Frequently Asked Questions

NSW Landscaping & Garden Maintenance offers

● Licensed Builders
● Paving
● Water features
● Qualified Horticulturists
● Pergolas
● Concreting
● Hard Landscaping
● Decking
● Wholesale plants
● Soft Landscaping
● Irrigation
● Garden lighting
● Landscape planning
● Retaining walls
● Renovations
 

Each landscape design is unique and must take into account many things including your climate, topography of your property and the surrounding properties to ensure correct water runoff, your family and lifestyle, the physical layout of the property and of course your personal taste. Secondarily you must also remember that plants of all kinds grow and that almost all plants are seasonal in their appearance. It is important that you plan that growth and seasonality into your design.

The most important prerequisite for growing vegetables is an abundance of sunlight. A vegetable garden needs to be located in the most open and sunny part of the garden, away from overhanging trees or shade from buildings.

This often means that the vegetable garden has to be centrally sited. Not always an appealing thought but properly maintained there is no reason why a vegetable garden should not be as attractive as an ornamental garden.

There are 8 types of landscape lighting:

Down Lighting – placing spot or flood lights in high position on your home or in a tree pointing downward will provide a very soft effect.

Up Lighting – mounting fixtures, spot, flood, or in ground lights on the ground or ground surface pointing upwards will accent a specific object.

Cross Lighting – using spot or flood lights mounted on your home a tree, or fence so that they the light is horizontal will create an array of soft but interesting shadows.

Shadowing – intentionally creating shadows, such as having a tree of shrub appear on a wall, can truly make a wondrous scene. This can be accomplished with the appropriate use of spot, flood and in-ground fixtures.

Silhouetting – silhouetting is the technique of placing a spot, flood or in ground light installed behind an object such as a tree or bush.

Accent Lighting – provides definition as it is the application of intense light aimed at a specific object, contrasting the lit object against the dark night background. To accomplish accent lighting install spot lights as either cross or up lighting.

Spread Lighting – creates a spherical pattern of light and should be used to highlight groups of flowers or shrubs. The best method to accomplish this is to use flood down lighting.

Grazing Light – to enhance and display the texture of a tree or shrub, position a spot light so that it just illuminates the outside fringe of the object.