Landscaping Design on the Main Line

April 17, 2014
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Aardweg Landscaping Receives Best of Houzz 2014 Award

We’ve got news to share! 2014 started out with a bang when in early February Aardweg Landscaping was awarded the Best of Houzz 2014 Award for Customer Satisfaction in Landscape Design and Architecture. According to the Houzz website, “Each year, our community of homeowners and home design enthusiasts recognizes the home building, remodeling and design professionals delivering the best customer experience and the most inspiring and innovative designs.” With more 5-star reviews than any other Philadelphia area landscape design and installation business, Aardweg Landscaping is honored to receive the award. We see it as an endorsement of the sentiments expressed in the many wonderful compliments and testimonials we’ve received from clients over the years.

Houzz Reviews Say it All!
The Houzz client reviews and testimonials reflect appreciation for the manner in which we perform our work. A testimonial from August of 2013 highlights the investment of time and attention to detail we bring to every project, “We highly recommend Steve Aardweg of Aardweg Landscaping. From start to finish, Steve was highly professional and produced great work. We were very impressed with the time and energy Steve put into our initial consultation, including preparing designs for our front and side yards, explaining the various options for plants/flowers/shrubs, modifying the designs to our specifications, and incorporating our requests for irrigation and lighting.”

The Houzz Platform
Aardweg Landscaping began publishing content on Houzz in early 2013. Exclusively featuring home remodeling and design products and services, Houzz is an unparalleled online social media image-based platform providing consumers with the latest design inspiration for home improvements they are planning to complete. Houzz users add 10,000 to 15,000 images to the site per day. No other platform comes close to the magnitude, convenience and quality of the Houzz platform. Offering design inspiration, project recommendations, product information and professional reviews, Houzz gives consumers everything they need to make their home improvement dreams come true.

Aardweg Landscaping Serves the Main Line Philadelphia Area
Aardweg Landscaping has been serving customers for more than 35 years throughout the Philadelphia Main Line. Providing excellent service from the beginning of the project to the end is our goal at Aardweg Landscaping. In fact, we often maintain communication with our clients as we perform ongoing maintenance services, additional landscape design services, or simply check back periodically to verify that plants remain healthy and clients remain happy.

Aardweg Landscaping has benefited from the Houzz platform and enjoyed participating in this venue, now as a Best of Houzz 2014 Award recipient in Customer Satisfaction in Landscape Design and Architecture. Thank you to all of our clients for so graciously and diligently reviewing Aardweg Landscaping and giving us this strong vote of confidence, most with 5 stars across the board! For more information, visit the Aardweg Landscaping website or contact us by telephone at 610.355.0703.

One of the best ways to keep up with Aardweg Landscaping is to follow us on our social media sites – Facebook, Houzz, YouTube, and Twitter.

December 11, 2013
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Nighttime Curb Appeal for Your Main Line Philadelphia Home

Landscape lighting design is one of those areas in which it could be said, the sky is the limit! Many companies are investing research and development dollars in lighting design. They are incorporating new lighting concepts into outdoor living areas, stair and railing products, hardscaping, and even paving materials — with LED lighting embedded in walkways.

Are you interested in adding landscape lighting to your Main Line Philadelphia home in order to enhance the nighttime curb appeal or to spruce up your property prior to placing it on the real estate market for sale? Consider path lighting, up lighting, and down lighting; for safety and ambiance:

Path Lighting: Path lighting is typically made up of small light fixtures that are placed along the edge of a walkway, driveway, or any other circulation route running through your property. With many styles to choose from, you can select a style that complements both your landscape design and your home architectural style. Adding both a safety feature and enhancing the ambiance of your home – path lighting will dramatically light up your property.

Up Lighting: Up lighting traditionally involves spotlighting landscape and architectural features found on your property. For example, you might set a spotlight to light up a beautiful large tree or tall landscaped garden area. Multiple spotlights can be utilized to create symmetry on the front of a home to feature forms surrounding entrance areas.

Down Lighting: Down lighting encompasses a wide variety of lighting fixture types, including wall and pole mounted fixtures that shed light on entrance areas, walkways, landscaped gardens and architectural features.

: Wall Mounted Light Fixture

: Pole Mounted Light Fixture

: Pathway Lighting

: Wall Mounted Lighting at Entrance

: Architectural Lighting

: Pathway Lighting

Our professionally trained landscape design and installation personnel, under the direction of Steve Aardweg, APLD, will provide the superior service, attention to detail and design inspiration you require to add nighttime curb appeal for your Main Line Philadelphia home. Acquire the garden lighting design that suits your needs and matches your preferences! For more information about Aardweg Landscaping, send us an email or contact us by telephone at 610-355-0703.

See Aardweg Landscaping images and videos on YouTube and Houzz!

