Custom Stone & Waterscapes - Calgary Landscape Design

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Calgary Landscape Design – A few things to consider when designing your Calgary Landscape

Well, You have a new home and you are trying to decide what to do with your yard?

You need to create a Landscape design for your Calgary home.

The climate in Calgary is extremely dry as we are classified semi dessert, and backyard landscapes should be designed knowing these types of things. You are going to want to plan a landscape that is low maintenance and has plants that are suited to the environment.

What does a low maintenance Landscape design in Calgary entail?

Well, for starters, you do not want to mow your lawn for 6 hours every week. That is quite the commitment and something that should be thought about before you design your new Calgary Landscape. Once the grass is installed and you are out there mowing it is too late.

There are many ways to mitigate the effect of lots of grass and add a tremendous amount of value to your yard at the same time.

Also, in it is important to design garden landscapes with plants that are hardy to the Calgary area. Last thing you want is a bunch of dead plants one year after planting.

It is okay to experiment with out of zone plants, but you want understand what each plant needs when designing your Calgary Landscape as well as what it will take to survive.

Questions we ask when Designing a Calgary Landscape include:

What is your style?

Visit other Calgary Landscapes in neighborhoods around town and see what kind of designs you like. That is the best way to understand your own design preferences, as it is hard to just put into words.

Focal Points?

Focal points such as that maple tree in the middle of your yard can be of great value to a landscape design.

Focal points do not have to be pre existing. We can create amazing focal points in our Landscapes Designs for the Calgary Area. Examples include that beautiful babbling brook that trickles smoothly through your garden, or a circular patio and firepit that is outlined by a row of columnar aspens.

Structure?

Focal points and other elements that are pre existing in the yard have to be taken into consideration when completing a Calgary Landscape Design.

We design smooth flowing yards to naturally incorporate all of these objects so that your yard truly becomes a work of art.

Other aspect such as harmony, balance, texture, colors, smells and form are extremely important and will be saved for another article.

Good luck with your Calgary Landscape Design. May your yard become the work of art that you always have imagined.