Saturday, June 7, 2014

By Sally Delacruz


When planning and designing landscape features whether softscapes or hardscapes, you need to ensure, you come up with functional, beautiful, and sustainable landscapes. Working closely with landscaping contractors in Palo Alto CA can help in designing a sustainable landscape. It is not about placing plants, flowers, and trees within your gardens and yards but how the various vegetation will complement the beauty while also serving the purpose of conserving water and protecting a building.

The plants you put on soils should be examined properly so that they meet their nutritional needs. This will require studying the soils and determining their properties. While you may be interested in planting specific type of grass, flowers, shrubs, and trees, some of them may not be able to survive in that environment.

You have to get everything correct from the soil profiles, the nutritional needs, as well as the watering needs. Moreover, the vegetation can be planted in such as way that it complements each other in both watering and nutritional needs. If you have trees, flowers, and grass that have same nutritional needs and soil types, they can be planted in the same location.

Plants will need water and if you are allowing all surfaces water to run off down the streams, it might be costing you unnecessarily in watering the vegetation. Tall trees planted down slopes could help in holding the soils firm as well as allowing water to seep down. The contractor examines the landscape needs and devices a plan that will see you have these features while also protecting your home and getting the aesthetic value of your property.

Surfaces that are exposed to direct sunlight start fading away. The sofas, blinds, curtains, and other items that are exposed to sunlight will fade with time and look unsightly. Planting trees to block the sunrays before they reach the interior of the house can help prevent such damages. Another thing, which needs to be emphasized is watering needs of plants.

The curtains, blinders, and the furniture need to be protected with shades from the tall plants. By planting trees on the direction of sunshine, it will help you prevent those rays. Most of the rays penetrate to further ends in buildings during the early hours after sunrise and late in the evening. In the afternoon, the roofing structure provides protection for the sunrays heating the surface from above.

Besides, plants can be used to protect your building from things like ultraviolet rays and strong winds. The wind flow can help you determine where the tall trees that have a canopy able to break the strong winds should be planted. Raging winds can cause damages on building by tearing the roofing structures apart or blowing objects, which break the glasses.

Some trees can have roots that are as long as three times the size of the plant. This gives a hint on how far the roots can strength. In order to have sustainable landscapes, the plants and vegetation maintenance should be practiced properly while minimizing use of chemicals and pesticides that add toxins to the environment.




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