Garden design, pool construction, irrigation, and full-property care for private villas across Pacifico, Altos del Cacique, Hermosa, and the Papagayo coast.
"A Costa Rican garden is a living organism — salt air, volcanic soil, a sun that forgives nothing. Left unattended, paradise reclaims itself in weeks. We don't visit your property. We steward it."
Almaka Garden is a specialist firm in the design, construction, and year-round maintenance of private tropical estates along Costa Rica's Pacific coast. We partner with villa owners, property managers, and architects to deliver landscapes that look as composed in year ten as they did on handover day — and to keep the equipment behind them running at resort standard. From a single weekly visit to full-estate stewardship, every engagement is handled by a crew trained to the standards of the region's five-star hospitality properties.
Scheduled care that keeps mature planting, lawns, hedges, and palms in resort-standard condition — pruning, fertilization, pest and disease management, seasonal renewals, and debris management through green and dry seasons.
Weekly water chemistry, filtration and circulation servicing, tile and surface care, plus full diagnostic and repair of pumps, filters, heaters, chlorinators, salt cells, and automation systems — for every major brand found on the coast.
Concrete pools engineered for Guanacaste's climate and soil. Infinity edges, plunge pools, spa integrations, tropical naturalistic designs — built with rebar, shotcrete, and finishes specified for salt air and year-round UV exposure.
Sale, installation, and servicing of residential pressurized water systems — booster pumps, hydropneumatic tanks, pressure controllers — sized to your home's demand and the realities of the local supply.
Whole-house water softeners and sediment filtration engineered for the region's hard, mineral-heavy water. Protects fixtures, appliances, tile, and the longevity of every fitting in the home.
Zoned, pressure-compensated drip and rotor systems with smart controllers. Designed for water economy through the dry season, diagnosed and repaired when systems — ours or inherited — fall out of calibration.
Site-specific garden design grounded in what actually thrives here — native and climate-adapted species, heliconia, bougainvillea, bromeliads, palms, flowering hedges, ornamental grasses. We plan for the ten-year view, not the handover photograph.
We live on this coast. We know which ficus varieties collapse in the dry season, which pool pumps survive the salt, and which irrigation brands the local supply chain can actually service. That knowledge is baked into every decision.
Gardens, pools, water systems, and irrigation are managed by a single coordinated crew under one point of contact. No subcontractor finger-pointing. No "that isn't our scope."
Scheduled visits run to published timetables. Issues are reported with photographs before they become problems. Your villa receives the same discipline as the properties at Papagayo — because many of our clients come from those properties.
A visit to your property and a conversation about how you use it, who manages it, and what it should look like in five years.
A written proposal with scope, schedule, materials, and transparent pricing. No verbal quotes.
For new work: full design and material specification. For maintenance: crew assignment and scheduled calendar.
Work completed by our own team, with photo documentation and a single point of contact for every question.
Ongoing care, reporting, and the kind of anticipatory service that catches the problem before you do.
A visit to your property and a conversation about how you use it, who manages it, and what it should look like in five years.
A written proposal with scope, schedule, materials, and transparent pricing. No verbal quotes.
For new work: full design and material specification. For maintenance: crew assignment and scheduled calendar.
Work completed by our own team, with photo documentation and a single point of contact for every question.
Ongoing care, reporting, and the kind of anticipatory service that catches the problem before you do.
"We bought in Altos del Cacique four years ago and went through three different gardeners before we found Diego and his team. The difference was obvious inside a month — the ficus hedges are finally the shape they should be, the pool pump hasn't tripped once since they re-plumbed it, and I get a WhatsApp photo after every visit. That alone is worth the fee."
"I manage eleven villas in Hermosa Heights and Mar Vista. Almaka is the only garden and pool company I no longer have to chase. They run their own schedule, they flag issues before the owners notice, and their paperwork is in order. For anyone in property management on this coast — just hire them."
"They rebuilt our irrigation from scratch after the previous installer left us with flooded beds on one side of the house and dead crotons on the other. Zones, pressure regulation, a proper controller — all of it done properly. Our water bill dropped, and the garden finally looks like the one we saw in the listing photos."
"Our pool had been losing prime every few days and the previous company kept replacing parts. Almaka found a cracked suction line under the deck within an hour. Fixed properly, stayed fixed. Honest diagnostics — rarer than you'd think down here."
"El equipo de Almaka ha transformado nuestro jardín por completo. Diego entiende las plantas de la zona — cuáles aguantan el verano, cuáles necesitan sombra — y el resultado habla por sí solo. Servicio puntual, profesional y bilingüe."
"We run our home as a vacation rental when we're not in residence, so presentation matters every single week. Almaka delivers that consistency. I've referred them to four neighbors. All four stayed."
If your villa is on the Gulf of Papagayo, we're within reach.
Tell us about your property. We'll visit, listen, and send a written proposal within five business days.