How to Enhance Your Home or Business

with a Professional Landscape Design

Earth Wood & Flowers Landscaping knows that a home's landscape design contributes dramatically to it's appearance. When well done, the landscape creates a setting for the home that complements and enhances the architecture.

An ordinary-looking home can be made eye-catching. A grand, imposing structure will be anchored to it's surroundings with an equally impressive landscape.

A well-designed landscape is a permanent capitol improvement in your home. It contributes not only to the aesthetics of your home or business, as does the interior decor, but also to it's value, which it's furnishings do not.

In addition to it's other benefits, a well-designed, well-executed, and well-maintained landscape can add anywhere from 10% - 40% to a property's value, according to real estate appraisers and nurserymen.

As skilled professional landscape designers Earth Wood & Flowers Landscaping also understands how to select and position plants and paved areas to create a beautiful and functional landscape that enhances a home or business.

Professional landscapers understand how to arrange and integrate the softscape (plant materials & water features) and the hardscape (paved areas, wood fences, retaining walls, and other wood structures) into a pleasing and functional design.

A good landscape design makes access to the various parts of the house and outdoor living spaces, easy.

The design considers where people will walk and locates walkways for routes most commonly traveled. Walks lead to all entrances, but the design also makes it evident which is the main entrance.

The landscape plan will provide adequate parking for your family and guests, and allow for easy maneuvering of cars.

You don't want your property to look like a parking lot, so skillful design of these areas becomes an important consideration.

A professional design can increase your outdoor living space by creating private places for relaxing and entertaining, providing you and your family with a place to enjoy the outdoors.

Landscaping also improves both the indoor and the outdoor climates by moderating the sun and wind. A screen of tall evergreens, such as hemlocks or pines, can can be located to block street nosies, to trap dirt, and to provide privacy.

Deciduous trees such as oaks and maples, can be positioned to shade and cool the house in summer but let in warming sun in winter. Evergreen hedges positioned on the north and west sides of a house will slow winter winds, lowering heating costs.

In just the way a person's clothing can flatter the figure, so to can landscaping be used to flatter a house.

A well-designed landscape can make a house or businesses property seem larger or smaller, as desired.

For instance, a house or business landscaped with towering trees will look smaller than it actually is, but the same house or business flanked by trees only slightly taller than the roof gains in stature.

If you want to enjoy your property to it's fullest, professional landscaping can create outdoor spaces that fulfill many of the same basic needs as the rooms in your house.

The landscape design can create separate areas for relaxation, recreation, entertaining, cooking, dining, and even storage in as pleasant and comfortable an environment as possible.

Earth Wood & Flowers Landscaping professional landscapers in Dayton, Ohio. Serving Dayton and all it's many surrounding communities, would be happy to talk with you and answer any of your landscaping questions.