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Compliment your home 

Hardscaping is very popular in modern landscape designs and can compliment your home and coordinate with your plantings. Most homes today that are highly rated on curb appeal have at least two or three hardscaping elements incorporated into their design.

One popular design for backyard hardscaping is a courtyard. This is an example of how hardscaping can add additional outdoor living space, as well as luxury and convenience to your home.

When it comes to hardscaping as do it yourself projects, it is usually best to tackle jobs that are small and simple enough to do it a weekend, such as adding a walkway of rocks or a border of bricks. For a larger-scale job, a professional who specialized specifically in hardscaping can help you chose the right elements and materials that will work best with your climate, grading and the amount of durability that will be needed.         

Never heard of the term before but hardscaping

You may have never heard of the term before but hardscaping refers to the part of your landscaping that is non-living. This includes driveways, stone walkways, patios, and even wood decks. Concrete, stones, and bricks can also be a part of hardscaping. Also, fences, arbors, gazebos, and retaining walls can be considered part of your hardscaping. You can use boulders when designing your landscape projects and these would be considered hardscaping. Even the stones you use when building a koi pond in your yard are considered hardscaping.

Deciding on what kind of hardscape to use in your landscape will be up to you. It will depend on what kind of look or atmosphere you want your yard to have. You are only limited by your creativity and your pocketbook. You can use hardscapes to create many different themes to your yard. You can have an oriental theme with koi ponds and bonsai plants. You can create an ocean feel to your yard with loose stone or wood walkways. Then there is the wilderness or woodland feel you can bring to your yard. You can build a stone campfire, a wooden picnic table, or even use old barrels. The possibilities are endless.

Landscape Design

Let our experienced horticulturists work with you to design a landscape scene that will delight you.  Landscaping can do everything from small renovations to designing and installing residential or commercial landscaping. We have designed and installed formal English gardens, Japanese gardens and serene settings with the sounds of running water.