Welcome to Our Landscape Services page we offer from complete Landscape Design services, Landscape Consultation as well as help with proper plant selection and placement in your yard. We offer many theme gardens these include, Tropical, Water Features and Xeriscape/Low Water Use Landscaping.

We offer the following services:

Landscape Renovations:

Because many people “inherit” a landscape when they purchase an existing home. The landscape that came with the house might not always meet the functional and aesthetic needs of the new homeowner. Or, a home owner might just tire of the landscape they currently have opting instead for something newer, more modern, more environmentally friendly, or something that just requires less maintenance. Our staff not only works with the landscaping needs of a newly built home, but we also specialize in the renovation of an existing yard. If your existing landscape is overgrown, dated, or just getting to difficult to maintain, call us or e-mail us today to discuss how we can transform your landscaped property.

Landscape Consultation:

These services are offered to help you evaluate your existing landscape, we offer of onsite landscape consultation and analysis for plant placement, landscape irrigation and maintenance needs. We also offer simple advice on your existing plants and their needed care including; pruning, irrigation and fertilizing. These services are provide for our clients that do not need a complete landscape design plan.

Landscape Design Services:

This service includes a landscape consultation and site analysis of your yard. The site analysis includes; a preliminary landscape design for your review/consultation to fully determine their wants and needs. This then leads to the creation of simple working plan for review and evaluation by the landscape designer and the customer and from this we complete simplified landscape plan for your review. Then after a final review the completed final landscape working plan will be created and presented to our customers. This working a plan is design for use for bidding and contracting out the actual installation services, which our company does not offer at this time.

In order to help you understand the process of landscape design we have included the follow infomation on the principles of landscape design. This is to help you understand all that is involved in the design process. By offering you this information we hope that you will have a better understanding the nature of the design process. This is to help you become more involved it the process of recreating and design your yard.

The Principles of Landscape Design

• Unity should be one of your main goals in your design. It may be better understood and applied as consistency and repetition. Repetition creates unity by repeating alike elements like plants, plant groups, or decor throughout the landscape. Consistency creates unity in the sense that some or all of the different elements of the landscape fit together to create a whole.

  Unity can be achieved by the consistency of character of elements in the design. By character, I mean the height, size, texture, color schemes, etc. of different elements.

  A good example would be in the use of landscaping rocks and accent boulders. If you've ever seen a landscape design that had one large white round boulder here and another large red square granite boulder there and so on, then you've seen that unity wasn't created by this particular element.

  This is just one example but the principle applies to all other elements such as groups of plants and materials.

  A simple way to create unity in your landscape is by creating themes. And one of the simplest ways to create themes is by using a little garden decor. Creating a theme garden is easier when it's related to something you're interested in or have a passion for.

  If you're into butterflies for instance, you could create a theme using plants that attract butterflies as well as using statues, ornaments, and other decor that are related to butterflies.

  Unity should be expressed through at least one element in your landscape and preferably more. Using elements to express a main idea through consistent style and a specific theme is what creates harmony.

• Simplicity is actually one of the principles in design and art. It's one of the best guidelines you can follow as a beginner or do it yourselfer. Just keep things simple to begin with. You can do more later.

  Simplicity in planting, for instance, would be to pick two or three colors and repeat them throughout the garden or landscape. Keeping decor to a minimum and within a specific theme as well as keeping hardscapes such as boulders consistent is also practicing simplicity.

• Balance in design is just as the word implies. A sense of equality. There are basically two types of balance in landscape design. Symmetrical and Asymmetrical.

  Symmetrical balance is where there are more or less equally spaced matching elements of the garden design. With a garden equally divided, both sides could share all or part of the same shape, form, plant height, plant groupings, colors, bed shapes, theme, etc.

  You may remember creating something like this when you were a kid in art class at school. Where you take a piece of paper, splash paint on it, fold it in half, unfold it, and then it magically creates an interesting symmetrical design. So symmetrical balance or design is somewhat of a mirror image or reflection.

  Asymmetrical balance on the other hand is one of the principles of landscape design that's a little more complex. While textures, forms, colors, etc. may remain constant to create some unity, shapes and hardscapes may be more random. This form of balance often has separate or different themes with each having an equal but different type of attraction.

  Asymmetrical may be better understood as actually being unbalanced, abstract, or free form while still creating unity and balance through the repetition of some elements.

