There is nothing more magical than the changing of colors you see from summer into fall. The leaves, the plants, everything just transforms into warm brown, red, and golden colors. This season, make sure your home and lawn are filled with colorful plants, mums and decorum.
Mums are available in a variety of colors that encompass the true feeling of fall. There are two routes to take when planning your fall planting. Many people choose to work with a landscape designer to plan a color theme accordingly, while others choose to arrange mums in planters and leave them around the front of their home. Either way is a beautiful and easy way to add color around your home and be festive for fall.
Once your mums start to die in late fall, you know it is time to plant your spring bulbs. One of the biggest mistakes people make is forgetting to plant their bulbs in the fall. By November you should have your bulbs planted in order for them to be ready to bloom by springtime. While it’s hard to plan ahead for the spring season so soon, it’s something to really consider when it comes to your bulbs now. Once the winter season hits, you will be thankful to see your bulbs bloom at the first sign of spring. It brings hope and excitement that winter is passing, and that the warmer weather is arriving.
Working with a landscape designer professional will help you to plan accordingly, select the right mums and bulbs, choose the right colors to compliment the home and lawn, and create the largest impact possible with little cost. Whatever you choose to do with your home, there’s no better way to bring in the fall season than with rich colors and seasonal ornaments. With summer on its way out the door and fall arriving, it’s time to start thinking about apple picking, and pumpkin patches, cider, sweaters and leaves changing colors. Enjoy this beautiful season!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Visit Botanical Gardens This Season!
Fall is a spectacular time to head over to the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn, New York. The new colors that emerge with the new season make for a stunning exhibit. There are new plants that come around for the fall season and deeper darker colors of flowers and plants that are perfect for fall that can last into the winter season.
There are a few different exhibitions going on this fall that are worthy of visiting if you are in the Tri State Area. “The Edible Garden” is currently going on now at the Botanical Gardens. From June through mid October, “The Edible Garden” celebrates growing and eating food that you grow yourself. There is a variety of displays and gardens featuring vegetables and plants perfect for home cooked meals. There are different festivals going on during the weekends, and plenty of different demonstrations from food experts, celebrity appearance s, and programs on nutrition and the economy for all to enjoy. Proceeds are donated to the Children Gardening Program.
If you are in the area, or planning a trip to the New York area, be sure to visit the spectacular Botanical Gardens. If you see plants you are interested in, or would like added to you garden please feel free to contact Scenic Landscaping. For information regarding other exhibitions and ticket information visit the Botanical Garden website at http://www.nybg.org/
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Themed Gardens
This summer is the perfect time to get creative with your yard. The combination of great weather and summer days are inspiration to spruce up your yard and garden into an outdoor space for all to admire and enjoy.
A great idea is to come up with a themed garden. Whether you have an idea in mind, or would like to consult with a professional, themed gardens are a great way to add some personality and color to the outside of your home.
You could start simple, with focusing on one color as your theme garden. A bright, vibrant, summer color that is prominent throughout your yard and garden. Gardens often rely on eye-pleasing combinations of various colors of flowers, either bold bright colors, or subtle pastel colors. A color themed garden would focus only on one or two colors, which produces some unique and beautiful effects.
Another popular idea is a natural rock garden. Rock gardens are traditionally planted directly in the ground. For smaller areas, an equally aesthetic form may be designed to fit. Walls or rock outcroppings can also be cultivated as a sort of vertical garden by filling the spaces with soil and planting alpines and small perennials, which will make a lovely cascading show when in bloom.
If your summer schedule doesn’t allow you enough time to garden by yourself, professionals such as Scenic Landscaping can help to design, create and flourish a garden best suited to your home, personality and yard space.
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A great idea is to come up with a themed garden. Whether you have an idea in mind, or would like to consult with a professional, themed gardens are a great way to add some personality and color to the outside of your home.
You could start simple, with focusing on one color as your theme garden. A bright, vibrant, summer color that is prominent throughout your yard and garden. Gardens often rely on eye-pleasing combinations of various colors of flowers, either bold bright colors, or subtle pastel colors. A color themed garden would focus only on one or two colors, which produces some unique and beautiful effects.
