What is the difference between maintenance and landscaping?
Activities involved in maintenance usually include mowing, edging, and leaf cleanup. The term landscaping can even include some other services for areas around your lawn, such as mulching landscape beds, installing plants, trimming trees and shrubs, and creating and maintaining hardscapes. Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following: Living elements, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly called gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beauty within the landscape.One of the most exciting trends in the future of landscaping is the emphasis on biodiversity. Native plants, which evolved in harmony with the local climate, soil, and wildlife, play a crucial role in creating a sustainable ecosystem.
What does a landscaper do exactly?
Landscapers are the architects of the outdoors. Their work revolves around designing, building, and maintaining outdoor environments. By merging art with nature, they create spaces that are both functional and beautiful. The principles of landscape design include the elements of unity, scale, balance, simplicity, variety, emphasis, and sequence as they apply to line, form, texture, and color. These elements are interconnected. Landscape design is a process of developing practical and pleasing outdoor living space.Designing a landscape is akin to creating a piece of art. Design uses line, texture and form to transform a space. Unlike a painting, a landscape is experienced as a person moves through various spaces. There are five primary elements of design, including mass, form, line, texture and color.To appreciate the nuances and the vastness of our environment, we need to delve into the four fundamental types of landscapes: geological, cultural, biological, and aesthetic landscapes. Let’s traverse this varied terrain to understand and appreciate the wonders each landscape has to offer.