Landscaping Design on the Main Line

July 30, 2012
by aardweglandscaping
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Privacy Fencing and Shrub Borders for Philadelphia Homes

Philadelphia Main Line homes sit on beautiful lots, and yours may be one of the most enjoyable rooms of your home. However, prying eyes from neighbors and passers by can make you feel like a spectacle on your own property. Creating a secluded oasis out of your yard or garden with traditional privacy fencing or living shrub borders is easy, and it protects you from intrusion as well as peering eyes. There are several landscaping ideas to consider when you wish to obscure the view from outside your land.

Traditional privacy fencing ranges greatly in both size and material to suit your existing landscaping ideas. You can choose a tall plank fence that completely conceals your yard, designed for maximum privacy. Another option is a shadow box fence, which offers the same privacy as a plank fence but which has offset slats to add visual appeal. Cottage fencing is shorter than these, standing between three to four feet. Classic picket fences, lattice and scalloped fences are popular cottage fencing options. You can choose from wood, iron and vinyl materials for any of these options.

Shrub hedges are a wonderful alternative to privacy fencing. Instead of a wall of foreign materials, you can put your natural landscaping ideas to work, creating a screen of flowers, grasses and shrubs. Beauty meets function in these gorgeous privacy beds, adding value to the price and enjoyment of your home.

Aardweg Landscaping has installed both traditional privacy fencing and natural shrub hedges for homes and businesses in the Philadelphia Main Line for more than 30 years. You can trust our team of professionals to listen to your landscaping ideas and build a solution to maximize the privacy of your yard while maintaining its beauty. Contact us for a consultation today.

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July 25, 2012
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Fountain Styles for Main Line Gardens

A boring yard can be instantly enhanced with a fountain, pond or other water feature. The sounds of running water are restorative and hypnotizing to many, and the inclusion of water to a landscape makes almost any outdoor space more appealing. Philadelphia Main Line garden ponds and water features are popular among many homeowners. Nestled among your plants, a water feature in your backyard or front lawn adds value and appeal to your property.

Fountains come in many styles. Self-contained fountains are typically sold as kits, which include all of the necessary equipment. Self-contained fountain pumps and plumbing are internal, as is the water source. They can much more easily be moved than traditional Philadelphia Main Line garden ponds and water features and can fit on your porch or patio. Traditional fountains typically require a reservoir, which may be visible in tiered fountains or hidden underground in pondless models. Alternately, traditional fountains can access to the water lines of your home or business; however, a reservoir in your fountain saves money on costs. Fountains can be installed on the ground in the middle of your lawn, within planting beds surrounding your property or even on walls, creating appeal at different heights and focal points throughout your outdoor space. A waterfall or spraying fountain is an attractive addition to your landscape pond and helps circulate the water.

When you are looking to integrate Philadelphia Main Line garden ponds and water features, it is important to work with a team of professional landscapers that can help you select the ideal style and size and install it properly. Ponds can be particularly difficult to correctly install, and a sloppy job can cause thousands of dollars of damage to your property.

Aardweg Landscaping has installed and serviced Philadelphia Main Line garden ponds and water features for more than 30 years. Contact our professional team of landscapers for the help you need in creating a beautiful garden water feature. We are proud to offer landscaping services to homes and businesses throughout the Main Line, including Haverford, Malvern, Media, Narberth, Paoli, Rosemont, St. Davids, and Philadelphia.

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July 20, 2012
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Hardscaping for Main Line Outdoor Living Spaces

You can enhance the beauty and functionality of your Main Line Philadelphia landscaping with hardscaping elements. Hardscape designs are permanent additions to your property, including walkways, decks, patios, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens, fire pits and ponds. If you plan to incorporate hardscape features on your property, it is important to have a vision. Consider your entire outdoor area, and create a design that includes any elements that you may wish to add, especially if your budget restricts you to one Main Line Philadelphia landscaping project now.

Be sure to consider both your personal style and the existing greenery when creating Main Line Philadelphia landscaping designs. The materials selected have a powerful impact on the appearance of your outdoor space and should compliment the existing building. Coordinate the elements of your hardscape with the interior and exterior features of your home to create continuity throughout the property. Modern hardscapes use sharp angles to create focal points, but curves create a graceful transition from landscape element to the next.

To ensure you create hardscapes with lasting structural integrity and beauty, work with professional landscapers who listen to your ideas and are in tune with your style. Aardweg Landscaping has created Main Line Philadelphia landscaping for more than 30 years and helped thousands of families and businesses, creating beautiful hardscapes from simple to elaborate. We proudly offer landscaping services to the entire region, including Ardmore, Bala Cynwyd, Berwyn, Bryn Mawr, Devon, Daylesford and Gladwyne.

Contact us to turn your hardscaping dreams into reality.