Another popular idea is a natural rock garden. Rock gardens are traditionally planted directly in the ground. For smaller areas, an equally aesthetic form may be designed to fit. Walls or rock outcroppings can also be cultivated as a sort of vertical garden by filling the spaces with soil and planting alpines and small perennials, which will make a lovely cascading show when in bloom.
If your summer schedule doesn’t allow you enough time to garden by yourself, professionals such as Scenic Landscaping can help to design, create and flourish a garden best suited to your home, personality and yard space.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Fireplaces – Fun All Year Round
Anyone who can reminisce about a pastime spent around a campfire can see the allure of having a fireplace in their own backyard. Nothing is more enjoyable than spending time outside with friends and family. Fireplaces and Fire-pits can be designed in a variety of styles, sizes and price points utilizing a large range of materials and endless choices.
It’s easy to see why they are fast becoming a popular addition to our backyards. Unlike a pool which has a short lived season in our climate a fireplace can not only extend the night, but can extend the seasons. Design can be as simple as a ring of stones or as elaborate as a full masonry fireplace complete with areas to store logs and your fire tending tools.
You can choose a gas burning unit with convenience rivaling that of turning on your television or you can stick with the more traditional fuel. When designed correctly it will become a focal point of an outdoor space and couple it with comfortable furniture and you have an outdoor room that will provide you with endless hours of enjoyment all year round. Sit outside in your backyard on a nice summer night with friends and family, makings’mores, enjoying some drinks, and making more memories in the years to come.
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It’s easy to see why they are fast becoming a popular addition to our backyards. Unlike a pool which has a short lived season in our climate a fireplace can not only extend the night, but can extend the seasons. Design can be as simple as a ring of stones or as elaborate as a full masonry fireplace complete with areas to store logs and your fire tending tools.
You can choose a gas burning unit with convenience rivaling that of turning on your television or you can stick with the more traditional fuel. When designed correctly it will become a focal point of an outdoor space and couple it with comfortable furniture and you have an outdoor room that will provide you with endless hours of enjoyment all year round. Sit outside in your backyard on a nice summer night with friends and family, makings’mores, enjoying some drinks, and making more memories in the years to come.
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Scenic Landscaping LLC: NJ’s premiere Design-Build Firm
The Design-Build firm combines professional design services with professional construction services. The combination of these services provides a seamless, cost effective and practical project from one accountable source: Scenic Landscaping LLC.
Tapestry Landscape Architecture is NJ’s premiere Design-Build Firm, creating successful projects for over 34 years.
There are 5 key benefits to working with a design-build firm.
1-Cost effectiveness
2-Time Efficient/ Streamlined Process
3-Single Source Accountability
4-One Stop Shopping
5-Practical Constructability
Working with a DBF will provide you with savings from every aspect of the project. Detailed designs with construction details, permit applications and accurate budgets from a single source will result in faster project delivery, saving you time and money.
In all the most important aspect is practical constructability. Can your project be built on time and on budget? Before ever starting your project a DBF can quickly determine whether the proposed project is feasible before you invest time and money in the design.
While starting your project your designer, knowing your budget, will provide you with accurate and realistic plans for your project having intimate knowledge of what the real cost of construction is.
All of the necessary services to create a successful project will be managed by a single source, from design to construction. From masonry to pool installation, plantings to fencing, water gardening to irrigation and night lighting all of these services are planned for and managed by a DBF firm. The single source allows for one stop shopping for all the services needed to create a successful project.
This then allows for single source accountability. When a problem does arise there is no finger pointing or waiting for the designer/contractor to make time to create a solution. A DBF will often solve the issue without the client ever knowing there was one.
Tapestry Landscape Architecture is NJ’s premiere Design-Build Firm, creating successful projects for over 34 years.
There are 5 key benefits to working with a design-build firm.
1-Cost effectiveness
2-Time Efficient/ Streamlined Process
3-Single Source Accountability
4-One Stop Shopping
5-Practical Constructability
Working with a DBF will provide you with savings from every aspect of the project. Detailed designs with construction details, permit applications and accurate budgets from a single source will result in faster project delivery, saving you time and money.
In all the most important aspect is practical constructability. Can your project be built on time and on budget? Before ever starting your project a DBF can quickly determine whether the proposed project is feasible before you invest time and money in the design.
While starting your project your designer, knowing your budget, will provide you with accurate and realistic plans for your project having intimate knowledge of what the real cost of construction is.
