Hard Landscaping

Hard landscaping is not just about paths and driveways – it also includes garden walls, the laying of slabs for greenhouses or sheds, patios and water features. Any garden features that involve the use of rocks or concrete would be placed in this classification.

Landscape design or garden design plans should take into consideration the importance of outdoor services such as trenching for out door tap supply and electrical armoured cables for shed lighting or exterior lights for driveways, etc.

These installations must be applied before physical laying of hard landscaping is applied.

So the essence is in the effective advance thought and good planning that will avoid or reduce the risk of undoing what has previously been constructed to ‘put right’. Therefore any temptation to deal with laying of concrete or rocks prior to landscaping design could potentially be disastrous – an example of this would be laying a front driveway then taking delivery of further materials for the back garden, damaging perhaps the work already undertaken.

Leave this to Four Winds to discuss with you prior to construction.