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July 16, 2012
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5 Top Backyard Landscaping Ideas for Main Line Philadelphia Homes

You can enhance the beauty of your Philadelphia Main Line backyard with thoughtful landscaping. With a plan in mind, you can turn a boring backyard into a beautiful destination, for your family to enjoy. Embrace the outdoors with the top five backyard landscaping ideas for 2012.

Sustainable Gardens

You may embrace environmental sustainability throughout your home, but the ecological and cost benefits can be carried outdoors. Sustainable gardens feature highly tolerant plants that require little maintenance. Your watering costs in the summer will decrease and your plants will heartily withstand harsh winter conditions.

Integrated Edibles

One of this year’s growing backyard landscaping ideas is saving space and creating an appealing, delicious landscape by featuring fruit and vegetables and herbal plants alongside flowers. Several beautiful varieties of edibles will enhance your backyard and fill your plate. With this type of garden, you must mind soil treatments as chemical products may render your harvest inedible.

Water Features

Water features are backyard landscape favorites and can be suited to any budget. Whether your yard features a simple self-contained fountain or an elaborate waterfall, the serene sound of running water turns your backyard into an instant oasis.

Outdoor Living

Create a permanent outdoor living space with fade-resistant acrylic fabrics, which give you greater comfort when you are outside and make your backyard a more inviting gathering place. A plush seating area under a lighted pergola or gazebo makes a perfect day and night destination for you and your family.

Buzzing Bees

Bee populations are on the decline because their natural habitats are threatened, but giving the harmless buzzers a new home is one of the most popular backyard landscaping ideas this year. Bees thrive in gardens with a variety of plants, so use least at 10 species of flowers to invite them into your garden to stay.

Whether you like these or have your own backyard landscaping ideas, the Aardweg Landscaping team can transform your backyard. We serve the Philadelphia Main Line, including Radnor Township, Tredyffrin Township, Easttown Township, East Whiteland Township, Malvern Borough, Willistown Township and Philadelphia. Contact us today to schedule a consultation.

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June 30, 2012
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Stone Retaining Wall Design for Main Line Function and Beauty

Of the many landscaping options available, stone retaining walls on steep slopes and hillsides offer some of the most interesting uses of landscape design. You may have an interest in using a stone retaining wall to create a beautiful multi-level garden, or perhaps the need for erosion control is the reason you are wondering which retaining wall design will work best for your property.

There are nearly as many different designs for stone retaining walls as there are different types of property. Perhaps your yard is relatively level in most areas, but a steep slope in one or two areas requires a wall to provide erosion control. On the other hand, your entire yard may be on a hillside and more than one retaining wall is needed. On the plus side, retaining walls offer landscaping options for perennial flowers and shrubs, as well as flowering vines that grow well on stone walls. You may even consider adding a water feature as part of your stone retaining wall to provide the soothing effects of running water.

Even though installing a stone retaining wall is quite labor intensive, the landscape design experts at Aardweg Landscaping have the capability to professionally install a stone retaining wall that will add beauty and function to your outdoor space for many years. There are many issues to consider in your retaining wall design and when the project is finished, you can feel confident that your retaining wall has been installed safely and correctly by our trained professionals.

If your property is in the Philadelphia area, on the Main Line, in Southern New Jersey, or in Northern Delaware, contact the professionals at Aardweg Landscaping for help in creating your own unique retaining wall design.

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June 25, 2012
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Landscaping Ideas for Year-Round Interest at Philadelphia Homes

Every homeowner who has worked hard to create a beautifully landscaped backdrop for their home understands the value of using flowers and shrubs that provide a continuous color palate in every season. This arrangement can be challenging to accomplish, but with careful planning and knowledge of the characteristics of many trees, shrubs and flowers, a beautiful four-season yard and landscape can be achieved.

After a long and bleak winter season, the homeowner wants nothing more than to see color around their home. There are several early blooming bushes and shrubs available to provide that color, and the forsythia is probably the earliest. Lilac bushes are not far behind, and everyone looks forward to enjoying the sweet perfume of their flowers. A consultation with the experts at Aardweg Landscaping will provide valuable landscaping ideas to help the homeowner create their own unique plan for spring flowering plants.

Before the spring flowering plants fade, the homeowner looks for summer plants to begin emerging. Peonies, roses and an abundance of early summer annuals help the home owner continue the color of their landscape display from early summer through the summer heat. Once again advice can be found by contacting Aardweg Landscaping for landscaping ideas to choose the best flowers and shrubs for their landscape design.

Fall colors in a landscape can be provided by the leaves of trees and shrubs that turn beautiful shades of red, gold and orange. Some perennial flowers such as mums, hibiscus and cone flowers also reserve their most abundant display for autumn. Some of these flowers are quite resistant to frost and continue to bloom a week or two after the first cold nights. Winter color is harder to find, but the red dogwood against evergreen trees with a backdrop of snow creates a striking display.

For landscaping ideas or advice on which plants and flowers to plant when, and to have an Aardweg Landscaping expert design and install a year-round garden that’s best suited to your property, call 610-655-0703, or complete our web Contact form.

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