As the weather gets warmer in southeastern Pennsylvania, have you been looking at your front yard or backyard landscaping and dreaming up ideas for your Philadelphia area landscaped garden? A garden offers countless landscaping ideas and design possibilities that may sometimes leave you uncertain as to the best direction for your overall theme.

One of the more interesting landscaping enhancements that will lend a unique feel to your garden style is the addition of rocks and boulders. Rocks and boulders can be used practically to enhance the garden’s appearance and simultaneously solve drainage and storm water erosion problems, by adding a dry creek bed, or other type of drain. Using rocks and boulders in garden design also offers the following aesthetic advantages:

• Adds a natural look or feel of spontaneity to the garden, such as when used in a traditional Japanese Garden design
• Enables the garden designer to showcase a particular plant or tree
• Provides a unique backdrop for flowers, grass or other plants
• Boulder arrangements combine to form natural waterfalls when water is piped in to flow over the stone with a fountain or in a pond design

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There are certain aspects of designing with garden rocks and boulders that require careful consideration, such as stone size, color, quantity and placement. An interesting ehow.com article says, “You should address the use of large rocks and boulders as you would the outline of the garden itself: Let your imagination take charge.”

Care should be given taken to avoid overwhelming the available garden space.  The right placement, such as placing rocks and boulders individually or in clusters, is a design decision that is also determined by the garden size, style and design objectives.

Whether you are starting out with the aim of making your outdoor surroundings as attractive and unique as possible, or working to ensure that the new work in the garden is compatible with the feel of your current landscaped garden; Aardweg Landscaping is available to assist and guide you with the planning, designing and installation of  stones and boulders in your landscaping.

With over 35 years of experience designing and installing gardens in the greater Philadelphia area, Aardweg Landscaping provides expert landscaping services to Main Line Philadelphia residents in the Willistown Township, Easttown Township, Tredyffrin Township, Radnor Township, East Whiteland Township and Malvern Borough areas. Residents of Philadelphia’s Main Line, Southern New Jersey or Northern Delaware communities may avail themselves of the excellent landscape design and installation services available from Aardweg Landscaping.

Contact Aardweg Landscaping today by visiting the informative Aardweg Landscaping website, or by telephone at 610.355.0703. Aardweg Landscaping is one of a small number of landscape companies in the suburban Main Line Philadelphia area to have a landscape designer certified by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.

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