Month: January 2015

Retaining Walls: Practical Beauty for Your Silver Spring MD Landscape

Retaining walls can be beautiful – and help solve a myriad of landscaping issues at your Silver Spring MD home.

In the simplest of terms, retaining walls hold back earth; retaining wall design, expert engineering, and materials can add a practical beauty to your Silver Spring MD landscape.

A severe backyard slope can be made into a useful area for play, gardening, and entertaining, with the addition of a stone retaining wall or walls that cut into the slope.

Retaining walls can also be used to battle flooding from a neighbor’s yard – or from another part of your yard. Retaining walls can be used to make way for an expanded driveway, or just to add interest to a flat area of your lawn. A series of low retaining walls make useful terraces for growing flowers and vegetables.

For more information on retaining walls in Silver Spring MD, please contact East Coast Landscape Design, the Washington D.C. area’s leading licensed landscape design company. Located in Montgomery County, Maryland since 1979, the company has designed and installed retaining walls and other landscape projects, including patios, outdoor kitchens, and driveways in Silver Spring MD.

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Latest Trends in Landscape Design in Silver Spring MD

Thinking about a new landscape design for your Silver Spring MD home? Here are some of the latest trends for you to consider:

  • Your landscape design in Silver Spring MD should be a positive reflection of you and your health. This means incorporating plants that resonate with you, and enhance your mental and physical health. Think about how tastes, smells, textures, colors, and health benefits of plants affect you and your family.
  • Your landscape design can be both beautiful and good for the environment. For instance, you can have attractive native species plants that will thrive in specific areas around your Silver Spring MD home and conserve water. There are also organic methods for managing weeds, grass clippings, leaves, and feeding plants that will also benefit the environment.
  • Your landscape design should enhance your lifestyle and enjoyment of your Silver Spring MD home. A delightful path through wildflowers with a place to sit and read, a beautiful wood deck with planters full of herbs and edible flowers for dining, and outdoor mood lighting can really enhance the enjoyment of your Silver Spring MD home.

For more information on the latest trends in landscape design, and how they can benefit you and your Silver Spring MD home, please contact East Coast Landscape Design. For over 30 years, East Coast Landscape Design has been Silver Spring MD’s leading licensed landscape contractor, and has designed and installed landscapes that both enhance our clients’ lifestyles and the beauty of their homes.

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