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LANDSCAPE DESIGN & INSTALLATION
Your outdoor living area is an extension of your home. Partner with one of our landscape designers to create YOUR little bit of heaven outside! Whether you would like to renovate your existing landscape or create a custom design for your new home, our design team will blend your dreams with their expertise.
Custom Garden Landscape boasts some of the most talented local landscape designers with a vast knowledge of:
Outdoor Living Spaces: to entertain guests and enjoy family.
Hardscaping: for the patios, retaining walls, and sidewalks you use every day.
Water Features: set a relaxing tone for your lifestyle.
Fire Pits for an exciting summer get-together or a cozy fall night.
Irrigation and Sprinkler Design: creating effective watering plans for your individual landscape.
Landscape Lighting: to provide security and aesthetic value to your home.
DIGITAL IMAGERY LANDSCAPE DESIGN
So you can get a better idea of what the finished landscape project will look like, we take photographs of your existing landscape. We then overlay realistic digital renderings of the various design features including plants, lawns, walkways, patios, and other construction features. For many homeowners this provides a better visual than the traditional flat landscaping design plans.
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
Why let your homes unique assets fade into the NIGHTTIME darkness?
Landscape lighting is more than just light fixtures placed in your flower beds. It is an artful design and placement that creates a dramatic look and feel to your property. The addition of Landscape lighting into your landscape design offers a number of benefits.
INCREASED SECURITY
Installing landscape lighting strategically around your home will illuminate dark corners and shadowed areas. This increases security around your property.
ENHANCED STYLE AND AESTHETIC APPEAL
Lighting can be used to highlight certain architectural features of your home or other elements in your landscaping. Incorporating landscape lighting throughout your landscaping will add drama and enhance the look of your landscaping in the evening hours.
INCREASED USABILITY
Adding lighting around a patio, pool, hot tub, deck or outdoor kitchen will illuminate the space and allow you to use your outdoor spaces into the evening hours.
IMPROVED SAFETY
Poorly lit walkways, patios, and decks can be dangerous for you and your guests. Adding landscape lighting that will illuminate walkways and other commonly traveled areas will help to prevent injuries and accidents.
OUTDOOR LIGHTING
Ponds and Water features are becoming more and more popular. From pond less waterfalls to all kinds of water features can enhance your home’s landscape and increase it’s value.
A water feature in your backyard not only adds to the overall look of the yard but also extends the amount of time you spend enjoying it. Turn your backyard into a tranquil paradise
PONDLESS WATERFALLS
Pondless Waterfalls are great for customers who don’t want a pond. Pondless waterfalls feature an underground basin that catches the water and sends it through a filter and back up to the waterfall again. This recirculating stream gives the illusion that the water starts from atop the waterfall and comes down into the earth. All the beauty of a waterfall without the presence of the pond. This is a great option for anyone who loves the idea of a waterfall in their backyard but isn’t sure about the time required to maintain one. Also those families with young children won’t have worry about them playing to close because there is no danger of falling into a pond.
PONDS, WATERFALLS & WATER FEATURES
WHAT IS HARDSCAPING?
When it comes to landscape design, there are plants and there are hardscape elements. The hardscape refers to anything that isn’t living and planted in the ground. Structures like driveways, walkways, patios, walls are examples of hardscape.
Curb appeal is everything, your landscape is the first thing people see. Why not make that first impression a lasting one?
When planning the look of your home one of the most important things to consider are walkways, driveways and patios. With a wide variety of materials and colors available the choices are endless. Weather you are looking for a formal walkway or a garden path, our design experts can create the perfect look for your property.
HARDSCAPE DESIGN & INSTALLATION
Many people say convenience is the biggest advantage of an automatic sprinkler system since they don’t have to spend their time hand watering or lugging the hose around the yard. An automatic sprinkler system will also conserve water and save you money. A custom-designed in-ground automatic lawn sprinkler system will guarantee that your landscaping will receive regular watering even while you are away. Your landscaping is a substantial investment and an automatic irrigation system protects that investment by growing healthier plants and lawns. An in-ground irrigation system adds to the value of your home and enhances the beauty and curb appeal of your property.
AUTOMATIC LAWN SPRINKLERS
SITE PREPARATION & EXCAVATING
Getting the proper grade for your landscape project is crucial. It is your foundation for years to follow. Poor grading of the ground around the foundation of your home can lead to standing water and eventually dry rot. Custom Garden Landscaping knows how to correct these problems and we have the equipment to do it too! Grading is usually the first item to address on a project.
This is the time to evaluate drainage, soil conditions, and elevations for walls or steps.
The site needs to be clear of weeds, rock, and debris.
Landscape grading adds a gentle slope to your land to encourage proper drainage and add beauty using the contours of your property.
If your landscaping is improperly graded, it can lead to standing water that can be dangerous to your property for a variety of reasons. Whenever water collects around your house, it can cause your plants to become over watered, your yard to be damaged and a breeding ground for mosquitoes. If too close to your foundation or crawl space, standing water can cause structure damage that may or may not be readily apparent. Furthermore, standing water is an ideal place for insects and other undesirable pests to breed.
DRAINAGE SOLUTIONS
FRENCH DRAINS
French drains are typically used close to a home where you do not have the ability to grade the property. They can cover a long area. French drains are a quick way to remove water away from the structure.
SWELLS
Swells are used out doors in the landscape in areas that have hills. Instead of having a hillside slide down when there is a heavy rain, a swell is installed and the swell redirects and helps remove the water to help prevent erosion control.
UNDERGROUND DRAINS
Under Ground Drains are a series of drain pipes that are underground with the surrounding dirt and grass graded to grates that will catch and remove the water. Grates come in different sizes and shapes. They even come in different colors to help them blend in with the surrounding terrain.
