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How Landscape Lighting Can Increase Safety and Security for Your Briarcliff Manor, NY, Property

How Landscape Lighting Can Increase Safety and Security for Your Briarcliff Manor, NY, Property

Whether you have lived in your Briarcliff Manor, NY, home for a while, or if it is new to you, increased landscape lighting can bring a much welcome sense of safety and security. As an additional bonus, increased exterior lighting makes your house and landscape look so much prettier at night.

5 Beautiful Flowering Shrubs for Your Briarcliff Manor, NY, Landscaping

5 Beautiful Flowering Shrubs for Your Briarcliff Manor, NY, Landscaping

Colorful flowers and luscious foliage are the crowning jewels of a great landscape. They add texture, shape, and a beautiful palette of colors found only in nature. If you want to accent your Briarcliff Manor, NY, landscaping with flowering shrubs, here are five of our favorites:

Landscaping Scarsdale NY - Landscape Company to Refresh Your Backyard

Landscaping Scarsdale NY - Landscape Company to Refresh Your Backyard

Renovating your Scarsdale, NY, landscape encompasses both large and easily overlooked tasks that the modern homeowner simply does not have time for. Read on to discover just what spring landscaping can entail and why you should entrust a reputable landscape company with the renovation of your landscape this spring:

Landscape Company's Tips for Maintaining Trees and Shrubs During the Winter Season in Westchester County, NY

Landscape Company's Tips for Maintaining Trees and Shrubs During the Winter Season in Westchester County, NY

Winters in Westchester County, NY, can be brutal with all the snow, freezing temperatures, and limited sunlight. But you are not the only one feeling the pain—your trees and shrubs get cold too. That’s why it is important to make sure your plantings are properly cared for in the cold winter months. Here are some tips from a landscape company on how to properly care for trees and shrubs during the winter season in your area.

How a Landscape Company Can Help You Choose the Right Specimen Tree for Your Croton, NY, Yard

How a Landscape Company Can Help You Choose the Right Specimen Tree for Your Croton, NY, Yard

Have you ever found yourself attracted to someone’s yard because of a particular tree? It could be that tree had been carefully chosen as a “specimen tree.” Such trees are noteworthy because of their size, shape, or sheer uniqueness, attributes that are intended to cause visitors to stop in their tracks and admire them. For your home in Croton, NY, a specimen tree could be viewed as the “diamond necklace” of its “outfit”—or the focus of attention in your landscape.

4 Landscaping Ideas for a Wonderful Backyard Retreat in Somers, NY

4 Landscaping Ideas for a Wonderful Backyard Retreat in Somers, NY

Having a resort feel in your Somers, NY, backyard can be one of the nicest treats you can give yourself and family. With the right landscape elements in place, a relaxed, five-star atmosphere is absolutely possible. To get you well on your way, here are four landscaping ideas for a wonderful backyard retreat.

5 Landscape Design Tips for Creating a Multi-Use Outdoor Space in Westchester County, NY

5 Landscape Design Tips for Creating a Multi-Use Outdoor Space in Westchester County, NY

While a landscape design that turns heads is every Westchester County, NY, homeowner’s dream, the main function of any backyard is still to facilitate outdoor living, entertainment and the enjoyment of the outdoors. Manzer’s Landscape Design and Development, Inc. can help you ensure that, in addition to making your landscape unique and stylish, it remains comfortable and practical.

Landscape Construction Ideas for Merging Softscape and Hardscape in Peekskill, NY

Landscape Construction Ideas for Merging Softscape and Hardscape in Peekskill, NY

Hardscapes add form and structure to your landscape, while softscapes bring in a touch of nature and lessen the severity of masonry elements. The best landscape design seamlessly combines both hard and soft features. Try these landscape construction ideas to merge your Peekskill, NY, softscapes and hardscapes.

5 Landscape Lighting Tips for Highlighting Trees and Shrubs in Your Peekskill Backyard

5 Landscape Lighting Tips for Highlighting Trees and Shrubs in Your Peekskill Backyard

Landscape lighting is important for many reasons. It increases safety, extends the hours you can use your yard and creates a gorgeous nighttime landscape. But there’s a lot more to lighting your property than just adding a few path lights. For the best overall effect, your Peekskill, NY, landscape lighting should also emphasize architectural elements and highlight plants, trees and shrubs.

6 Best Trees for your Landscape Design During the Cooler Months in Somers

6 Best Trees for your Landscape Design During the Cooler Months in Somers

When the weather cools and grays take over your Somers, NY, landscape, you’ll be glad to have added some unique trees that add visual interest and excitement to your yard. While evergreen trees add graceful elegance, height, color, and texture when nothing else blooms in winter, certain deciduous trees can be used to bridge the gap in fall with their bright red and yellow foliage.

Evergreen Tree Landscape Ideas for Westchester County

Evergreen Tree Landscape Ideas for Westchester County

At some point during the planning stage of your outdoor landscape project, you are going to need to think about trees. Why? Trees add intimacy and privacy to outdoor areas and function as the anchors for all other planted areas. Here we’ll look specifically at the addition of evergreen trees to your Westchester County home.

Plantings for Adding High Texture to Your Cortlandt Manor Landscape Design

Plantings for Adding High Texture to Your Cortlandt Manor Landscape Design

Texture is an important principle of Cortlandt Manor landscape design that can be manipulated to create a sense of contrast and visual interest. In addition to the natural stone and concrete of hardscape areas, variations of texture can be created by incorporating the natural details of plants.

Landscape Ideas for Adding Height to Your Westchester County Backyard

Landscape Ideas for Adding Height to Your Westchester County Backyard

Adding vertical elements to your landscape in Westchester County, NY, is a great way to ensure visual interest and create focal points that draw the eye. Such elements include trees, plants, trellises, gazebos, sculptures and other architectural structures. These structures often serve a practical function as well as a decorative one, providing shade, and in many scenarios, support for colorful climbing vines and flowers.