When it comes to beautifying your property, your focus can be on landscaping, hardscaping, or both. Landscaping concerns all organic elements, such as trees, shrubs, and flowers, while hardscaping deals exclusively with inorganic features. Here, learn more about hardscaping and how it benefits your property.

Examples of Hardscaping

Any feature on your property that does not require nutrients to survive is an example of hardscaping. Fences that define boundaries, provide privacy, and increase safety are hardscape features, as are retaining walls that prevent erosion and stagger sloped landscapes to provide spaces for flowers, shrubs, and small trees. Other structural hardscapes include pergolas that attach to your home or serve as freestanding sources of shade.

Water features are among the many other hardscaping possibilities, such as a constructed waterfall that flows into a manmade fish pond or a fountain that offsets native flowers and adds ambiance to a patio area. Patios along with decks and outdoor kitchens also live under the hardscape umbrella.

Benefits

Hardscaping projects provide a variety of benefits, such as adding texture and dimension to create a more varied, beautiful yard. Features such as retaining walls control property erosion, while all hardscape elements help control the amount of water you use to maintain your yard.

Pergolas and other hardscape features are also virtually maintenance-free and provide aesthetic value regardless of the time of year. Patios, decks, fire pits, and outdoor kitchens provide entertainment benefits by creating spaces for family and friends to congregate, and function as extensions of your home. Additionally, most hardscape features last for decades. 
 

Discuss your hardscaping vision with the team at Yano’s Nursery. The Omaha, NE-based, family-owned garden center provides a wide range of hardscaping services in addition to selling flowers, trees, shrubs, plants, and garden fertilizers. Call the business with over 30 years of experience today at (402) 895-1535 to schedule a consultation. Learn more about their capabilities online.