Landscape Design Ideas Adelaide Homeowners Can Adopt with Their Garden Renovation.
If you’re planning to renovate your backyard or front garden and have some landscaping ideas but aren’t sure how everything can be constructed so the outdoor living spaces are practical and aesthetically pleasing, experienced licensed landscapers from Visual Landscape Gardening can help.
Know Your Budget
Know Your BudgetThe first place to start is to know your budget limit. Knowing what you’re comfortable to spend is critical when working out what materials such as pavers, type of retaining wall construction, plants garden features and lighting can be included.
Visual Landscape Garden have a proud history of coming up with landscape design solutions for people, completed within their budget to create garden makeovers that not only look stunning but are functional.
Regardless of whether you have a large, small or courtyard flat or severely sloping block, looking at landscaping your backyard or front garden, after a formal or more informal look, seek something that is low maintenance, the following landscape design ideas Adelaide homeowners can adopt with pictures should help to get your creative juices flowing.
Do I need plans drawn up?
The simple answer is no.
Many landscape designers will charge you upwards of $4,000 for a set of hardscape and softscape plans, which could be better spent on elements for your garden makeover.
Visual Landscape Gardening won’t be producing plans, because they’re not required to quote on garden features or amounts of materials such as paving or retaining wall blocks.
Instead, with our expertise as licensed landscapers, we help you work out what will look good and work, listening to your wishes as well as offering years of experience.
The garden makeover comes together as a collaboration between you and us, as we work together to completion.
Once you have a budget, list the garden features or design elements you’d like to include.
You may like a pool, pond or water feature, an area to sit and relax with a fire pit, a private area with outdoor spa, separate to where you’d like to entertain undercover with friends, or perhaps you’d like to have a space for children to play.
Planning for who will be using the different outdoor living areas and for what purpose is also useful to pass on to Visual Landscape Gardening, the expert landscapers Adelaide residents have used for over 30 years.
Landscape Design Ideas for Backyards
The backyard has always been a sanctuary, a private place to relax and unwind with the family, or to entertain with friends, but in recent years there has been an increased interest in backyard renovations, with more people looking at a complete makeover.
Many with larger back gardens look at having distinct areas that cater to the needs of different family members, adult relaxing vs children’s play. Some areas can provide a space the whole family can come together, swimming pools are an example of this, as are undercover entertaining areas with an outdoor kitchen, table and chairs.
For those who have smaller outdoor spaces or courtyard gardens, perhaps occupied by working or retired couples with no children, here are two landscape design ideas with spas and entertaining areas to catch up with friends.
Remember every situation is unique. The success of a landscaping project should be measured not only with aesthetics, how it looks, but also by how practical or functional the space becomes so that it matches your lifestyle.
Landscape Design Ideas for Front Yard
Typically the front yard is not an outdoor space that gets as much use as the backyard. Access to the garage and house with street appeal round off what is commonly requested. Low maintenance front gardens are popular for this reason, with river pebbles and artificial grass high on the list. For those that prefer plenty of greenery, slow growing plants and natives maintained with an automatic irrigation system can be constructed.
Streetscape is an important consideration because it adds value to your property. While you may have no immediate plans to sell, having a tidy frontage will pay dividends for when that day arrives.
Landscape Design Ideas for Sloping Blocks
There are basically two ways of handling a sloping block. You can work with the sloping terrain, or if creating level areas is important, you can incorporate retaining walls.
Whether a majestic entrance is called for, with a large frontage to landscape or you have a courtyard design that needs to modern and low maintenance, experienced licensed landscapers from Visual Landscape Gardening can help you with practical ideas to make your dream garden a reality.
Tight access landscaping is a specialty, even when there is no practical path from the front. Pools, outdoor spas, large amounts of pavers and retaining wall blocks, even substantial sized plants can be craned in.
Landscape Design Ideas Around Pools
Swimming pools are an extremely popular garden element, made even more popular these days with the number of smaller ‘splash’ or ‘lap’ pools that cater to smaller gardens, courtyards or even for those wanting all the benefits a pool offers but also would like additional elements included within the backyard.
Paving around pools is very low maintenance compared to having a hardwood timber deck, but decking can be constructed using a relatively new composite material that eliminates the need for staining and re-staining every 6 months.
This is an example of where sharing your budget is important when making ‘material’ decisions. Pavers and decking material vary significantly in price and depending on the slope of your garden and what preparation is required, excavation and retaining wall costs could be significant.
Decking is sometimes a cheaper option with sloping blocks because you can create level areas over the top of the slope without the need for leveling and retaining.
Even though less maintenance is required with pavers compared to a timber deck, some paver maintenance such as sealing will be required to keep them looking great for many years to come and to help prevent stains from accidents and nature.
Before considering having a swimming pool, discuss your wishes with Visual Landscape Gardening who have more than 30 years’ experience and an extensive portfolio of landscape design ideas Adelaide residents have relied on to transform their garden into an oasis of practical splendour.
Request A Free Landscaping Quote Or Construction Consultation with Quote.
At Visual Landscape Gardening, we offer 2 options.
We’re more than happy to supply a written, no-obligation quote if you know what work you’d like done.
Typically, we’ll take about 15 minutes to measure everything up.If you feel you need longer than 15 minutes to discuss your options and seek ideas and advice, we do offer a ‘Design Ideas for Construction’ consultation service for $220.00 (incl. GST) which covers one hour to discuss your requirements in detail (no plans are supplied).
We understand many people don’t know what the costs are likely to be for all the different aspects of landscaping, which is why quotes are requested.
Why Your Budget Is Important
Everyone does however have a maximum amount they’re prepared to pay for the landscaping works.
To know what your maximum budget is, helps us put together a range of options and product alternatives within your budget that can then be discussed with you when we meet.
The price for paving an area for example can vary dramatically depending on what paver is used.
Small format concrete pavers are significantly cheaper than large format natural stone pavers.
The same can be said for retaining walls and fencing.
Plants can be 5-10 times more expensive depending on their size.
Knowing what you’re comfortable spending, ‘helps us help you’ by quoting on, then delivering a project you’re going to be delighted with and importantly within your budget.
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