Kevin has deep roots in the Chicagoland area, growing up in Plainfield and now residing in Naperville. He holds a degree in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Illinois and serves on the board for the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association (ILCA). Since KD's inception in 1998, Kevin has loved creating outdoor environments to match the lifestyles of thousands of customers. In his spare time, you can find him spending time on the water with his wife, daughter, son, and labradoodle.
Trees stand tall and proud in your Chicagoland home landscape. The gleam green in the summer months, leaving dancing in the wind and casting great shade during sunny, warm days.
As the sun sets, trees become dark along with the rest of your landscape. And your once-welcoming landscape can become spooky. On top of that, you lose some valuable daylight enjoyment time outdoors.
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Pergolas have been accents in Chicagoland landscapes for years. While they have modern touches today, they’ve actually been around since 1400 B.C., when a garden entrance pergola adorned an Egyptian high court official’s property.
Pergolas have stood the test of time because they do so much for your landscape. They provide elegant shade to enhance your time outdoors, as well as create places for dining, entertainment, growing climbing plants, enjoying privacy, and breaking up a large space.
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Your indoor rooms are fairly easy to figure out.
Your kitchen is used for preparing food, your dining room for eating dinner with your family, your bathroom for cleaning and bathing, and your bedroom for rest and sleep. How you decorate and furnish these rooms follows their natural identities.
But your outdoor space is more of an open palette. It must be defined by what you want to do out there. Will you cook outside? Will you eat outside? Will you relax outside? Will you entertain outside? How many people will you regularly welcome into your outdoor space?
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If you really want to enjoy nonstop creativity, color, and interest throughout the seasons, container gardens can help.
Think about it. They can be changed up regularly, are easy enough to move around for a fresh look, and add instant height, elegance, and intrigue to any spot.
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A patio is at the heart of many Greater Chicago area backyards.
It’s where everyone gathers. If you have a pool, you take snack breaks at your patio. If you have an outdoor kitchen, you dine on your patio. If you have a garden to stroll in, you come back to sit, reflect, and relax on your patio.
This is why proper patio planning is key. After all, you want a patio that can accommodate all of your activities, as well as the regular size of your party.
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Your landscape is your refuge. It’s a place to escape to after long days where you can just take a deep breath and enjoy the scenery and sounds of birds chirping. You might even find yourself choosing to have your meal outdoors because you crave the freshly grilled flavor your outdoor kitchen produces, and you long to dine al fresco.
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*While this article offers helpful landscaping tips for residential properties, we now specialize exclusively in commercial landscaping services. If you manage a commercial property or HOA, see how we can enhance your landscape here.
Sure, a front yard walkway can feel like one of the least exciting aspects of designing your landscape. After all, maybe you’re more excited to expand your outdoor kitchen in the back.
Even though front walkway landscaping may not be at the forefront of your mind as you explore landscaping ideas, it’s not something to ignore. Choosing to landscape around your front walkway or install a professionally designed front walkway can transform your front yard.
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*While this article offers helpful landscaping tips for residential properties, we now specialize exclusively in commercial landscaping services. If you manage a commercial property or HOA, see how we can enhance your landscape here.
Container planting is meant to be fun, adding color and focal points to your patio or outdoor kitchen in Greater Chicago.
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When you plan to invest in a new patio, you likely want something fresh that doesn't look like every other patio in your Greater Chicago neighborhood.
While searching for something unique, you might not know what’s available or possible. And as you search for patio design ideas, you’re likely thinking a lot about color. What color will pop? What color will blend? What color will be something you’re going to enjoy looking at in your backyard for years to come?
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Container gardening tops the list of ideas for sprucing up Greater Chicago home landscapes.
They make an immediate impact no matter where you place them. You can flank your front door with two elegant urns popping with color and boosting with elegance or you can add fun and style to your back patio, deck, near your pool area, under your pergola or anywhere else you’d like a little pizzazz and punch in your landscape.
Container gardening may look easy since the results are neat, portable gardens. You might think it’s a service you can do throughout the year. However, proper plant selection, placement, and arrangement are essential in creating significant, eye-catching container plantings. And this can certainly be tricky to master.
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