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vendredi 9 mai 2014

Driveway Landscaping Ideas

By Darren Hartley


Driveway landscaping consists of both hardscape and softscape. Hardscape options include walls and fences while softscape options include flower beds, ground covers, ornamental trees and shrubs.

The achievement of a great enhancement of driveway landscaping possibilities is a matter of the inclusion of walls in the plan. Walls can either parallel the driveway along its whole length or meet it at the entrance perpendicularly. The second solution opens up a number of additional driveway landscaping possibilities.

The attachment of driveway gates to the wall is one of these additional driveway landscaping ideas. A second idea would be spanning the opening in the wall with an arch. Practically endless are the variations in the softscape side of driveway landscaping.

A cheaper way of driveway landscaping is accenting the driveway entrance. This is particularly true when the budget is small while the driveway is large. What the purpose for the landscaping is, however, what the exercise is all about. It may be the creation of a grand driveway entrance, the running of the length of the driveway or both.

The primary considerations for a driveway landscaping project are where the gaze of the viewer is wanted to be drawn and what features of the property are wished to be emphasized, should budget not be a primary concern. Equally fitting both hardscape and softscape options are these considerations.

The dictate of driveway landscaping is to plant colourful annual beds along the sides of the driveway to draw the gaze of the viewer where it is wanted. Travelling from the driveway to its final destination would be the gaze. The final destination of the driveway is, of course, the property itself.

However, attention may not be wanted to be drawn if the destination of the driveway is an ordinary-looking garage, in plain view from the street. Likewise, driveway landscaping suggests not emphasizing the straightness of the driveway should the property be already dominated by straight lines, i.e., straight house walls, straight decking and the like. For such purpose, planting the edges of the driveway with straight flower beds will not do.




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