Everybody loves pro tips. You feel like you suddenly have an edge — the elusive secrets that will make your neighbors gawk in envy at your sheer wizardry.
When it comes to landscape lighting design, you want all the pro tips you can get. This isn’t really a job for newbies.
Here’s your crash course in landscape lighting design bright ideas.
They wouldn’t name a grass “Celebration” if it was a dud, right?
Why is this variety of Bermuda Grass worth celebrating?
It depends on your needs — and your willingness to maintain it.
Is Celebration Bermuda sod right for you?
Let’s take a look.
You wouldn’t think a driveway would be the centerpiece of a stunning Orlando landscaping design.
How great can a driveway be, right?
At this Spanish Colonial home in an Orlando gated community, a paver driveway made all the difference.
Pondering pavers?
A new driveway, maybe, or an impressive new paver patio?
Welcome to the world of paver patterns.
It’s a bigger world than you think.
There’s a reason professional landscape designers get college degrees.
Man, there’s a lot of stuff to keep in mind.
When Orlando landscape designers study landscape design, they learn about mass, form, line, texture, and color. Then they combine these elements to transform your yard.
Sounds kind of fancy. But it’s why your new paver patio could have such graceful lines. It’s why your yard could be filled with plants with a variety of intriguing colors and textures.
If your back is killing you, you’re in charge of watching five toddlers, and it’s 97 degrees, laying sod is hard.
If you’re 20, there’s a cool breeze, and you have a whole weekend ahead of you with nothing to do, laying sod isn’t as hard.
You see what we’re getting at here. The concept of “hard” is pretty subjective.
Parts of DIY sod installation are hard, like wrestling with the sod cutter machine you need to remove your old grass.
It doesn’t take an engineering genius to figure out why paver patio and driveway drainage can be a challenge.
You take away grass, which is permeable, and replace it with concrete pavers, which aren’t permeable.
When it rains, the water has to go somewhere, right?
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Uh oh. A constant, steady dripping usually means something’s wrong at your house.
Leaky faucet, maybe, or a leaky roof.
Not this time. When you have a drip irrigation system, a steady drip means your plants are getting watered perfectly, with no wasted water.
No need for your tool box.
What exactly is drip irrigation? Is it right for your landscaping?
Here’s what you need to know.
We’ll be honest here — Bahiagrass isn’t usually a first choice for a residential lawn.
It’s a mix of grass types that can also include wild grasses and weeds.
We can’t guarantee the quality, because high quality isn’t exactly its claim to fame.
It can even be full of fire ants.
But Bahiagrass has some qualities you might like, if you’re the no-maintenance type, don’t want to fuss with irrigation, and are fine with a wilder, pasture-like look.
Is Bahia sod right for you?
Let’s take a closer look.
Let’s tackle the obvious question first: “Do I need landscape lighting?”
You absolutely do. (Even if you’re not afraid of the dark.)
Consider these reasons:
More questions? Let’s get to them.