Landscape and Hardscape Design:
Softscaping and Your Outdoor Living Space Ohio Style

The demands of Ohio weather, and in particular the weather on what Ohio residents refer to as the “Northcoast,” that part of Ohio from Toledo to Cleveland and east to Ashtabula directly adjacent to Lake Erie, can be brutal and may affect your on your plants’ survival.

Matching just the right landscape and hardscape design elements with the demands of Ohio weather will yield an outdoor living space both beautiful and usable for years to come.

Many landscaping professionals refer to the various plants that make up a landscape design as softscaping. The softscaping makes up the living components of your landscape, hardscape, and/or water feature designs.

While landscape and hardscape design professionals may use the jargo of the profession, most people simply refer to them as “plants.“

Softscaping is also a crucial component in almost every hardscape design, as plants are often used for contrast and to soften the overall presentation. Softscaping is often an integral design element in the creation of many water features as well.

Softscaping is used for everything from a pondless waterfalls and water fountains to a stepdown streams and full-featured ponds. As with softscaping elements for landscape and hardscape design projects, the proper selection of plants, both aquatic and those used to compliment the overall design of the water feature, are crucial for the overall water feature project’s success.

Ohio summers can be hot and dry and Ohio winters can be cold and windy, particularly along the snow belt East of Cleveland!

In other words, Ohio weather can be unforgiving when it comes to the softscaping elements incorporated into your outdoor living space. Selecting just the right plants (i.e., flowers, plants, trees, shrubs, etc) takes experience and extensive knowledge of not only the Ohio climate but which plants are best suited for Ohio and for the particular landscape, hardscape, or water feature design created.

Kanary’s Landscaping has been serving Ohio residents for more than 40 years. Rich Kanary and is team know, as well as anyone in the landscaping business serving Ohio, which flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees to incorparate into your landscape design, hardscape design, and/or water feature project.

Kanary’s Landscaping has over 4 decades of experience, and over 75 years of collective landscape design team experience, selecting just the right softscaping elements to withstand the demands of the Ohio weather and offer beauty season after season, year after year for hundreds of clients.

Contact Rich Kanary Today!

Kanary’s Landscaping
Serving Ohio for more than 40 years!
Sheffield, Ohio 44054
440-949-2417
KanarysLandscaping@gmail.com