Design, build & weekly care
Carrascalinho, Aljezur
A wild Mediterranean garden with a natural swimming pond, meadow planting and stone paths. Designed, built and cared for by Raízes.
Aljezur · Western Algarve
Gardens shaped by a landscape architect. Cared for every week.
Raízes designs, builds and maintains gardens across the western Algarve. One professional team, one clear plan, and weekly photo updates in your own client portal.
Architect-led
Fully insured crew
Weekly photo updates
Why Raízes
Not just a gardening crew. A design practice that stays with your garden.
Most gardens are designed once and then left to whoever cuts the grass. With Raízes, the person who understands the design is the one who manages its care.
Managed by a landscape architect
Every garden is overseen by a qualified landscape architect, so care decisions follow the design.
Local experience
We know the western Algarve: the Atlantic wind, salt air, dry summers and the plants that thrive here.
Professional, fully insured crew
A trained, uniformed team with full work insurance. You never have to worry about who is in your garden.
Your own client portal
Project updates and photos from every maintenance visit, in one private place. Ideal if you live abroad.
Selected projects
Gardens we designed, built, and still care for.
Before
After
Garden care programmes
Choose the rhythm your garden needs.
Every plan includes a supervised, insured crew and photo updates in your client portal after each visit.
Regular care
Twice a month
A steady rhythm for established gardens that need to stay neat, healthy and watered right.
- 2 visits a month
- Pruning, weeding and tidy-up
- Irrigation check
- Photo report after every visit
Complete careOur signature plan
Weekly
For gardens that should always look their best, whether you are home or away.
- 4 visits a month
- Full seasonal care, planting and pruning
- Irrigation monitoring and repairs
- Weekly photos in your client portal
- Seasonal review with the landscape architect
One-time
Full crew day
The whole team for a day. Perfect before the season, after the winter, or before guests arrive.
- Full crew, one intensive day
- Clearing, heavy pruning, green waste removal
- Before and after photos
- A good first step before a care plan
Client portal
See your garden every week, from anywhere.
Each client gets a private portal. After every visit the crew uploads photos and notes, and project work is tracked step by step. No chasing, no guessing.
Weekly photos of the maintenance work, visit by visit.
Project updates for design and build work, from plan to planting.
Notes from the team: what was done and what comes next.
Latest visitWeekly care · Tuesday
Completed
Olive trees shaped, lavender cut back, two drippers replaced on the south bed.
Previous visit · photos & notes12 photos
Terrace planting · projectIn progress
How we start with a new garden
01
Garden visit
We walk the garden with you, look at soil, plants, water and what you want from the space.
02
A clear care plan
You get a tailored plan and the right programme: twice a month, weekly, or a crew day to begin.
03
Care you can see
Your portal opens and the updates start arriving after every visit.
About us
Rooted here, by choice.
Raízes is Barak and Tamar.
Barak is a landscape architect. In Israel he worked with city councils and private landscape offices, designing public spaces and gardens of every scale.
Almost ten years ago we moved to Portugal’s west coast. We fell in love with this land: the wind, the long dry summers, the plants that already know how to live with both. Slowly, that love became our work.
We start with what’s already there. We read the land first, then strengthen what it needs and bring out what it gives. For us, a garden isn’t a job. It’s a living place that grows with the people who live in it.
BarakLandscape architect, design and build
TamarEverything around the work: clients, crew and care
Now welcoming new gardens
Your garden, rooted in care.
Tell us a little about your garden and we will arrange a visit. We reply in English or Portuguese.