Charles, IL / Storyteller / Apr 27, 2026 /
Arellano Landscaping, a team of retaining wall experts in St. Charles, Illinois, is marking 14 years in the Fox Valley this season and putting the milestone to work. Owner Jordan Arellano is expanding the company’s hardscape division for the 2026 outdoor living season, adding crew capacity for paver patios, retaining walls, walkways, and outdoor living builds across St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, South Elgin, Glen Ellyn, Elburn, and Naperville. The spring schedule opened April 15 and is filling the way it usually does once the ground thaws and homeowners walk into the back yard and decide this is the year.
Arellano Landscaping has built steadily since 2012, starting as a one-truck lawn care operation in St. Charles and growing into a full landscaping and hardscaping company that carries its own crews through the whole build. The hardscape push for 2026 is a response to where the calls are coming from. Fox Valley homeowners are asking for paver patios with built-in seat walls, fire pit surrounds, walkway-to-driveway flow that works with older lots, and retaining walls that actually solve the drainage problems on the slope instead of hiding them for a season. The hardscape service page at https://arellano-landscapes.com/hardscape/ lays out the paver, wall, and outdoor living work the expanded division is taking on. A dedicated retaining walls page for the St. Charles market is live at https://arellano-landscapes.com/chicago/st-charles/retaining-walls/, and the main site at https://arellano-landscapes.com/ carries the full landscaping, lawn care, hardscaping, tree service, snow removal, and concrete service lineup.
The anniversary hook matters for one practical reason. Fourteen years in the Fox Valley is long enough that the company is now going back to properties it first touched a decade ago. Lawns Arellano installed in 2014 are being upgraded with the paver patios that the same homeowners are asking for now. Retaining walls that were built when kids were in grade school are getting outdoor kitchens tied into them before those kids graduate. The expanded hardscape division is structured around that repeat-customer pattern, with returning clients getting first slots on the 2026 schedule and new builds booked against the remaining calendar through the fall.
For the 2026 season, Arellano is taking on paver patio projects from basic 200-square-foot installations to multi-level outdoor living builds, retaining walls from garden-height border walls to full structural walls with engineered base and drainage, and concrete work that ties the patio to the driveway without a visible seam. The crew runs its own equipment, handles its own grading, and does not sub out the hardscape portion, which is unusual in the market and is part of why the same homeowners keep calling back. For projects in Geneva and Batavia, the published SAPs on the site give residents a direct read on what Arellano handles in their specific market.
“Fourteen years feels like a long time until you look at the first patio we ever built and realize those homeowners are still calling us,” said owner Jordan Arellano. “We added crew for 2026 because folks want bigger projects, paver patios with seat walls, retaining walls that actually hold the hill, outdoor kitchens that work in an Illinois winter. We’re the same family company we were in 2012. We just have more guys who can build what you’re picturing in your backyard.”
About Arellano Landscaping
Arellano Landscaping is a St. Charles-based landscaping and hardscaping company founded by Jordan Arellano in 2012. The company provides landscaping, lawn care, retaining walls, outdoor living builds, concrete work, tree service, snow removal, paver patios, and hardscape services in St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, South Elgin, Glen Ellyn, Elburn, and Naperville.
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Jordan Arellano
Arellano Landscaping
36W948 Sunrise Ln, St. Charles, IL 60174
Phone: (630) 402-7001
Email: arellano.landscaping01@gmail.com
Website: https://arellano-landscapes.com/
