How to Create a Successful Hardscape
Landscape designers offer tips on creating and installing a successful hardscape design. By Rose Kennedy A great hardscaping project leads you through the landscape and provides a sense of timeless beauty. Image courtesy of Salsbury-Schweyer Hardscaping is an attractive feature and offers many appealing options, from a rustic stacked wall to a fully developed outdoor living room and kitchen. Once you've decided to create an outdoor space, you must plan carefully to meet your hardscaping goals. "Research really pays off, especially when you consider that a fixed object in the landscape is not going to move easily — and you don't want to put in a lot of effort and then have your materials or design fail within a couple of years," says Samuel Salsbury, a member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and partner with Sabrena Schweyer, APLD, in Salsbury-Schweyer, an Akron, Ohio-based landscape des...