A Landscape Designer’s Guide To Turf Selection
Creating a stunning landscape in Adelaide demands a thoughtful approach. This guide will help you to select the ideal turf for your project, considering Adelaide’s climate, soil,
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It all starts with a clients wish for a better backyard or front garden. With overseas holidays no longer on the horizon, or not any time soon, it is understandable that many people want to bring a part of that dream destination to their own home. How many times have you said “wouldn’t it be great if we had… in our own backyard?” Perhaps now you’re ready to turn that dream into reality.
Residential landscape design focuses on the integrated master landscape planning of a house within the specific garden design of landscape elements and plants. Practical, aesthetic, horticultural, and environmental considerations are taken into account by landscape designers when producing both the hardscape design and softscape design plans. Bringing the overall garden design to life is always a collaboration with a number of contractors, especially landscapers.
Other specialists such as outdoor kitchen cabinet makers, pool or tennis court builders, painters, electricians and carpenters are some of the more commonly used trades that may become a part of turning the plan into a Living Picture.
Just like when building a new home, it all starts with a plan, or two!
Before Landscaping Work
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Often, environmental consequences have to be considered when changing the landscape of your outdoor areas, especially when there are competing land uses. When it rains for example, where will the water flow once the existing natural slope has been altered with retaining walls and paving.
This is one of the reasons where not engaging a trained landscape designer can end in tears. A quick sketch drawn by landscapers followed up with Fluro paint lines sprayed on the ground does not take into account the consequences of changing bench levels with water flow. A professionally drawn up hardscape design plan to scale does however, and will specify drainage and stormwater where required.
Gardeners often have an increased knowledge over home owners on how to care for many plants, how much water they need with how and when to prune them. Often however, as the saying goes ‘a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing’ especially if they’re the ones planning and placing plants to start with.
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After completion of both your hardscape construction plans and softscape design plans, you’ll also have a good idea of what the costs will be to transform your current garden into the dream outdoor oasis you’re after.
Whether you’d like a formal or informal design, whether you have a small or large front garden to renovate, a courtyard garden to update or large backyard you’d like to transform, you can trust Tony Stanton to come up with innovative garden design solutions to match your lifestyle.
People Also Ask
1. What's The Difference Between Formal And Informal Garden Design?
A formal garden is based on strict geometric shapes, whether circles, rectangles or squares and is rigid, clean and uncluttered. Many modern gardens are structured with formal shapes and the plants chosen to match, or are pruned in the case of hedges to make strong geometric shapes.
An informal garden is looser, not following rigid geometric shapes but rather follows curves with arrangements of features or elements, spaces and plants allowed to grow into their natural shape. Examples of this are found with many native garden designs. Water ponds made from rocks would fit here as opposed to a rectangular base with a fountain.
Note: wild garden designs are even more lose in their structure, often planted out in the Adelaide Hills to provide colour and interest amongst the Gum trees. This garden style relies also on more natural elements including rocks and fallen trees to separate areas or make visual statements. Rambling paths of mulch or pebbles, bordered with logs or sleepers are common, like you find constructed throughout the many National Parks across South Australia.
2. What Is The Difference Between Soft And Hard Landscaping?
Hard landscaping consists of the hard things you will have in your garden, like bricks, concrete, stone, gravel etc. As soft landscaping is the soft or living element of your garden, flowers, shrubs, grass, trees, soil, and anything growing in general.
3. What Do Landscape Design Plans Cost?
Creating a stunning landscape in Adelaide demands a thoughtful approach. This guide will help you to select the ideal turf for your project, considering Adelaide’s climate, soil,
Creating a beautiful and functional backyard space doesn't have to be a time-consuming or labour-intensive task. In fact, with the right approach, you can design a stunning outdoor
Are you looking to transform your outdoor space into a picturesque oasis through landscape design? If yes, then a reliable landscape designer can help you transform your landscape