All of the necessary services to create a successful project will be managed by a single source, from design to construction. From masonry to pool installation, plantings to fencing, water gardening to irrigation and night lighting all of these services are planned for and managed by a DBF firm. The single source allows for one stop shopping for all the services needed to create a successful project.
This then allows for single source accountability. When a problem does arise there is no finger pointing or waiting for the designer/contractor to make time to create a solution. A DBF will often solve the issue without the client ever knowing there was one.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Walk this way
Don’t be fooled by this stone walkway’s charming weathered look; it’s actually a recent addition to a once-neglected Fair Lawn backyard. “When we started, there was just a steep slope going into a lawn that was overgrown with brush and ivy,” says Mike Kukol of Horizon Landscape & Irrigation Company in Wyckoff. And with no clear path through the overgrowth, the only usable land was a 5-foot-wide swath at the top of the hill.
After sprucing up the yard with lush green grass, Kukol added the steps, made of natural quarried stone from Pennsylvania, to make it easy to walk down the hill. An adjacent garden area featuring two natural rock walls spanning more than 50 feet serves to further beautify the area.
The garden also contains rhododendron, astilbe, heuchera, columbines and itea—plants that thrive in the shade. “When planting around a walkway, it’s important to consider sun exposure,” says Kukol. Working with a sunnier spot? Kukol recommends planting ajuga, juniper, dianthus and black-eyed Susans.
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After sprucing up the yard with lush green grass, Kukol added the steps, made of natural quarried stone from Pennsylvania, to make it easy to walk down the hill. An adjacent garden area featuring two natural rock walls spanning more than 50 feet serves to further beautify the area.
The garden also contains rhododendron, astilbe, heuchera, columbines and itea—plants that thrive in the shade. “When planting around a walkway, it’s important to consider sun exposure,” says Kukol. Working with a sunnier spot? Kukol recommends planting ajuga, juniper, dianthus and black-eyed Susans.
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Welcome to paradise
“We wanted to create a tropical paradise,” says Mitch Knapp (president of Scenic Landscaping and a partner at Tapestry Landscape Architecture, both in Haskell) of this stunning patio and pool area in Frank-
lin Lakes.
In keeping with the theme, wild, natural-looking elements are incorporated throughout the space. Exotic plants—including coral-bark maple, gold mop cypresses, natural grasses and tropical annuals—evoke a remote natural wonderland. A large patio made of Idaho quartzite from Stonetown Construction Corporation in Oakland provides an ideal spot to soak up the sun, while an irregular- shaped pool, moss rock waterfall, Jacuzzi and curved waterslide—all from B&B Pool & Spa Center in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.—create an extra splash of fun.
“The homeowner told me he wanted to feel like he was on vacation all the time, and that’s what we achieved,” says Knapp.
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lin Lakes.
In keeping with the theme, wild, natural-looking elements are incorporated throughout the space. Exotic plants—including coral-bark maple, gold mop cypresses, natural grasses and tropical annuals—evoke a remote natural wonderland. A large patio made of Idaho quartzite from Stonetown Construction Corporation in Oakland provides an ideal spot to soak up the sun, while an irregular- shaped pool, moss rock waterfall, Jacuzzi and curved waterslide—all from B&B Pool & Spa Center in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.—create an extra splash of fun.
“The homeowner told me he wanted to feel like he was on vacation all the time, and that’s what we achieved,” says Knapp.
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Outdoor Living Made Beautiful
The move is on—indoor spaces are heading out! Already prevalent on the West coast, this landscaping trend has migrated here to the East as more and more homeowners discover the joys and convenience of entertaining outdoors. They’re spurred in part by the growing number of products, once typically used only for interiors, being designed with outdoor living in mind. Today, rooms that are inside your home are also being created for outside living.
For example, an outdoor kitchen can be designed fully equipped with a BBQ, refrigerator, kegerator, wine cooler, sink, TV, oreven a stereo system. Outdoor fireplaces and fire pits have also joined the trend. After all, who wouldn’t love to gather around an inviting backyard fire while enjoying a glass of wine and discussing the day’s news with family and friends? If the thought of chilling and basking in all the comforts of outdoor luxury sounds tempting, sit back and take a visual tour of some of the landscape scenes created for area residents by the service professionals at Scenic Landscaping. They might just spur your imagination and desire to create an outdoor oasis for your own heavenly home retreat.
