbury Township area, and Rick has been installing patios for more than 25 years. The patio is the anchor of nearly every retreat we build here, because everything else in the yard organizes itself around the place where people actually sit.
On the established lots common around Yorklyn, we spend real time on layout before anything is excavated. A patio slid tight against the back wall of the house often bakes in the afternoon sun and stares straight into the next yard over. Pulled a few steps out into the landscape and angled toward the quietest corner of the property, the same square footage feels twice as private. Our paver patio installation service covers the full range of what makes a patio livable: proper base preparation for York County’s clay, borders and steps that fit the grade, and additions like pergolas and fire pits that stretch the season from early spring into late fall.
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Can a small garden pond fit in a Yorklyn backyard?
Yes, and a small pond is often the feature that turns a nice Yorklyn patio into a genuine retreat. You do not need a large property or a koi collection to get the effect. A compact garden pond or a pondless waterfall tucked beside the seating area adds the one thing no planting can: the sound of moving water, which softens road noise and makes a suburban backyard feel a long way from anywhere.
Rick builds ponds to match the maintenance appetite of the homeowner. Some Yorklyn clients want a true koi pond they can feed from the patio; others want a pondless waterfall that disappears into a gravel basin and asks almost nothing of them. Both are covered in detail on our water features service page, including how we handle liners, pumps, and winter care in our climate. Sited well, a small pond also earns its keep in the off months, catching frost and low winter light when the rest of the garden has gone quiet.
How does landscape lighting extend evenings in Yorklyn?
Landscape lighting roughly doubles the hours a backyard gets used, because in Pennsylvania the most pleasant time to be outside is often after the sun drops. For working households around Yorklyn, weeknight evenings are when the retreat actually gets enjoyed, and an unlit yard simply goes dark and disappears at dusk.
We design lighting in layers rather than lining fixtures along a path like a runway. Around here that usually means:
- Warm, low-level light where people sit, so the patio glows instead of glares
- Uplighting on one or two trees or the waterfall, giving the yard depth after dark
- Subtle path lights only where footing needs them, on steps and grade changes
Good lighting is restrained lighting. A few well-placed fixtures make an evening yard feel calm and inviting; too many make it feel like a parking lot. Because Rick designs the lighting alongside the patio and pond rather than after them, the wiring goes in before the pavers do, and nothing has to be dug up twice.
Do you serve the neighborhoods around Yorklyn?
Yes. We work throughout Yorklyn and the residential streets northeast of York city, and across the rest of the county as well. You can see every town we cover on our service areas page.
Each area gets its own kind of work from us. Just south, our projects in Stonybrook, PA lean toward the same established-lot renovations we do here, while farther north in Manchester, PA we are often starting from bare new-construction ground. In Yorklyn, the yards usually have good bones already, and our job is to turn a plain lawn behind a settled home into the most-used room of the house.
We are licensed in Pennsylvania (PA078269), and because Rick manages each job from start to finish, the person who sketches your retreat is the same one standing in your yard while it is built.
Ready to plan your Yorklyn backyard retreat?
Tell us how you want your evenings to look, and Rick will walk the yard with you and sketch out what is possible. Call 717-578-9029 or send us a note below.
