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Generally when spoken about, the term landscaping is generally referred to the overall design and planning of a garden area. This is normally done as a complete project and is very close to interior decorating where you call in a professional landscaper and consult with them on your ideas and then they control the overall design and application of that design.

In an Urban situation the words being bandied around are functionality, arrangement and appearance.

Essentially landscaping is the complete planning of an outdoor space to achieve the same sort of functionality that we enjoy in the interior of our homes. Amenities like maintenance, privacy and comfort are some of the things that affect the overall concept. All aspects of the property are normally taken into consideration, and most of the time when someone landscapes, they are aware that all the aspects are included and things like drainage start to make huge influences to the overall final design.

Now don’t get me wrong, this is all great as you pretty much have a clean slate to work with and although the cards you are dealt are your starting tools or the fundamentals.

So while you are able to dig and Move Mountains if that is what you are inclined to do, you will always be restricted by some of the factors, like a rock outcrop on the property. Naturally those would be the very features that you would take pains to feature or hide. That is the beauty of doing landscaping from a beginning point of view.

A popular idea that has been around is the concept of creating “rooms” into the designed areas, so you would have a similar concept to the interior of your home repeated outside.