Japanse Garden Landscape Design and Architecture
Japanese Garden Landscape Design and Architecture
There is a lot to learn from the well-developed Japanese Garden traditions, including the idea of a garden is a living environment to experience. Our Japanese garden designers use your windows as a canvas to open up your home into breathtaking outdoor spaces.
Your Windows as a Canvas
At the heart of Hanselman Landscape and Garden’s mission is the desire to learn from the best garden builders in the world. From the choice of plant material to the placement of rocks and pathways, Japanese gardens are designed to provide rest for the soul and the eyes by eliminating loud, competing elements and incorporating components that flow together naturally and harmoniously.
Our Japanese garden designs are all thoughtfully crafted by designers and unique to your goals, preferences, and space. Whatever your vision and desires, our team can help make them a reality in your space.
Garden Design Experts
Our Japanese garden landscape designers are skilled in the construction and execution of your design needs. They are master craftsmen, familiar with natural materials and organic designs. The effort we put into the details shows our commitment to quality.
From protecting your yard with mats to moving equipment through getting the surfaces “just so”, you will enjoy years of trouble-free enjoyment of your new outdoor living space.
As our client, you will benefit from our experience and perspective as we design, build, maintain, and shape a unique setting for your home.
Features and More
For many of our designs, we utilize different materials, including stones, gravel, water, plant materials, natural elements, and more. Our design choices are made to create a sense of space that doesn’t overwhelm the entire view and feels expansive.
Regardless of your design preferences and inspiration, working with Hanselman means you will receive a highly intentional garden that you will love.
Japanese Garden Designed and Installed
Our Japanese Garden Design Process
Our garden design process covers all aspects of your project and ensures your goals and vision are met. Whether you’re seeking a comprehensive garden design for your residence or simply want to add child-friendly spaces to your existing garden, we will translate your needs and ideas into beautifully crafted designs.
Explore
We begin by listening to your goals, inspirations, and ideas. Together, we’ll create a delightful outdoor garden for your little ones to enjoy.
Design
Our goal is to create beautiful areas that welcome your family outside. We can provide a 3-D visualization that gives greater clarity, especially if you are incorporating custom landscape and hardscape designs. visualization that gives greater clarity to your vision for custom landscape and hardscape designs.
Build
After the design is approved, most clients employ our contracting services to help them render their dream into reality. Our team of highly-skilled craftsmen and seasoned masons know how to care for your property even while the work is in progress.
Enjoy
As we design, build, maintain, and shape a unique setting for your home and family, the effort we put into the details will reflect our team’s commitment to quality. Your reward will be the daily joys and the memories you make as you experience and steward your own little corner of creation as a family.
Testimonials
What surprised us most was how much more we love our home since Hanselman Landscape began working here! The porch, patio, pool and garden together create a refreshing new feeling in what used to be a boring, flat backyard. In addition to the beautiful new backyard oasis they created, they are here regularly to care for our plants, turning existing shrubs that we thought were worthless into beautiful, valuable specimens.
Our needs were to have as much privacy as possible from neighboring homes. The landscape, because of the size of the trees, does that now. Everything was done to perfection. This was the first time in a while (even with building a new home) that we gave the job to someone and never, ever had to go over again and again what was to be done. It was a real pleasure to have your services.
Words do not serve well to express the sense of serenity and pleasure which your fine work evokes. On returning home from my difficult duties this week, this special place which you have created for us provided a welcome respite. I would liken the feeling to that of walking alone through a great museum.
I can’t even put into words how much I love my new yard. Hanselman Landscape did an outstanding job–changing an ugly piece of land into a serene and beautiful garden. Everything is just perfect. I most enjoy the woodland theme and the variety of textures and colors in the new plants. The workmanship of Hanselman Landscape’s employees is of the highest quality, and the customer service is courteous and professional.
Hanselman Landscape has helped us re-landscape our property over the past 3 years. James has a way of guiding you through your own garden, taking in the vantage points, and uncovering your vision (even though you didn’t know you had one)!
We liked the way James (Hanselman) explained and introduced the suggested plantings, actually showing us leaf samples. We needed and appreciated his guidance on how we can nurture and maintain the plants in the future. Thanks for adding to our enjoyment of our home with your creative landscaping. We are definitely pleased to have had your expertise.
A Japanese Garden – One Gardener’s Definition
Japanese gardens weave wild horticultural beauty with elemental materials into the fabric of life on a human scale in surprisingly diverse applications. To visit gardens in Japan is to experience exceptional grace in cultivated living spaces; these gardens are treasured components of private residences and public places. As art, the Japanese garden expresses a poet’s longing for natural scenes with a painter’s framing and presentation of view. As function, the Japanese garden is space for interaction with the natural environment within the concept of home. As horticulture, plants are carefully selected and pruned to serve the proscribed vision.
The Japanese garden culture and aesthetic taste have been nurtured by centuries of deliberate value and support. The determination to fund and do the hard work of garden care makes this tradition exceptional. The resulting refined system of garden living can improve homes and communities throughout the world as naturally as in its country of origin.
~ Contributed by James Hanselman, Gardener (& Japanese Garden Designer)
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Experience the Difference of Hanselman Landscape and Gardens
Founded in 1985, Hanselman Landscape & Gardens designs, builds, and nurtures a wide variety of gardens in both private and corporate settings. From our headquarters in Manheim, Pennsylvania, we serve clients throughout the region, including Philadelphia’s Main Line — and as far away as Cambridge, Massachusetts. We also cultivate unique specimen plants, which we make available to discriminating gardeners and architects.