Sometimes people think that landscaping a small yard won’t be worth the investment because they see the spatial limitations as an impossible obstacle. They fear they won’t be able to do anything meaningful with a small or oddly shaped lot. In this article, we’re going to present two example small yard landscaping projects that will […]
Expand Your Living Space with Outdoor Rooms
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Landscaping with Stone Enhances Outdoor Environments
When talking about landscaping and gardens, it helps to view the overall design as two parts that make up a whole composition. First, we can look at the ways landscape designers use artful groupings of trees, shrubs, flowering plants and grasses to create living compositions. The greenscape is the dynamic part of the composition because […]