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For example, an outdoor kitchen can be designed fully equipped with a BBQ, refrigerator, kegerator, wine cooler, sink, TV, oreven a stereo system. Outdoor fireplaces and fire pits have also joined the trend. After all, who wouldn’t love to gather around an inviting backyard fire while enjoying a glass of wine and discussing the day’s news with family and friends? If the thought of chilling and basking in all the comforts of outdoor luxury sounds tempting, sit back and take a visual tour of some of the landscape scenes created for area residents by the service professionals at Scenic Landscaping. They might just spur your imagination and desire to create an outdoor oasis for your own heavenly home retreat.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Facts about winter maintenance: Getting ready for winter
Snow and ice can not only be hazardous to walk or drive in but can wreak havoc with your home and landscape if not properly dealt with.
It’s always a good idea in the late fall to have markers placed on your driveway (and even along the street) to delineate where your driveway begins and ends. Place them in the ground before it freezes and you won’t be dealing with costly repairs to your lawn and shrubs due to unknowing plows.
When it snows make sure it is moved away from doors on stoops, patios, decks or any area that is adjacent to a means of egress in and out of your house. Accumulated snow can blow inside if not moved or can melt and find its way in to your home possibly causing water damage.
When treating slippery spots on your hardscape surfaces make sure you match the melting product with your surface. Concrete and concrete products will corrode with the use of salt. All stone patios and steps with mortar joints as well as all paver products can be damaged. Instead use either Calcium Chloride or Potassium Chloride. They are gentler on concrete, have a lower re-freezing temperature and are significantly less toxic for your plants and lawn. Salt is fine for larger areas like Asphalt driveways, but stick with KCl or CaCl for everything else.
Another good idea when there are heavy snowfalls is to ease the weight burden on your plants and trees by having snow removed from their branches. Wet heavy snow can break branches and leave a plant deformed, often taking years to grow out.
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It’s always a good idea in the late fall to have markers placed on your driveway (and even along the street) to delineate where your driveway begins and ends. Place them in the ground before it freezes and you won’t be dealing with costly repairs to your lawn and shrubs due to unknowing plows.
When it snows make sure it is moved away from doors on stoops, patios, decks or any area that is adjacent to a means of egress in and out of your house. Accumulated snow can blow inside if not moved or can melt and find its way in to your home possibly causing water damage.
When treating slippery spots on your hardscape surfaces make sure you match the melting product with your surface. Concrete and concrete products will corrode with the use of salt. All stone patios and steps with mortar joints as well as all paver products can be damaged. Instead use either Calcium Chloride or Potassium Chloride. They are gentler on concrete, have a lower re-freezing temperature and are significantly less toxic for your plants and lawn. Salt is fine for larger areas like Asphalt driveways, but stick with KCl or CaCl for everything else.
Another good idea when there are heavy snowfalls is to ease the weight burden on your plants and trees by having snow removed from their branches. Wet heavy snow can break branches and leave a plant deformed, often taking years to grow out.
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Scenic Landscaping : 30 Years of Award-winning Service
Scenic Landscaping is a premier NJ landscape design-build firm. We have been creating landscapes in Northern New Jersey for over 34 years. We work in collaboration with our sister company, Tapestry Landscape Architecture. We will design and install a landscape that is superior in quality to others. Some of our services include, but are not limited to: pool design and layout, walkways, patios, outdoor kitchens, BBQ areas, pergola and gazebo layout, deer resistant plants, outdoor fireplaces and pits, stone walls, water gardens, lighting design, and location of mature plants and specimen. You are invited to browse our website and see why we are the top New Jersey Landscape design-build firm. We proudly serve the following counties: Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris, Essex, Sussex, Union and northern parts of Somerset.
Let us be your best installation experience. We will coordinate the entire project and strive for perfection. With over 30 years of award-winning service and an unparalleled team of over 100 landscape architects, designers, project managers, masons, and horticulturists, Scenic can and will turn your landscaping dreams into reality.
Let us be your best installation experience. We will coordinate the entire project and strive for perfection. With over 30 years of award-winning service and an unparalleled team of over 100 landscape architects, designers, project managers, masons, and horticulturists, Scenic can and will turn your landscaping dreams into reality.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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