  A good example of this would be where bed shapes or paths differ on both sides of the landscape dividing line while still sharing some of the same elements and plants. One side could be curved with a sense of flow while the other side is straight, direct, hard, and completely opposite. Again, unity and balance will be created through other elements.

  Contrast can be very interesting and this type of form can create a neat contrast. Flowing lines are pleasing to the eye but the bold contrast of a curve combined with a straight line can be very interesting.

  Asymmetrical balance isn't dependant on the shape of your garden. It can be but generally it's not.

  An example might be where one side of the garden is mostly large shade trees while the other side is predominately a lower growing flower garden or even a mix of both examples. Like I stated earlier, the landscaping can be abstract while still maintaining unity through other elements such as rocks, plants, and decor.

  Contrast and harmony can also be achieved using plants. Fine foliage verses coarser foliage, round leaves verses spiked leaves as well as color compliments and contrasts.

  Plant height, color, and texture may be varied from one area to the next but each area should stay consistent within its own theme.

  You'll hear me talk about "themes" a lot. Many successful landscape designs follow a basic theme to achieve most of the principles of landscape design described on this page. The proper use of plants (see plant selection) or garden decor or a mix of both is a simple way to achieve themes.

• Color adds the dimension of real life and interest to the landscape. Bright colors like reds, yellows and oranges seem to advance toward you and can actually make an object seem closer to you. Cool colors like greens, blues, and pastels seem to move away from you and can make an object seem farther from you.

  Grays, blacks, and whites are considered neutral colors and are best used in the background with bright colors in the foreground. However, to increase depth in a landscape, you can use dark and coarse textured plants in the foreground and use fine textured and light colored plants in the background.

  Colors can also be used to direct your attention to a specific area of the garden. A bright display among cooler colors would naturally catch the eye.

• Natural transition can be applied to avoid radical or abrupt changes in your landscape design. Transition is basically gradual change. It can best be illustrated in terms of plant height or color but can also be applied to all elements in the landscape including but not limited to textures, foliage shape or size, and the size and shape of different elements. In other words, transition can be achieved by the gradual, ascending or descending, arrangement of different elements with varying textures, forms, colors, or sizes.

  An example of a good transition would be a stair step effect from large trees to medium trees to shrubs to bedding plants. This example is where a little knowledge of proper plant selection would come in handy. Click here for help in choosing the right plant selection for your yard.

  Transition is one of the principles of landscape design that can be used to "create illusions" in the landscape. For example a transition from taller to shorter plants can give a sense of depth and distance (like in a painting), making the garden seem larger than it really is. A transition from shorter to taller plants could be used to frame a focal point to make it stand out and seem closer than it really is.

• Line is of the more structural principles of landscape design. It can mostly be related to the way beds, walkways, and entryways move and flow.

  Straight lines are forceful and direct while curvy lines have a more natural, gentle, flowing effect.

• Proportion simply refers to the size of elements in relation to each other. Of all the principles of landscape design, this one is quite obvious but still requires a little thought and planning. Most of the elements in landscape design can be intentionally planned to meet the proper proportions.

  For instance if you are creating a small courtyard garden, an enormous seven foot garden statue placed in the center would be way out of proportion and a little tacky to say the least. Or a small four foot waterfall and pond placed in the center of a large open yard would get lost in the expanse.

  Don't misunderstand this to mean that if you have a large yard you can't have smaller features or garden decor. Proportion is relative and elements can be scaled to fit by creating different rooms in the garden. The goal is to create a pleasing relationship among the three dimensions of length, breadth, and depth or height.

  A small water feature can be proportionate if placed in a corner or on the edge of a large area and becomes a focal point of the larger area while creating its own distinct atmosphere. An entire room, sitting area, or theme can be created around it. Other rooms and themes can be created as well. See small gardens for ideas on creating rooms and creating illusions.

  Also, special consideration and study should be given to proper plant selection to avoid using plants that are out of proportion.

• Repetition is directly related to unity. Its good to have a variety of elements and forms in the garden but repeating these elements gives variety expression.

  Unity is achieved by repeating objects or elements that are alike. Too many unrelated objects can make the garden look cluttered and unplanned.

  There's a fine line here. It's possible that too much of one element can make a garden or landscape feel uninteresting, boring and monotonous.

  However, unity can still be created by using several different elements repeatedly. This in turn keeps the garden interesting.

We hope this information variable and it has provided you with enough basic information to help you become involved in the design of your landscaping, as our customers needs are important to us, please continue to browse our site to find the information you need to make your landscape dreams come true.