Garden Island Landscaping – Say Goodbye To Monotonous Yards
You might be forced to swerve around them when driving through shopping center parking lots, but many people are adding garden island landscaping to their yards and driveways to dress up their exterior living space. While most are built level with the surrounding ground, some are built up to stand above the rest of the landscape to provide a centerpiece for their outdoor decorations.
With garden island landscaping, small walls are built, usually beginning blow grade level and then walls ranging in size from one to four feet are constructed with flowers or other plants put in to offset the appearance of the yard. They can also be used as dividers between different parts of the lawn to separate the diversity of your personal landscaping design. In some instances, a plot of land is raised above the adjacent lawn areas and grass planted simply to create a additional focus area of the lawn.
There are also garden island landscaping designs that do not begin below grade, however a small trench is dug in the ground to create the shape of the garden and then the earth is mounded to the desired height. Any dirt that washes away during rain or during construction is captured by the surrounding trench, keeping it from washing back onto the rest of the yard.
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