Images via sxc.hu, morguefile.com, Wikimedia Commons, and Aardweg Landscaping

November 30, 2013
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Aardweg Landscaping on Popular Social Media – Facebook, Houzz, YouTube and Twitter

When it comes to keeping up with the latest trends in landscape design, look to Aardweg Landscaping for inspiration and ideas. One of the best ways you can keep up with our company is by following us on our social media sites — Facebook, Houzz, YouTube, and Twitter.

Houzz Portfolio
Have you had the pleasure of visiting the website Houzz? Houzz is a web site that highlights images and articles about architecture, interior design, decorating, landscape design, and home improvement. It’s a site where landscape designers and home improvement contractors show off some of their best work. As such, you’ll be able to keep up with the projects Aardweg Landscaping has completed in addition to finding inspiration for your own garden. Follow us on Houzz to see some of our past projects, including formal gardens and cutting gardens that highlight Main Line architecture perfectly.

Facebook
Be sure to check out our Facebook page to see photos and enjoy regular posts with images and information about our work. Facebook is a great image-based social networking website that allows us to share our latest photos and design tips, along with information about Aardweg Landscaping. Add your comments to photos to let us know what you think about the landscaping images or the topic of the day.

YouTube
Perhaps seeing videos of past work is more to your liking. If so, you’ll enjoy browsing through the collection of Aardweg Landscaping videos on YouTube. View gorgeous perennial gardens or simply see how different Main Line gardens look in the various seasons by watching some of our videos. In doing so, you’ll get a better idea as to how hardscaping features will blend with the particular plants you have chosen for your garden. In order to ensure you are aware of new videos as they become available, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Twitter
Perhaps you’d like to keep up with Main Line landscaping information or the latest developments with our company, day to day. If so, you can easily do that by following us on Twitter. Become a follower so that you will never miss out on updates. You can even see photographs of some current projects, find links to blog posts, or gather ideas for your own garden.

Aardweg Landscaping wants to make it easy for people just like you to keep up with their Main Line landscaping work, which is why they are active on a number of social media platforms. After visiting these Aardweg Landscaping pages, feel free to contact us for a consultation by telephone at (610) 355-0703.

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November 25, 2013
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Photographic Image Design Lets You Design Your Spring Garden Now

If you’re like a lot of people, it’s hard to visualize your landscape ideas by looking at sketches. For this reason, Aardweg Landscaping offers what is known as photographic image design in order to show you what a proposed design will look like so that you can achieve exactly the look you’re after.

What is Photographic Image Design?
Photographic image design involves taking a picture of your landscape, and then using a computer program to “add in” certain plants and hardscaping features. After that, you’ll be able to see what the finished result will look like once all the plants you choose are fully mature. This can save you a great deal of regret later, and also makes it easier for you to “tweak” your plan in order to come up with something that suits your needs precisely.

The Benefits of Photo Imaging
There are a number of benefits to using photographic image design to help bring your landscaping ideas to life, including:

Aardweg Landscaping Main Line Philadelphia 3D Image Design Before

Before 3D Photographic Image Design

Allows you to modify the design by simply adding or removing certain features
Provides a realistic portrait of the finished design
Allows for flexibility in case you later come up with new landscaping ideas and want to change some aspects of your design
Eliminates the need to look at sketches, which can sometimes be difficult to read for those who are unfamiliar with them.

The Aardweg Landscaping Process
Photographic image design begins with pictures of your property in its current state. After taking these pictures, a member of our design team will sit down with you and discuss some of your landscaping ideas in order to get an idea as to what your goals are. After that, our landscape design professional will come up with a proposed plan, and will then add computer images of certain plants to your photograph in order to give you an idea as to how your garden will look when it is finished.

Dozens of other Main Line landscape design customers have used our reasonably priced photographic imaging to help bring their own landscaping ideas to life. Contact us today by telephone at 610.355.0703 to find out more about this service, or to schedule an appointment for a consultation.

Don’t miss Aardweg Landscaping images and videos on Houzz and YouTube!

November 21, 2013
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Beautiful Main Line Gardens Featured by Aardweg Landscaping on YouTube

Have you seen any of our dozen Aardweg Landscaping videos on YouTube? Here’s a recap of three of them with links to each video:

Aardweg Landscaping’s YouTube video entitled, “Landscape Design: Perennial Garden for Main Line Landscaping” shows you how you can experience season after season splendor with perennial gardens at your Main Line residence. Perennial gardens are a favorite because they provide long-lasting beauty, yet are relatively easy to care for. For plenty of color, choose several varieties of daisy along with some ornamental grasses to provide a variety of textures that will attract birds and butterflies.

