How To Create A Unique Irrigation System Blends With Landscape --
One of the most important specialties offered by Exterior Worlds is the creation of unique irrigation systems that maintain the aesthetic and functionality of the Houston landscape from behind the scenes. By definition, a unique irrigation system is a system that is designed in such a manner that it maximizes control of the landscape. It breaks up areas of the yard into smaller pieces, known as zones, and allows the homeowner to control the amount of water specific plant materials receive.
One might assume that a climate as wet as we see here in the Houston landscape would not need irrigation systems at all. Such a point of view is far from the truth. Natural rain water does not fall in a predictable cycle. This is because the driving forces behind the weather patterns of the Houston landscape are warm southerly winds blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico and sporadic blasts of cold air coming down the Great Plains from the Canadian Arctic.
Learn How To Make A Small Yard Look Larger --
In many parts of the Houston landscape, you find places where beautiful and very stately homes are situated on relatively small tracts of land. These small yards often appear disproportionate to the magnitude of the home.
In order to correct this, Exterior Worlds has developed a number of ways to make small yards appear larger and more proportional to residential landscape design. This, in turn, makes the entire property look more attractive because open, outdoor living space suddenly takes on a sense of equal proportion to interior indoor living space.
Learn How To Unify Your Home and Garden Design --
To unify your house and garden design, we have to treat these two different elements as components of a greater aesthetic unity. The key to doing this is to capture the feeling that your home architecture emanates and then extend that feeling into the gardens that surround it. We take a great deal of time looking at your home, and we ask you questions as well to gain an understanding of how YOU feel when you look at your house, and how you want to feel when you finally see your new Houston landscaping plan take form before your eyes.
It takes decades of professional experience to learn how to do this. Many companies that call themselves landscapers are really yard and garden maintenance companies. Professional Houston landscaping is something completely different. It is all built around the certain knowledge that the house is the most important element on the landscape, almost like a hub around which a wheel of hardscapes, trees, flowering ground covers, evergreen plants, and various types of gardens revolve.
How To Update Landscape Design Elements --
Both softscape and hardscape elements of the Houston landscape will need updating from time to time. The cycles of updating, of course, differ significantly. Sometimes there is an obvious need to make changes in a landscape that no longer seems to fit the times. On other occasions, a major change in lifestyle or new direction in life generates an interest in new forms and outdoor environments.
A landscape is normally upgraded when the ownership of a property changes hands. The obvious need to put a personal touch on the new residence motivates a desire for a change in scenes. There are many different elements of the Houston landscape that often need improvement at such a time.
Houston Landscaping with Boulders Walls Adds Curb Appeal --
Boulder walls can be used as retaining walls in Houston landscaping projects where a steep slope is present in the back yard. We see this in many homes that border the city’s bayous. Often, sloped areas in the yard are subject to such erosion that they are practically unusable until a retaining wall is constructed.
A wall that is made out of boulders is the least expensive form of retaining wall to build for two reasons. First, the fieldstone boulders that are used in its construction cost much less than quarried, finished stone. They can also be stacked to heights of up to four feet without the additional cost of building a compacted base.
The professional landscaping services offered by Houston’s Exterior Worlds are a complex and interrelated blend of traditional landscape architecture special design methodologies that specifically address the many subtle nuances and oft unnoticed eccentricities of our deceptively simple Houston terrain. Our ultimate intention in creating these forms is to put cash value back into the yard, improving the opportunities for resale return on investment and creating a sustainable, superior living environment in the meantime of the present moment. The genius of our design services is to engineer and construct top-level functionality in the working mechanisms we devise; then make them disappear quietly behind the backdrop of Houston gardens and superior home architecture.
