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 Rooftop Garden Design and Installation

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A LIVING OASIS ON YOUR ROOFTOP

Enliven a barren view with a sustainable rooftop garden, where you can enjoy trees, shrubs and flowers or a harvest of vegetables away from the busy street.  Rooftop gardens are elevated courtyard gardens. They feel more open than street-level courtyard gardens, as they achieve privacy with lower boundaries.  Explore your rooftop garden design options with our team of designers and craftsmen familiar with the unique challenges of rooftop gardening.

In a culture that increasingly values and requires environmental stewardship, a rooftop garden is an attractive and feasible option, especially where green space is limited or non-existent at the ground level.

A PLACE OF ESCAPE

In the high-pressured, manufactured, and often dissonant elements of city living, a space of verdant growth on a roof offers an opportunity for city dwellers to relax and be refreshed in the presence and slower pace of green-growing things.

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A PLACE TO NURTURE

Rooftop gardens offer the therapeutic delights of caring for living plants, planting and harvesting home-grown produce, and providing safe, healthy options for the family table.

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A PLACE FOR YOU

As with any garden we build, we will customize the design to maximize available space and fulfill your requirements, including constructing specialized growing containers for herbs, vegetables, and fruit-bearing or ornamental shrubs and trees.

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ROOFTOP GARDEN DESIGN

If you want to enjoy living plants in challenging places, such as on decks and rooftops, Hanselman Landscape and Gardens can help.  

  • We are experienced in growing large trees and shrubs in containers at our nursery in Manheim, PA.  These plants have the same watering, fertilization and root care requirements when placed in rooftop gardens or in planters on decks.
  • We partner with your architect and structural engineer to responsibly prepare your rooftop terrace garden’s safety and rainwater management.
  • We design and construct rooftop planting containers and utilize special permeable paving solutions to keep your plants (and feet) happy.
  • We test and fertilize your planting mix to the requirements of each type of plant.
  • We install and maintain drip irrigation systems to carefully manage the water needs of your living plants
  • We help you care for your garden through the years by pruning and soil or pest management.

We also help clients enjoy vegetable garden installation or specialized flower garden installation by designing walkway access and thorough soil preparation in any location.

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Our Garden Design Process

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Explore

Share your goals, ideas, and project budget and we will begin to survey and plan your garden

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Design

We will consider all your primary view perspectives, both inside and out as we design your garden

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Build

Your garden dream will begin to take shape at the hands of our highly skilled craftsmen and landscapers

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Enjoy

Every project ends with the reward of experiencing the joyful stewardship of your little piece of creation

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ROOFTOP GARDENS: DESIGNED AND INSTALLED

If you want to enjoy living plants in challenging places, such as on decks and rooftops, Hanselman Landscape and Gardens can help. 

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We carefully craft plants to enrich your space and fit to your specific spacing needs
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We test and fertilize your planting mix to the requirements of each type of plant
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We are experienced in growing large trees and shrubs that thrive in a variety of conditions including rooftop gardens or in planters on decks
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Testimonials

David And Jan 1720194040445

What surprised us most was how much more we love our home since Hanselman Landscape began working here! 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.

David and Jan , Lancaster, PA
Matthew And Julie 1720194119552

Our needs were to have as much privacy as possible from neighboring homes. 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.

Michael H. , Hummelstown, PA
Tony 1720193797447

Words do not serve well to express the sense of serenity and pleasure which your fine work evokes. I would liken the feeling to that of walking alone through a great museum.

Tony , Camp Hill, PA
Amy 1720193998139

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. The workmanship of Hanselman Landscape’s employees is of the highest quality.

Amy , Enola, PA
Michael 1720193089530

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)!

Michael and Sonja , Lititz, PA
Will And Janice 1720193916353

We liked the way James (Hanselman) explained and introduced the suggested plantings, actually showing us leaf samples. We needed and appreciated his guidance. Thanks for adding to our enjoyment of our home with your creative landscaping.

Will and Janice , New Holland, PA

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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.

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