Does Your Garden Reflect Your Personal Paradise?

The landscaping of many North American front gardens for more than 100 years usually features a house with shrubs hugging the foundation, a walkway leading to the front door, and a sapling that may (or may not!) one day become a tree. Sometimes the front lawn features an island bed with shrubs and ground covers. Typically, the backyard consists of a patio (and/ or deck) and a lawn surrounded with perimeter beds of shrubs, one or two perennials and maybe some roses.

Yeah... not very interesting, is it?

Doesn't sound like paradise, does it?


Your home's landscape offers the opportunity to express yourself as though you were a landscape painter, by creating something beautiful from a "living canvas". But instead of paint, your media will be plants, stone, and perhaps brick, sculpture, and garden furniture.

Today's homeowners have access to an amazing palette of plants, and new improved hybrids are introduced yearly. The fun--and challenge-- is working out a combination of plants that serves specific design functions, looks beautiful together, and grows well in your region. You can then combine the plants, often call softscaping, with hardscaping elements (such as boulders, paths, patios and walls) to create an environment that makes you happy. In this process, you'll begin expressing your own vision of paradise-- a place of bliss, felicity, and delight.