What is a Hardscape?  Quite simply, it’s the non-living “stuff” in your yard, such as rocks, pavers, bricks, or stones, whereas the landscape includes the living elements, such as plants, flowers, shrubs, and trees.  When deciding on your hardscaping, consider the following top tips!

  • Choosing a Theme: Your hardscaping design should complement your existing home.  Whether it is the exterior colors and style or an existing hardscape that you may wish to expand, try to avoid mismatched elements and instead go for things that are complimentary.
  • Proper Drainage Adding hardscaping elements, like a retaining wall or patio, can alter the path by which water drains.  From a heavy thunderstorm or melting snow, be certain that your ground can handle the running water.  Proper drainage is vital and is best suited for a professional so the runoff can be routed effectively.
  • The Master Plan: Grab some pencil and paper and draw it out!  It’s strongly advisable to higher a seasoned master builder/designer, but a properly designed drawing will allow you to visualize all of your plans, from a new walking path that wraps around your home to a patio and fireplace.
  • Rhine Landscaping and Poolscaping: Our pool designs can include water features such as waterfalls, hot tubs and waterslides. Our landscape designers listen to the clients’ needs, look at the overall architecture of your home, existing hardscape elements and landscaping, proper drainage systems and the surrounding environment when creating a design. Rhine Landscaping can also assist you with enhancing your swimming pool area with additional walkways, patios, hardscape element, water features and much more!

If you have any additional questions about your Swimming Pool and Landscape Design, contact Rhine Landscaping by calling 410-442-2445 or click here today!

Rhine Landscaping in Baltimore, Maryland can handle every aspect of your landscape, from hardscapes and patios / walkways, to retaining walls, water features such as fountains, fireplaces / firepits, swimming pools, landscape design, landscape installation, outdoor kitchens, decks, pavilions, basement waterproofing, drainageand more,

We can help you transform your landscape.