Lawn Design
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What to replace your lawn with?
It is daunting to figure out what to replace your lawn with. Since the front yard is hardly used by most people, that should be the first place to consider for replacement. But with what materials and plants should this be done? The first step should be to come up with a plan. Some professional help might be in order, such as a landscape designer or a landscape architect, because a well thought out plan determines the result of your lawn replacement project. But first, we need to consider different mix of options such as:
- Installing a pond.
- Installing a gazebo.
- Installing artificial grass.
- Mass planting of wildflowers.
- Lawn-like ornamental grasses.
- Low mass planting of evergreens.
- Patio / sitting area with pathways.
- Using ornamental boulders for accent.
- Flowering perennials low on the ground.
- Mass planting of small, medium and large sized shrubs.
- Shrinking the functional lawn size.
- Using organic mulch such as wood bark.
- Using inorganic ground cover such as river wash.
- Using lawn edger - plastic, metal, precast or wood.
The Soft Landscape Approach
Also known as softscape – dealing with the landscape aspect of all plants. The best plant material to use is native plants, that integrate and transition well with already existing plants in the surrounding lands. This understanding is important for those who live in the outskirts of urban areas, and have had their land cleared of native trees and undergrowth. Unless the land is in use, a return to the woods is an ecologically friendly and sustainable way to go. This can reduce water run-off and erosion that comes with it, and will return indigenous life to its rightful place in the greater scheme of things. The same applies to those that live in more urbanized areas, but on a smaller scale.
The Soft & Hard Landscape Approach
The term Hardscape applies to everything that touches landscape, but does not include plants. Hardscape materials can integrate well with Softscape material, and it clearly shows a human factor in the pursuit of an overall aesthetic appeal. One of the things Hardscape does, is harness nature and bring out the beneficial elements that appeal to people by using retaining walls, pathways, boulders, borders, mulches as accents and points of interest. Hardscape and Softscape exist as a means to help bridge the gap between artificiality and nature.
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