Here are some handy tips to help you strike a balance between your home’s landscape and your hardscape. Source: Houzz
It’s not uncommon for hardscaping to clash with foliage, grass, and shrubbery. The following are some secrets to creating peace between the hardscaping and landscaping that will make it easier for you to create a peaceful environment around your home.
- Go formal. Formal designs are rigid and planned. By taking this approach, you’ll protect the delicate balance between the hard and soft elements.
- Use repetition and rhythm. By creating patterns with repetitive spacing of identical plants and foliage along walkways, patios, etc., you create a sense of comfort that is reliable and visually appealing.
- Allow landscaping to encroach on hardscaping. By allowing plants to grow over the edges of sidewalks and patios, you soften the demarcation and in the process blend the two together.
- Vary your foliage. A little more complex, this approach uses vastly different foliage and shrub sizes to draw attention away from the hardscape. This is a highly effective approach when the hardscaping is also varied to include stones, boulders, concrete, and other more mundane materials.
Creating harmonious hardscaping is our specialty at Triad Associates, Inc., and we invite you to contact us to start the process of creating peace and quiet on your property.
