Carefully planned, well designed, outdoor living rooms will feel like a natural extension of your home’s interior—only completely different. Outdoor rooms take the experience of indoor rooms to a different level. You enjoy total freedom to revel in all of your senses with no confining walls to constrain your imagination. By defining use areas as […]
Why High-end Lawn Care Services Are Worth the Investment
Lawn Care Services in Northern Virginia Green industry best practices have evolved over the past fifteen years in Northern Virginia. And, although basic lawn care techniques are much the same, the materials and equipment we use in landscape maintenance have changed. They are more effective and more environmentally friendly now. If you own a large […]
Benefits of Taking a Phased Approach to Your Landscaping Plans
An advantage of taking a phased approach to landscaping plans is that the scope of work, timeline, and cost structures can be divided into “bite-sized” segments that minimize the feeling of risk of going all in on a large multi-faceted landscape design project. Dividing a sizable project into parts and building it over an extended […]
How a Garden Designer Thinks
A garden is a living, ever-changing work of outdoor art. And the best garden designers are highly attuned to the fact that whatever they plant today is going to take on a life of its own tomorrow. Paying strict attention to technique allows a garden designer or landscape architect to create outdoor environments that look […]
Landscape Plans: Think Big, Start Small
Surrounds is known for designing and constructing large landscapes. But guess what? Many of those grand landscape plans were built out in phases over time—sometimes years. There are advantages to phasing large landscaping projects: If you start with a master landscape plan and make incremental improvements over time, you will be able to see which […]