Most homeowners enjoy having a beautifully landscaped and maintained yard, but many either lack the talent to achieve this themselves or they have a green thumb but a lacking the time to accomplish it themselves. Fortunately, there are professionals who not only make their living by making other people’s yards objects of beauty – they enjoy doing so.
Landscape Companies often have on staff landscape professionals such as architects and designers. Landscape architects tend to focus on planning, designing, and constructing large projects such as parks, recreation areas, nature preserves, airports, and college campuses for example. Others specialize in the reclamation of defunct mines or disposal landfills. A landscape designer, on the other hand, is an individual that is often a combination garden designer and landscape architect. Landscape designers create design plans either by hand or by using CAD programs.
By utilizing the services of a landscape designer from a company such as The Design and Build Group, a homeowner is assured that the appropriate plants, shrubs and trees for their geographical location will be chosen. They will be given a estimated cost for the project, and the landscape designer will be present during the installation process. Once the work is finished, the landscape designer will instruct the homeowner in the proper care of the plantings.
Landscaping Companies are skilled at creating and installing landscape features such as koi ponds, waterfalls, and many other types of water features. They can rectify issues such as poor or no drainage through the installation of French drains or culverts. Erosion problems can be handled by installing sod or planting ground covers.
The Design and Build Group provides other beneficial services like delivering and spreading mulch, maintenance such as spring cleanup of landscape and garden beds, and pruning shrubs and trimming tree limbs. Building decks and designing and constructing patios, walkways, and retaining walls are also possible. A home with lovely landscaping that blends seamlessly with the surroundings is not only a pleasure to everyone’s eye, but increases property value and boosts its curb appeal. A landscape designer is akin to a painter — turning the blank canvas that is one’s yard into a unique masterpiece to be enjoyed for generations to follow.
