FAQs: Landscaping, Lawn Care & More

The easiest method to identify a quality landscaper or landscaping firm is through word of mouth. Ask your friends, neighbors, and coworkers whether they have ever worked with a company they would recommend. Another helpful resource is reading internet reviews and visiting company websites to discover what types of projects they've worked on. Once you've narrowed it down, schedule a consultation with each company. This allows you to discover more about their ideals and services before deciding which one best meets your project's requirements.

Modern landscaping is the design, planning, and construction of gardens and other elements that provide usable space for outside activities while improving the appearance of a home. Landscaping covers both hardscaping and softscaping, however the terms are often used interchangeably. Materials used in hardscaping include stone and wood, as well as retaining walls, decks, and firepits. Planting ideas, generating burms, grading, and mulching would all be considered softscaping. GroundScapesUS designs both softscapes and hardscapes in the greater Nashville area.

In general, spring is the greatest season to prepare and grow flower beds, as well as begin hardscaping tasks. Most significant landscaping and hardscaping projects are completed during the summer construction season. Because temperatures are lower in the fall, it is an ideal time to plant trees and plants. Hardscaping continues in the fall until the ground freezes or snows.

One example is a previous project that started in late summer. All hardscaping work, including the patio, sitting walls, and fireplace, was completed, and trees and plants were planted as well. Perennial and annual plants bloom in the spring, so we planted them the following spring.

To ensure that your job is completed on time, start contacting landscaping contractors throughout the winter. This ensures that your project is on track when the season begins.

A backflow prevention assembly is a mechanical device installed in your private property after the water meter. It prevents water already in your property pipes from “backflowing” into the City water system, possibly contaminating the City’s potable water system. All customers that have a land irrigation system, including those installed at a residential location, that is connected to a public water supply are required by the State to install either a Reduced Pressure Principal device (RP) or a Pressure Vacuum Breaker (PVB).

When you build a new home, the layer of dirt removed contains all of the nutrients. Although your new sod will seem beautiful for a while, it is possible that your lawn has a poor CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity). This is the soil's aptitude or total capacity to retain vital nutrients. Adding organic matter is vital. Our experts or office staff can assist you with a program that includes a product that is the driving force behind a healthy grass. This product promotes aeration, reduces compaction, buffers pH, and improves fertilizer uptake. Best of all, it is environmentally friendly, natural, and safe.

Core aeration and overseeding provide the best results for your lawn when done in the fall. Core aeration will benefit your lawn by increasing air movement to the grass roots, enhancing the efficiency of fertilizer or planting, increasing water intake, and improving root depth and strength. Overseeding your lawn will increase the thickness of the turf, making it healthier and increasing the value of your property. These two procedures work together to enhance your lawn. Learn about the advantages of overseeding and aeration.

Contrary to popular assumption, pavers provide more structural support and manage weight distribution far better than poured concrete or asphalt. They are also considerably easier to handle, as any damage to one place may be immediately repaired, unlike poured concrete or asphalt.

The mosaic quality of pavers also allows for a considerably broader selection of design patterns and layouts, providing you more opportunity to customize the appearance of your home. When properly put, pavers will make your driveway, walkway, or patio appear nicer and endure longer than poured concrete or asphalt.

Stormwater, also referred to as runoff, surface water, or wet weather flow, is rain or snow that falls on streets, parking areas, rooftops and other hard surfaces. It then either flows directly into nearby streams or travels there through drainage systems, such as curbs and gutters, inlets, ditches, pipes, storm sewers, and detention ponds. The flows are then discharged directly into drainage ways such as Mill Creek, Browns Creek, Richland Creek, the Cumberland River and tributaries to these waterways. As the stormwater runs across the surfaces, it picks up pollutants or contaminants such as litter, debris, oils and antifreeze from cars, soil, pet waste, fertilizers, etc. As it picks up these contaminants, it becomes polluted.