DESIGN/BUILD
Thank you for considering Brookside Landscapes. We appreciate the opportunity to consider your home and how your outdoor spaces can enhance your life.
Our goal is to bring you a landscape perfectly suited to the needs of you and your family or business through the seamless collaboration of both our design and construction teams.
ELEMENTS OF A
GOOD DESIGN:
Low Maintenance
The single most common request among clients is “Low Maintenance”. This is achieved by working with nature and not against it. Rock landscapes may minimize maintenance in the first year, but dramatically increase long-term maintenance.
Addresses the Big Picture
Consider how your home is viewed from the street, a 1/2 block down the street, and how a visitor will approach your front door. Consider the architectural style of your home and how your landscape can enhance its features as well as strengthen that architectural style. Specific plant and hardscape selections/arrangements should work in accordance with these 'big picture" considerations.
Native Restorations
Native communities reduce maintenance, limit runoff and erosion, and provide a sense of place. Buffalo didn’t have leaf rakes or hedge trimmers.
Minimized Lawn
The highest maintenance landscape surface that is the least visually “natural” is the bluegrass lawn. America's “love affair” with the lawn ensures its place in our landscapes, but should be considered for what it is, and not a given. Lawn makes a superior recreational surface, and can make a strong visual impact.
Plant Massing
Multiple plantings of a single species in a “mass” or “drift” is one of the most basic, but important landscape principles. Same species should mass together in time. They provide more impact in their prime season, and cover ground plane.
Seasonal Change
A landscape should enhance our dramatic seasons by providing change, that then becomes remarkable. Plants bred for purple or yellow summer foliage are unnatural and very static. A Landscape becomes theatrical when a mass of Black-Eyed-Susan comes into flower or a sumac grove fires red in the fall.
Perennial & Grass Use
Not only do these plants like our environment, limit overgrowth, and provide natural timing for color, but can reduce maintenance dramatically. Our summers are hot and dry, and that’s what many of these plants love.
Livable Spaces
If an outdoor space is comfortable, inviting, and functions correctly with your lifestyle, it will become a living space that is an extension of your home.
CONSTRUCTION
At Brookside, we believe that the process of delivering a landscape should be as enjoyable as the final product. To achieve this, our highly trained construction teams play a crucial role. Our Construction Manager will get in touch with you during the transition from design to construction. They will communicate the schedule and introduce you to your Project Manager/Foreman. Your Foreman will be your primary contact during the construction process. They will oversee the on-site construction process daily, schedule and communicate with subcontractors, and arrange for material deliveries.
“This is a great “family” of workers. We loved everyone and everything they did to enhance our home. The outcome is beautiful. We highly recommend the Brookside team!”