Planning ahead in landscape design saves time, money, and frustration while leading to a more beautiful and functional outdoor space. Thoughtful planning allows you to consider plant size at maturity, seasonal interest, maintenance needs, and how the landscape will be used, reducing costly mistakes like overcrowding or poorly placed features. Outdoor Craftsmen’s well-planned designs facilitate […]
Container Gardens
Thankful for so much, including the skill and hard work of the Outdoor Craftsmen team
The landscape professionals we employ at Outdoor Craftsmen give you, and our company, something priceless: beautiful, healthy outdoor spaces that enhance our daily lives. They transform bare ground into welcoming gardens, wildlife-friendly habitats, and places where families gather and neighbors connect. Their work requires deep knowledge of soil, plants, water, and design — skills we […]
Are trends a good thing in landscape design? Our expert designers weigh in.
Following landscape trends can be inspiring and help refresh an outdoor space. But following trends also comes with trade-offs. Pros: Outdoor Craftsmen stays current with landscape trends to keep our designs stylish and cohesive with modern design aesthetics. Trends often highlight new ideas in sustainability, such as drought-tolerant plantings, native gardens, or water-saving irrigation systems […]
Rethinking unused outdoor spaces
Outdoor Craftsmen is often called upon to ‘recontextualize’ unused outdoor space – those places outside that we all have somewhere on our property that are not used for kids, social gatherings and entertainment, or active gardening. Recontextualizing a space involves transforming underutilized areas into functional, beautiful, and sustainable features that enhance your outdoor environment. For […]
Goth Gardens are dark and moody and trending for landscaping this season
“Goth Gardens” is a concept that merges the dark aesthetic of gothic culture with the beauty and creativity of gardening. It’s a twist on traditional gardening aesthetic, incorporating elements of darkness into garden design and plant selection to embrace the darker side of nature. What Outdoor Craftsmen likes to include in the landscape for this […]
Garden Goals
Start the new year by making a ‘landscape resolution’. Garden resolutions encourage beauty, good health and wellness, and better nutrition. They help us to branch outside of traditional landscaping ideas to try something new and different; something to better suit our current lifestyle. Get inspired for the year ahead with these on-trend ideas for […]
