One way to look at it is if you look out your window and see a fixed feature in your yard affecting the overall look and feel or even the practical functioning of your property, then that feature is part of the “landscaping” of the property.

What Is Landscaping Curb Appeal?

Quality Landscaping is an important part of your family’s home curb appeal. Jake Ryan Landscaping are experts in making your home look amazing. Whether you plan to sell your home or be a good community neighbor, investing in your home’s curb appeal adds value to your home and neighborhood. 

What Is Hardscaping?

We believe you should begin any landscaping and hardscaping project by dreaming big. You can hold back your over-the-top ideas later. First, get it all out on paper. Make a list of everything you want in your landscape. This includes your new patio, inground swimming pool, outdoor entertainment, garden, or outdoor playground.

Where should you spend your money? and where should you look to save? Some things worth spending the money on, such as a master plan, masonry to give your garden a good foundation, quality materials to withstand the Michigan elements, privacy, and, of course, craftsmanship. A few ways to save are to use gravel instead of expensive pavers on paths, reuse existing materials (bricks, stone, pickets), buyer smaller plants and use mix-and-match furniture.

Small details can have a big impact on your landscaping vision.  Be sure the hardscape materials such as stone, pavers, concrete, gravel, wood, paint, hardware—all work together, and also complement your home’s architectural look, feel, and style.

Whether you are building a brand new outdoor living space or remodeling an existing one, here us a foundation idea that will help make your vision a reality.

Consider using stone for the majority of your landscape—keeping in mind it is best to choose natural stone materials that are native to the area where you live. For instance, if your home is in the Northeast United States and you want a modern look, natural stone materials such as bluestone, dark stone and flagstone can be used.

If your home is located in the Southwest of the U.S., you might use quartzite or some other bright-colored stone for interest, warmth, and durability. If your landscape is somewhere in between, using granite or limestone works just as well.

Landscaping Ideas For White Lake Residence 

Well designed landscape is inspiring. It provides a sense of calm and balance. Beautiful landscaping boosts your spirit and gives you a sense of solace. As mentioned above, a great landscape can improve the curb appeal of your home and will inspire other people in your neighborhood to turn their own yards into a landscape paradise too.

Landscaping can be an excellent outlet for your creativity. Nature offers an expansive palette of colors, textures, scents to choose from. However, with so many landscaping options to consider, where do you begin?

You may want to create a sanctuary or an entertainment area around your White Lake/Oakland County home, yet, you’ll get ideas on how to do it. We found some expert insights (and asked our team) for troubleshooting advice to help you create a landscape which suits your unique tastes and appeals to all your senses.

Below is a list of concepts to consider for your White Lake/ Lakes Area Landscaping:

Water features and hardscaping.

• Consider unique design for your driveway or sidewalk.
• Use water as part of your landscape environment. 
• Design a patio with unique materials, patio styles, and patio layouts.
• Landscape a theme such as, including modern, traditional, country, Mediterranean, tropical and desert.
• Consider creating an outdoor kitchen.
• Get inspiration from other award-winning projects from landscaping professionals across the country.
• Consider designs related to a Michigan theme.
• Incorporate vegetable and container gardens as part of your landscape.
• Keep it simple add hardy low-maintenance plants, sticking with basic materials, minimizing complex details, and choosing straightforward uncomplicated layouts.
• Consider nature as part of your landscape such as meadow gardens with native plantings, growing your own food, going lawn-free, landscaping as an art form, and planting gardens that attract butterflies, birds and bees.

Nature offers you a bounty of beauty to work with to create the White Lake landscape of your dreams. Our landscape design team can help you make the most of the opportunities available by pointing you to the best plants, materials and garden layouts for achieving your landscape goals

White Lake

White Lake Charter Township is a charter township of the County of Oakland  in the U.S. state of Michigan. Together with its two unincorporated communities, the township makes up part of the Detroit metro area. As of the 2010 the township population was 30,019.

Landscape contractors –  Jake Ryan Landscaping White Lake Michigan