LANDSCAPING
LANDSCAPING
Designing functional and aesthetically pleasing outdoor space is one of the primary responsibilities of American Valley Landscaping. We provide exceptional service to both residential and business customers.
We provide the expertise to create your perfect outdoor living space and design it with you in mind!
SOD • EDGING • PLANTING
SOD
Sod is grass grown on a soil matrix, cut and rolled into squares or rectangles for easy transport and installation. Specialized machinery removes topsoil layer, along with the grass, ensuring root thickness. It's a tailor-made solution for a consistent lawn look, saving you from waiting for grass to grow from seed.
Sod can be used to repair a small area of lawn, golf course, or athletic field that has died and is used as a quicker alternative to re-growing a lawn from seed. Sod is also effective in increasing cooling, improving air and water quality, and assisting in flood prevention by draining water.
EDGING • ROCKS • MULCH
Using Landscape Edging, you can create defined areas for mulch, flower beds, plants and shrubs. Lawn edging can: Neatly accent, separate and define your lawn and garden landscaping. Help prevent the unwanted spread of grass. Easily create a raised layer of mulch, rocks or soil.
The category of landscaping rocks includes mexican beach pebbles, river rocks, cobble, boulders, and flagstones all available in a variety of sizes and colors. Landscape rocks are perfect for creating dry stream beds or water-wise landscapes. They are also perfect for adding focal points to your landscape design.
A garden mulch is any material spread on the soil surface to modify the environment where the plant is growing. The materials used can be natural or synthetic and can be used in any number of combinations within a single garden or around a homestead.
PLANTING
The primary purpose of any landscape strategy is to inform and guide any proposed development. The process of researching all these aspects results in a level of understanding. This understanding is capable of guiding development in the most effective manner possible.
Good landscaping should be just as functional as it is visually appealing. Signs of an effective landscaping job typically include clean walkways and overhanging trees that are free of any loose or damaged branches.
HARDSCAPING
HARDSCAPING
If you're looking to take your outdoor living space in Colorado to the next level, you've come to the right place! At American Valley Landscaping, we can install a variety of hardscape features on your property that can improve the beauty and functionality of your outdoor space. We can install patios, walkways, and outdoor steps made from high-quality, durable materials. We can even install a fire pit or outdoor fireplace to make your property cozier when the weather starts to get chilly. If you want an outdoor kitchen for cooking and hosting events, we have you covered with our outdoor kitchen installation service! Our full list of hardscape features that we can install includes:
Patios • Walkways & Driveways • Outdoor Steps • Retaining & Seating Walls • Fire Pits & Outdoor Fireplaces • Outdoor Kitchen • Pergolas, Pavillions & Gazebos
FIREPITS • PAVERS • FLAGSTONE
FIREPITS
In-ground Fire Pits: They are typically used for gas burning pits, but can be used for traditional wood fire pits as well. They are a dug out hole in the landscape lined with hardscape materials such as brick or stone, and are a much more modern-day look, albeit more open to the wind.
Not only are they a great way to add warmth to an outdoor (or indoor) space and to provide a focal point and a drawcard for people to gather around, but many double as a coffee table, bar table or even dining table.
PAVERS
Concrete pavers are composed of a cement and aggregate mixture that is molded, and then air-dried. Durable and weather-resistant, concrete pavers are ideal for several outdoor areas, such as driveways, patios, and walkways. Advantages: Come in various shapes, sizes and colors.
Paving is the art of laying down pavers in a particular pattern to create patios, driveways, pool decks, walkways, and other parts of outdoor living spaces and landscapes. Paving provides a flat surface to walk on, a pleasing aspect to the outdoor space, and is highly durable.
FLAGSTONE
Flagstone is a sedimentary rock usually made of sandstone bound together by minerals like silica, calcite, or iron ore. The flat stone is perfect as a paving stone and is often used for walkways, patios, and wall projects. The stone can also be cut and shaped in a variety of ways, allowing for unique patterns.
Flagstone is usually a form of a sandstone composed of feldspar and quartz and is arenaceous in grain size (0.16 mm – 2 mm in diameter). The material that binds flagstone is usually composed of silica, calcite, or iron oxide. The rock color usually comes from these cementing materials.
