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Make Stone Steps From Fieldstone Boulders
Stone steps come in all styles. Essentially their role is to get you from one level to another. In good landscape design, how stone steps look is as important as how they function. Frankly, that should be the case of every element in a well-designed landscape. When we speak of the function for steps, it’s important to [...]
Continue reading...How Conduit Can Save You Time And Money
22. August 2010
Conduit could be any device or material that allows something else to pass through it. In landscape contracting we’re most commonly using conduits made of PVC, but poly pipe (polyethylene) can work well too. The rigid, Sch. 40 PVC pipe shown in this picture is most often used for electrical wire - like THHN conductor wire [...]
Continue reading...Cherry Laurel – A Useful, Attractive, Reliable Broadleaf
31. July 2010
Cherry Laurel is one of those functional plants that does what it’s supposed to and looks good while it’s doing it. How often we look at a situation and think, “I just need a mounded-form plant that’s nice and full; that I can rely on.” (It sounds like what a plant would request with a dating [...]
Continue reading...Landscape Plantings Marry House To Site
25. June 2010
Have I gone too far with this metaphor? Two of the functions of good planting design that work together to marry the house to the site are: to complement the home to have the home appear integrated (connected) to its surroundings There are certainly other functions accomplished by good planting design, like creating spaces, directing views and traffic, screening, [...]
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30. August 2010
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