Design
Landscaping Virginia and Phoenix Home Service want to make your ideal landscape a reality. Building a beautiful yard will take time and planning. Landscaping Virginia outlined an easy to use guide to designing a beautiful Northern Virginia landscape. Together, Landscaping Virginia will help walk you through the steps needed to create the yard of your dreams. The first step in designing a first class landscaping project is for your contractor. To work with the Northern Virginia home owner to outline their needs, ideas, and budget. Your designer needs to look at factors of your yard such as sun direction, soil type, topography, and areas of the yard you want to work on.
The design process of any landscaping project should start by measuring your lot or using a plat plan you provide to your estimator. Phoenix Home Services will start out by recommending solutions to any drainage issues your property may have. When a blue print of drainage problems have been addressed and solved we will work on the second step of your landscaping plan. The second step in any landscaping project is to design the hardscape elements of the project which may include a patio, pathways, walkways, retaining walls, raised beds, gazebos, trellis, fences, garden arbors and pergolas. Phoenix Home Services is the largest hardscape contractor in Northern Virginia and has dozens of master masons that can create some of the most beautiful flagstone, brick, and natural stone projects in the northern Virginia area. We also have at our service a host of experienced carpenters that can design build any type of gazebos, decks, pergolas, or garden arbors.
After you and your designer have settled on the hardscape elements of your landscaping master plan some thought needs to be planned into installing electrical conduit for outdoor lighting. The next step is to add a pond or water feature to your design. Phoenix Home services will then start grading your lot to tie in the new hardscape features to the developing softscaping elements of your project. This will require testing the soil to make sure the pH balance of the soil is within the normal range. The best type of soil for planting in Northern Virginia is slightly acidic with a pH of 5.5 to 6.5. I f your home has very alkaline soil our experts will add agricultural lime to change the pH levels. In many parts o f Northern Virginia clay and marine clay soil conditions are found and these soil need to be modified to promote plant growth by adding sand or organic material. After your soil and pH have been improved top soil will be brought into the project for final grading. The next step is in designing your landscaping project is tree placement.
Northern Virginia has a climate zone from 6 to zone 7, these needs to be taken into consideration in tree selection there are two main types of trees evergreens and deciduous trees. A well planed landscaping project should incorporate about 30% evergreen trees so your yard does not look like barren waste in the winter. Some trees that are popular in Northern Virginia include Oak, Maple, Japanese maple, along with many fruit bearing trees. After the larger trees have been placed into your master plan your landscaping contractor will then plan the shrubs that will be needed to take your project to the next level. After all shrubs have been placed and installed many different flowers can be planted to bring out the full color to your plan. After your Planting is installed Phoenix home Services will then install river rock, and mulch along with new sod to finish off your project.
Phoenix Home Services is a full service Landscaping contractor serving the counties of Fairfax County, Arlington County, Prince William County, And Loudoun County VA> Including the cities of Annandale Alexandria,Aldie, Ashburn,Broadlands, Burke, Dale City, Chantilly, Centerville, Clifton, City, Falls Church, Fairfax, Fairfax Station, Fairfax City, Falls Church, Great Falls, Herndon, Mclean, Lorton,Lansdowne, Leesburg, Oakton, Oak Hill, Manassas, Lake Manassas, River Creek, Reston, Sterling, Sterling Park, Springfield, Stoneridge, South Riding, Viennia, and Woodbridge VA.