English Cutting Garden Featuring Many Colorful Perennials

Aardweg Landscaping can help you create just the right landscape design to make your garden truly pop. As this video shows, a perennial garden is appropriate almost anywhere in the residential landscape, and can include a variety of plants that will enhance the look of the space while also adding value to your property.

The second YouTube video is entitled, “Main Line Landscaping : Perennial Garden and Foundation Planting In Mid Summer.” You may be wondering how a perennial garden will look at the height of its glory. If so, view the video in order to see some Main Line Philadelphia Landscaping in the heart of summer. Note how the shrubs and ground cover give the garden a cool and relaxed feeling, while the blossoming flowers add a touch of color that complements the other plant specimens without being overwhelming.

A recent Better Homes and Gardens article highlights 20 of the top perennials popular with residential gardeners in 2013. It features gorgeous images of easy-growing perennial flowers that are just right for any garden. The article highlights the perennial moss phlox, and says,

“Perfect for rock gardens, alongside paved areas, the front of raised perennial gardens, or as a ground cover on a slope, moss phlox forms a dense, creeping mat up to 6 inches high and 2 feet wide. The small leaves are slightly prickly, and the entire plant is covered with fragrant white, pink, blue, lavender, or red flowers in spring.”

Finally, perhaps you want your landscape to have a softer look. If so, watch this Aardweg video to get a better idea as to how different plants and shrubs can be combined with natural stone or other hardscaping features to create a very natural and informal garden that will be a pleasure to relax in during any season. These videos show only a small sample of the work we have performed over the years. To see more examples of our work, please visit our Aardweg Landscaping website. After that, please contact us for more information or to schedule an appointment for a consultation.

When it comes to Main Line Philadelphia landscaping, with 35 years of landscaping design experience in the Tri-State region, it’s hard to find a company that has more experience than Aardweg Landscaping. Offering everything from hardscapes and outdoor rooms to landscape maintenance, our professional team will help you have a magnificent garden that will be the envy of everyone who visits. Contact us today by telephone at 610.355.0703 for more information.

Enjoy the work of Aardweg Landscaping on Houzz and YouTube.

Don’t miss the 2013 Longwood Christmas celebration, running from November 28, 2013 to January 12, 2014. Outdoor Christmas lights come on at 3:30 pm every day!

October 30, 2013
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New Outdoor Living Space Adds Value to Your Main Line Home

Backyard Pool & Landscaped Garden Design Perfect for a Main Line Residence

One of the more popular home trends in recent years is the expansion of the outdoor living area, including hardscaping, landscaping, and an outdoor kitchen. As home prices dropped, and the inventory of homes on the real estate market decreased, homeowners have begun to invest in their current homes in anticipation of selling when home prices increase. Therefore, the development of the outdoor living area has become fashionable.

One remaining question for the homeowner considering an outdoor living area as a remodeling project is determining whether or not it will provide a good return on investment when the home sells. Professional quality landscaping and hardscaping has long been considered as a good investment—an investment that will increase the resale value of your property.

Better Homes & Gardens says, “…5-15 percent is only a rough guideline based on averages. Generally, more expensive homes have greater potential to increase in value from a well-designed and well-installed landscape. Remember that hardscape features…such as pavers, stone walls, decks, and patios — are part of the landscape investment.”

Consider the following incentives for adding an outdoor living space:

Good ROI: An outdoor living space will increase the resale value of a home. Like most remodeling and renovation projects, it rarely returns 100% of your investment; but the enhancement of the home improves the overall quality, environment and curb appeal.
Entertainment Value: An outdoor living area expands the into our space to the outdoors, providing multiple opportunities for family recreation and entertainment. A covered and partially enclosed outdoor kitchen with a fireplace enables social engagement practically year round.
Relaxation: Spending time outdoors in a pleasant environment, with family and friends promises reduced stress, and opportunities to relax without leaving home.

Image from Aardweg Landscaping Portfolio

A master landscape design plan will coordinate everything including existing circulation paths, decks and patios, landscaped gardens, an outdoor kitchen, a covered eating area, a pool or water feature, a fireplace or fire pit, seating areas and much more. Aardweg Landscaping meets with the homeowner and performs a survey of the property initially to begin the design phase of the work. Working together with the homeowner, Steve Aardweg evaluates your design program, basic terrain features of the property, and existing plant life in order to establish a plan.

Aardweg Landscaping is one of Main Line Philadelphia’s leading landscaping companies. We will assist you in planning, installing, and maintaining an outdoor living area that is perfectly suited to your unique preferences, lifestyle and home. Be sure to view our online portfolio to see examples of our work. Contact us to get started developing your Main Line landscaped garden plan, by telephone at 610.355.0703.

Check out examples of the work of Aardweg Landscaping on Houzz and YouTube.