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7 Garden Styles To Consider For Your Landscape Design

When you employ landscaped designers to plan and create a new garden, you could be in one of three scenarios with regard to those plans. The first is that you have no idea what you want or what is possible. In this case, you will rely heavily on your landscape designer to present an array of options and possibilities and to even make the choice for you with regards to your new garden’s style.

The second scenario is that you may have some ideas and preferences but need a landscape designer to bring them together into a feasible plan that can be implemented. Finally, some will know exactly what they want down to every detail, but would still like a professional landscape design architect or designer to create the plan.

If you are just setting out on the journey towards your landscaped garden, and are basically on square one, then what can help your progress is knowing what styles of gardens are possible. Although each landscaped design will be different, within them there will be styles that prevail and upon which the individual garden will be based. There are many garden styles to choose from, but to get you started, here are 7 of the most popular.

Modern

For those who might have a contemporary home or who simply prefer their garden to look like it was created in the 21st century, not the 19th, then this is the style for you. Modern designs will include features that are square or rectangular, sober coloured (greys, whites), will certainly have modern lighting and the most likely materials will include composites, concrete, and steel.

Mediterranean

With some European countries like France and Italy famous around the world for their gardens, it is little wonder that the Mediterranean style is highly popular. The sorts of plants included are likely to be exotic with lots of colours whilst typical features include small ponds or fountains with classic designs such as arches, pillars, and tiles.

7 Tips To Ensure Everyone Stays Safe Around Your Concrete Pool

Having a concrete pool on your property can bring you many advantages such as adding value, and the no small matter of you and your family having fun in that pool. However, concrete pools also means that you have a responsibility to ensure that anyone who is in or near your pool is safe at all times.

We are not saying that you need to go to lifeguard school, although it would not do you any harm, but, instead, you can implement a number of safety measures and protocols so that anyone using the pool, be that friends or family, do not come to harm. Here are those safety measures:

#1 Install A Safety Fence Around The Pool

There has been many a tragedy caused by children managing to get onto a property that was not their own home, entering a pool, and sadly getting into trouble with no one around to help them, or even realising they were there  This is why we suggest that you install fencing or some other kind of barrier around your pool area, or your property as a whole.

#2 Automatic Safety Shutters

Having safety shutters that close across the top of the pool means that no adult, child, or even a pet can gain access to the pool when there is nobody to supervise them. These normally operate by simply pressing a button, and ideally one which incorporates a key switch so that no one can open the shutters without your knowledge.