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Your Garden Oasis – Realizing The Dream (Part 3)

Imagine the ultimate retreat in your own backyard: A beautiful custom swimming pool perfectly paired with a peaceful, low-maintenance landscape…a year ’round oasis just outside your windows! This post will address the next step in the realization of your dreams for a garden oasis.

Step 3: Craft the Garden

At Hanselman Landscape, our work is a lasting reflection of who we are and what we believe. When we design and build a waterfall, fireplace, seating wall, or slide for your swimming pool landscape, we do so with lasting value and beauty in mind. For structural items, we recommend enduring surfaces and foundations. Our clients tell us how delighted they are to find that the living portions of their gardens genuinely improve over time. Rather than deteriorating due to poor planning and lack of care, with our touch, your pool landscape will improve with age as plants mature.

The Hanselman Landscape crew members are craftsmen who skillfully combine artistry and solid workmanship into the garden structures they build. Our crews include experts in boulder placement, construction, plumbing, and lighting to support our overall garden design, build, and maintenance services. We build poolside structures that bring enduring enjoyment to our clients. From seating walls that maximize pool patio space to water slides nestled in naturally landscaped hills, each stone is thoughtfully placed so as to gracefully obscure “the hand of man.”

Another way to add elegance and enjoyment to your pool environment is through well-positioned lighting. As daylight fades, lighting adds to the ambiance of your pool landscape while increasing safety by illuminating walkways and steps. We use high-quality, heavy-duty bronze fixtures and soldered wire connections for lighting installations, providing enduring value and long-term reliability.

Personal Note: Our daily garden walks are helping James and me enjoy and (hopefully) extend our days. This winter, well-sited landscape lighting made after-dark walks possible and de-“light”-ful!

Gladly shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& grateful beneficiary of HL expertise)

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The Glories of May

“How beautiful are the rosy footsteps of May! Less showery and changeful than April, and not so heated and burdensome as June, she stands like a gentle mediator between the two… With her soft blue eye, and her mild but radiant countenance, she comes like an angel of light among men… She scatters in her path the sweetest flowers of nature, and everywhere breathes fragrance and joyousness. The birds of the air are carolling her welcome, and even the mute beasts of the field seem happier at her coming.”

~ Eliza Cook (Journal entry, May, 1850)

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Your Garden Oasis – Realizing the Dream (Part 2)

Imagine the ultimate retreat in your own backyard: A beautiful custom swimming pool perfectly paired with a peaceful, low-maintenance landscape…a year ’round oasis just outside your windows! This post will address the next step in the realization of your dreams for a garden oasis.

Step 2: Design the Space

After seeking to understand your thoughts and goals, we carefully survey your project site to understand how water flows and to record accurate dimensions that ensure the proposed changes will fit and function well.

Using computer-aided design (CAD), a scaled overhead view of the landscape is developed, communicating the initial design concepts on paper. The CAD drawing accurately depicts grading changes, plant placement, and an overview of how your landscape will change to incorporate your dreams. Often, we have walked with potential clients through our nursery and home garden to give them an idea of what can be.

Personal note: I am vision-impaired, by which I mean that, while I can see clearly the physical things that exist in front of me, I have a very difficult time mentally grasping the physical possibilities even when described in great detail. I find images essential, and greatly appreciate the clarity our visualization options bring to the decision-making process.

Contributed by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& grateful for visual presentation options)

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May

“May…The very word makes the heart leap. Birds, Buds, Blossoms, Beauty! Break away from every bondage of circumstance or low spirits and go out into the sunshine. Answer back the bird-note in your heart, kiss your finger tips to every new blossom, and be a part of the spring.”

~Eva D. Kellogg, “May,” 1902
Shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& May reveler!)

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Your Garden Oasis – Realizing the Dream (Part 1)

Imagine the ultimate retreat in your own backyard: A beautiful custom swimming pool perfectly paired with a peaceful, low-maintenance landscape…a year ’round oasis just outside your windows! This post will address the first step in the realization of your dreams for a garden oasis.

Step One: Establish a Partnership

To create a pool garden that fits naturally in your space and fulfill your dreams first requires finding a partner who values creative vision, thoughtful planning, and meticulous craftsmanship in every aspect of the project.

The Hanselman Landscape dream-building process begins when you arrange a free consultation with us so that we might better understand you, your goals, and your parameters. If you decide to partner with us to design and build your outdoor oasis, we will work with you to develop a vision and create a unique design for your pool and the surrounding landscape. Our many years of experience, delighted clients, and premium projects stand behind our words.

We invite you to view our work on our website and speak with one of our friendly team members to begin a conversation about your dreams for an oasis of serenity and beauty outside your home.

Shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& grateful partner)

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April Days

“There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April… The sun trembles in his own soft rays… The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday… though there is warmth enough for a sense of luxury, there is coolness enough for exertion.” ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American minister, author, abolitionist and soldier; 1883 – 1911)

Gladly shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& avid April fan!)