Services
Design Planting Patio Walkway Retaining Drainage Services
BrightShade Gardens offer comprehensive landscape design and maintenance to clients in the greater Washington area. Services include:
The Design Process starts with a conversation. We want to know how you would like to live in your yard. Do you want to have a place to dine? Do you want to play catch with your children? Have you always wanted to be a gardener but don’t know how to get started? We will take your dreams and put them on paper.
The area in which we live is a spectacular place for plants. The options often feel limitless, and it is a joy to simply recount the beautiful gardens we have installed in the last thirteen years. We consider many factors in selecting plants for your property: sun exposure, drainage, soil, style of house, and homeowner goals.
Take a look at your back yard. Now, suppose you could turn that muddy mess into your own private courtyard, an outdoor recreation area, or an alfresco dining room open to the sun and stars. Patios are outdoor rooms. Whether created to entertain guests or to entertain the idea of having your own private island right in your back yard, a patio is limited only by your own imagination.
Your walkway greets you every time you enter your home. Does it fit the scale and aesthetic of your home? Is it wide enough to accommodate two people? Is it designed with human behavior in mind? It’s the first thing you see, and it should be beautiful and welcoming.
A retaining wall is generally built in order to retain soil. However, walls can serve aesthetic functions as well. A knee wall along a stone patio can provide far more seating than a table for six, a stone or brick foundation wall is the perfect frame for your plantings, and walls can create height in petite courtyard gardens.
Proper drainage at your home is not glamorous, but it is very, very important. Water needs to move away from the foundation of your house, water cannot sit in you gardens, and water shouldn’t create a spongy mess in your grass. BrightShade can design and install a solution that protects your home and gardens.