samedi 26 avril 2014

Driveway Landscaping Designs

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 attention-drawing 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 and the spanning of the opening in the wall with an arch are other driveway landscaping ideas. The variations appear to be practically endless, as far as the softscape side of driveway landscaping is concerned.

With a small budget and a large driveway, accenting the driveway entrance is certainly a cheaper way of driveway landscaping. But it is not really about the budget and the driveway size. It is actually about the purpose for the landscaping. Is it for the creation of a grand driveway entrance, the running of the length of the driveway or both?

Where the gaze of the viewer is wanted to be drawn and what features of the property are wished to be emphasized are the primary considerations for a driveway landscaping project, should budget not be a primary concern. These considerations fit both hardscape and softscape options equally.

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.

If the destination of the driveway is an ordinary-looking garage, in plain view from the street, then attention should not be drawn to it. 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, would be a redundancy that driveway landscaping wants avoided. In such instances, straight flower beds planted along the edges of the driveway is a no-no.




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