If you dream of having a pool party but have no pool, a flooded backyard could actually work out for you.
Or if you want to start a home business training seals.
Otherwise, if your yard stays wet for days when it rains, that’s bad. Excess water can damage your home’s foundation, erode and crack sidewalks and your driveway.
You can see the end result in your mind — a fantastic yard brimming with tropical palms and drifts of vibrant flowers, a cozy patio for moonlight dinners, maybe a fire pit.
But how to get there?
There are several landscape design options, from doing it yourself to hiring a landscaping company to design and install it — and a couple of options in-between.
When you get a beautiful new sod lawn, it kind of seems like magic, right? Especially if you’re not home during the installation.
It’s like some sod fairies showed up, waved a couple wands, and woo hoo — instant lawn!
Not exactly.
Everybody loves a good shortcut, right?
But it doesn’t always work out.
Like that peanut butter and jelly swirled together in one jar. That just seems wrong.
Same thing with installing pavers over concrete. It sure sounds easier than jackhammering out your existing concrete, right?
Unless you’re an otter, you’ll probably spend more time on your pool patio than actually in the pool.
Is your pool patio design perfect?
Lots of pool patio areas aren’t very inviting. Patios with outdated concrete squares are pretty common in Florida. And not very exciting.
You can do a lot better than that.
When you need a yard drainage contractor at your house, you usually know it.
Your socks are wet. Ducks are your new pets. The neighbor kids are trying to swim in your driveway.
But who should you call? That’s trickier.
How long should sprinklers run in Florida?
Seems like a simple enough question, right?
Well, it isn’t.
Ask most any irrigation expert and you better have a pen and paper handy, plus a thermometer, a wind gauge, a calendar, a slide rule, and maybe your high school algebra book.
Or, stick with us. We’ll give you two ways to make your irrigation watering schedule pretty easy.
Sometimes being picky is a pain, like when your dinner guest will only eat tofu, bean sprouts, and imported water.
But sometimes being picky is a good thing, like when your landscaping company will only do business with the best, high-quality sod farms.
We admit it — we’re really picky about where we get our sod.
Unless you want to fill your yard with plastic plants (hmmm, there’s an idea) you’ll have some maintenance.
But some plants are happy with bare-bones care. Just make sure they don’t die of thirst, and they’ll happily show off pretty leaves and bright blooms while you spend your time relaxing instead of toiling in your yard.
Pondering a paver patio or driveway, but have some concerns?
Maybe you know a guy whose pavers started sinking.
Maybe your neighbor had a paver driveway installed but the color faded.
Worried about paver patio drainage? Tripping? Weeds sprouting in-between?