RETAINING WALLS • PLANTERS RAISED BEDS
RETAINING WALLS
A retaining wall is a structure that holds or retains soil behind it. There are many types of materials that can be used to create retaining walls like concrete blocks, poured concrete, treated timbers, rocks or boulders. Some are easy to use, others have a shorter life span, but all can retain soil.
What are retaining walls? Unlike garden walls, retaining walls are built higher than three feet tall. They are built for supporting outdoor structures or retaining a slope, and so are reinforced with geogrid and lip and backfilled with heavy, packed earth.
PLANTERS RAISED BEDS
Raised-bed gardening is a form of gardening in which the soil is raised above ground level and usually enclosed in some way. Raised bed structures can be made of wood, rock, concrete or other materials, and can be of any size or shape. The soil is usually enriched with compost.
Raised beds are often more productive than beds in the ground because the soil is less compacted, has better drainage, and warms earlier in the spring, meaning that plants will start to grow earlier in the season.
IRRIGATION
IRRIGATION
It's a carefully thought-out system that's designed to distribute the appropriate amount of water to specific zones of your landscape. So, let's talk about how a water irrigation system can transform your brown, dry yard into a green and healthy landscape.
Most homes have irrigation systems installed to provide supplemen- tal water to the landscape when rainfall is insufficient. There are important benefits to having an efficient irrigation system: • It provides a healthy landscape.
Goal. The main goal for irrigation is to provide plants with the proper amount of water at the best time. Adequate soil water will influence the entire growth process from seedbed preparation, germination, root growth, nutrient utilization, plant growth and regrowth, yield, and quality.
SPRINKLER SYSTEM • DRIP • WATER-SMART
SPRINKLER SYSTEM
A professionally installed sprinkler system will provide water for your lawn or plants on a schedule. There are two types of watering systems, overhead sprinklers and drip irrigation. Traditional sprinklers are widely used for lawns, while drip lines work well for garden beds.
An in-ground sprinkler system is a network of underground pipes connected to a water source, like a well or city water supply. The pipes are fitted with sprinkler heads, which pop up from the ground and release water onto your lawn when the system is turned on.
DRIP SYSTEM
Drip irrigation involves placing tubing with emitters on the ground along side the plants. The emitters slowly drip water into the soil at the root zone. Because moisture levels are kept at an optimal range, plant productivity and quality improve.
Drip irrigation is a low-pressure, low-volume lawn and garden watering system that delivers water to home landscapes using a drip, spray or stream. A drip irrigation system keeps roots moist, but not soaked, all while using less water than other irrigation techniques.
WATER-SMART SYSTEM
Smart irrigation controllers can track weather and only water when your grass needs it. You can control it through an app on your phone. Here's some additional videos to help you get your sprinkler system set up for your lawn and your budget.
Smart irrigation technology uses weather data or soil moisture data to determine the irrigation need of the landscape. Smart irrigation technology includes: These products maximize irrigation efficiency by reducing water waste, while maintaining plant health and quality.
LIGHTING
LIGHTING
What most homeowners call “landscape lighting,” we call “outdoor lighting.” To you, it likely means any type of lighting around the outside of your home, including lights shining on the house, the deck, a pool, a driveway, the porch, trees, and foliage.
To us, “landscape lighting” is any lighting used to illuminate your landscaping. This includes lights shining on flowers, trees, shrubbery, or even in your lawn. We might use more specific names under the landscape lighting header such as tree lighting, garden lighting and so on. Often path lighting can be included in this because we usually place path lights in the landscape near the sidewalk that needs illumination. So you see, it is more about the target of the light and less about the light itself.
Lighting that shines up on your home or buildings is considered “architectural” or “exterior home lighting” by us.
And lighting that illuminates your deck, pool, dock, patio or other outdoor living space is referred to by us using the name of the item it illuminates: deck lighting, pool lighting, dock lighting, patio lighting, etc.
There many lighting options to illuminate your space. Some of the common lighting seen is up lighting, path lighting, and cap lighting. Any of these options are sure to add a spectacular elegance to your outdoor spcae!