Landscaping Installation & Maintenance Services
Decorative Mulch
Mulch is any material, organic or inorganic, spread thickly over the surface of the soil. Here's what thick mulch will do for your garden:.
- It will retain vital moisture in the soil.
- Mulching the soil keeps it cool in summer and warmer in winter.
- It prevents crusting of heavy soils.
- Thick mulch helps prevent weeds from growing (less work for you this summer!).
- Mulch slows or prevents water from running off slopes.
Decorative Rock
Using rocks in a landscaping design is overlooked more than any other yard decorating option. The idea sounds so boring, you’re probably thinking that it’s insane and dull. Although, when you are landscaping with rocks, more often than not your yard can look even better than a space filled with greenery that is more trouble than it's worth. Landscaping with rocks gives a natural look to your yard and provides a sense of order.
Drainage Solutions
Proper drainage is a critical part of your landscape.
We offer a full range of drainage options such as:
Downspout Piping & Drainage
French Drains
Dry Wells
Slotted / Perforated Drain
Catch Basins & Channel Drain
Landscape Bed Weeding
Routine landscape bed weeding and maintenance is a necessity to keeping beds weed free. Peter Doran Lawn & Landscaping offers several different bed weeding programs that consist of hand weeding and the use of chemical herbicides, so that you can choose the one that’s right for you. All debris generated from bed weeding can be hauled away.
Call today for a free estimate.
Landscape Edging
Landscape edging a great addition to yards
The installation of landscape edging is a great way to beautify a home. It also reduces trimming and keeps mulch in place to provide a good boundary between lawns and planting beds of flowers, shrubs and trees. Edging not only carries its practical benefits, but also its decorative appeal. Edging can accentuate any garden plot or flower bed. In a sense edging puts a frame or border around the picture of your garden. It draws the attention and highlights the chosen areas.
Edging is essential for the preservation of any paved patio, garden bedding, driveway and walkway. If edging is not used, you will find the sand base and hence your pavers will start to move and separate.
By securing the edges, you are securing your patio, driveway and walkway against the harsh elements of rain, snow and foot traffic. Edging helps maintain the appearance and quality of your landscaping.
Landscape edging is available in many different materials. Peter Doran lawn and landscaping can help you decide the product that is right for your landscape design and install it for you.
Most Common Edging Materials
There are three most common types of edging material used in the building and landscaping fields, they are bricks, stones and concrete pavers. These materials are very practical and also have decorative qualities.
A suggestion might be to match the content material to the edging material. This will compliment the look of your project!
1. Brick edging
You can use recycled brick or new bricks. It is important to use bricks that are suitable for weathering. You can also purchase pavers that are brick look-a-like’s. There is a large range of colors available.
2. Stone Edging
Stones have the ability to create many unique looks; formal to informal, depending on the type and texture of the stones that you choose. Stones are available in varying sizes, shapes and colors.
3. Concrete Edging Pavers
If you are edging a paved area, then using pre-cast concrete pavers for the edging will compliment the existing area. Edging pavers are easy to work with for they can be bought custom sized and are durable enough for the outdoors.
Edging Installation
There are two main methods for installing edging.
Horizontal
This means that the edging will be laid flat and flush with the soil level. This makes mowing the lawns around such borders much easier and it also creates a unique decorative statement.
Vertical
By laying the edging vertically you will only see the ends of the edging material, for a trench must be dug out as deep as the material itself is.
Outdoor Fireplace
There is nothing more enjoyable and relaxing than spending time outdoors with the people you care about. Summertime backyard barbecue's and pool parties are the norm when entertaining in the summer months. By adding an outdoor fireplace to your yard or patio you can add to the enjoyment you receive while spending time outside. Outdoor fireplaces make it possible for you to spend your evenings outside during the summer by adding the warm glow of a fire.
Outdoor fireplaces also can extend your outdoor season by allowing you to enjoy the outdoors long into the fall and winter months, especially here in Minnesota.
Paver Patios, Walks, and Drives
An Idea of Beauty
If it's time to upgrade and if beauty and aesthetics are on the agenda then the time is right for patio pavers. Concrete pavers offer a tremendous array of advantages over other types of patio decks and areas. Pavers are not only for patios, they can be used for driveways, walkways, and anything in between.
Patio Design
Using interlocking concrete pavers for your patio/walkway/drvieway design provides unlimited possibilities in design concepts. You can choose amongst many different and beautiful colors. You have your choices of types of pavers. Different pavers have different shapes, textures, surfaces, colors and provide any number of different design ideas, from very modern to evoking the look of ancient Roman streets or the quaint and exquisite beauty of Europe hundreds of years ago. Additionally there are a vast number of patterns in which to lay the pavers.
Paving Stone Advantages
Besides the beauty and aesthetics that patio pavers offer there is the factor of performance, durability and longevity and the fact that they are almost maintenance free.
One of the great advantages of patio pavers is that each paving stone is surrounded by a bed of special grade sand. This provides a very strong platform, and additionally provides just enough flexibility that seasonal temperature changes and the subsequent expansion and contraction of the paving stones does not cause cracks in the pavers or the design.
We are now offering composite pavers which are made from up to 95% recycled materials and the pavers themselves are 100% recycleable. With the expansion of the green industry, these are the most GREEN pavers on the market.
Ponds & Water Features
The terms "water feature" and "water garden" encompass a raft of possibilities, from front-yard lagoons to simple birdbaths. Bubbling brooks, artistic Asian spill fountains, wall fountains, fishponds—these are just a few of the options. Because a water feature is often a relatively permanent addition to your landscape and may affect your yard's aesthetics, use, and safety, it's important to plan it properly. Give our design department a call to discuss your water feature possibilities.
Peter Doran Lawn and Landscaping is an advocate and expert with Aquascape products, Rain Exchange, and Aquablox. Ask our landscaping department today for a brochure!
Retaining Walls
A retaining wall serves two purposes, a functional part and a beautifying part.
It is functional in the way it holds back earth. Retaining walls stabilize soil and rock from down slope movement or erosion and provide support for vertical or steep grade changes. Most of the home retaining walls are gravity walls that are basically a large mass of either natural garden stone, boulders, railroad ties or landscape blocks. The once popular inexpensive railroad tie wall has fallen out of favor due to environmental concerns. They also decompose with time. People that like the look of wood now go with 6x6 treated ties.