Landscape Services by South River Landscape

Design

Great landscaping begins with great design.  Great design means not just appreciating the natural environment around your home, but making a professional assessment of the features and characteristics of your landscape.  Working with your lands’ unique features can mean living in harmony with your landscape.

Usage, traffic flow, children, pets, drainage - these are among many important factors that are considered when designing the spaces around your home.  Chris designs landscapes that harmonize your life and your land.  When installed properly the right design will add functionality, beauty, and value to your home.  This value will only increase as your landscape matures.

Retaining Walls

A retaining wall, either natural stone or a popular 'segmental retaining wall system', can be the most important feature of a landscape.  These walls can allow you to make use of space that was once unusable, widen a driveway to create parking, carve out a hillside to create a new space, or build terraced gardens.

The sites on which homes are situated are rarely level.  The natural contours of your land are what make it unique.  Building walls that accentuate these contours can create and define your outdoor living space.  Creating elevated planting beds, patio space or play space can be achieved with such walls.

Steps

Steps and staircases allow pedestrians to climb a slope with less effort and more ease. Negotiating steep grades can be most readily achieved with stairs.  A steep slope that leads to a door is clearly a place for some stairs, but longer or more gradual slopes can also benefit from carefully placed steps.

Steps and stairs need to be planned as part of the overall design.  Solid rock-faced granite is the preferred material for building steps.  But no matter which material is used, properly designed and built steps will increase the beauty and accessibility of a space.

Patios & Walkways

Walkways and patios are great additions to a home that immediately increase your enjoyment of space.  Surface areas around a home that provide seating for relaxing and entertaining become extensions of your living area.  Increasing the useable square footage of your property increases its value, of course, but more importantly increases your pleasure.

Properly built patios mean long-lasting outdoor living spaces, while properly built walkways guide people through a property, allowing safe access and creating flow.  Walk with confidence, sit outside, and enjoy your environment.

Lawns

While we don't cut or maintain grass as a practice, South River Landscape excels at installing, repairing and replacing lawns.  We bring in soil, grade to ensure proper drainage, and hand rake to prepare the soil for hydro-seed or sod.  We work with an irrigation specialist or will work with yours to ensure the lawn is properly watered.

Great lawns create the perfect floor covering for our outdoor play areas that you can enjoy for generations.  Whether you choose to install hydro-seed or sod, South River Landscape will make sure you get off to a great start.  Integrating trees and other plant life with your lawns helps home sites look more natural.

Plantings

Flowering trees and shrubs are what decorate the areas around our home.  It is these plantings that can attract wildlife, create natural beauty, and add texture, color and contrast.  Proper plantings can provide privacy, shade or even a snack.  South River Landscape has the expertise to advise you on the plants that will do the best in your environment, meet your maintenance expectations, and increase the value of your home.