Articles
Landscape Design
- Container Gardens Enhance Even the Smallest of Outdoor Spaces
- Rock Gardens Add Low-Maintenance Beauty to Your Northern Virginia Landscape
- How to Augment Your Centreville, Potomac, or Woodbridge Landscape with Stone Walls
- Create Usable Space with a Multi-Level Landscape
- Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Designing Your Landscape
- Extending Spring Cleanup to Your Northern Virginia Property
- Importance of Erosion Landscaping and Drainage In Residential Northern Virginia
- Retaining Walls Both an Aesthetic and Functional Landscape Feature
- Different Elements in Your Landscape Add Interest
Maintenance
Ponds and Water Features
- What is a Formal Water Feature and How Can One Complement Your Landscape?
- Types of Water Plants for Your Northern Virginia Pond
- Adding a Pond or Water Feature To Your Northern Virginia Property
- Bring Life To Your Northern Virginia Pond or Water Feature
- Issues Surrounding Your Northern Virginia Pond or Water Feature
Lighting, Ornaments and Materials
- Choosing the Right Material for Your Outdoor Planters
- Shedding Some Light on Outdoor Lighting
- Incorporating Garden Ornaments in Your Landscape
- The Benefits of Using River Rock in Your Northern Virginia Landscape
Livestock and Wildlife
All About Plants
- Topiary for Beginners
- Adding Color to Your Landscape
- Choosing the Right Plants for Pool-Side Landscaping
- Starting Your First Northern Virginia Vegetable Garden
- The Benefits of “Greenscaping” Your Northern Virginia or Maryland Yard
- What Are Native Plants and Why Are They Important?
Tips
Decks and Patios
Associations & Directories
DC · MD · VA Chapter Association of Professional Landscape Designers
www.dcmdva-apld.org/
Garden Scout
www.gardenscout.com
Better Business Bureau – Washington, DC Chapter
www.dc.bbb.org/
South Fairfax Chamber of Commerce
www.southfairfaxchamber.org/
Suppliers and Partners
McLean Electric
McLean, VA
www.mcleanelectricco.com/
Halco Fence
Bristow, VA
www.halcofence.com
Fisher Group
Design Build Construction
Annandale, VA
www.designbuildrenovate.com
Absolute Kitchens
Kitchen Remodeling
Tyson’s Corner, VA
www.absolute-kitchens.com/
Commonwealth Home Remodelers
Vienna, VA
www.commonwealthhome.com
Wilcoxin Pool Construction
Rockville, MD
www.wilcoxonconst.com/
Nicolock Patio Pavers
www.nicolock.com/
The Care of Trees
Alexandria, VA
www.thecareoftrees.com/
Outdoor Lighting Solutions
Herndon, VA
www.outdoorlightingsolutions.com
What is a Formal Water Feature and How Can One Complement Your Landscape?
Thinking of adding a water feature to your Haymarket, Manassas, or Potomac landscape? When considering adding a water feature to your yard or garden, you must first examine your landscaping style and explore what kind of water feature will suit, complement, and enhance your space.
If you prefer straight lines and symmetrical design, consider adding a formal water feature to your landscape. Characterized by straight edges and geometric shapes, formal water features are clean, simple, and straight-lined.
Formal water gardens draw the eye to focal points such as water features or sculpture, and are commonly accented with topiaries, stone fountains, and neatly-planted rows of perennials or boxwood. Formal water features range from reflecting pools to rectangular displays or water lilies or papyrus. Plants are used as ornaments, rather than the central focus of the formal feature. However, if you’d like to soften the geometric lines of a formal water feature, consider adding loose, flowing plants or staggered plant sizes to relax the look of the water feature.
For more information on formal water features and how they can augment your Washington DC, Northern Virginia or Maryland landscape, contact Lost Creek Landscapes. Lost Creek Landscapes provides a full suite of landscaping and hardscaping services in such areas as Vienna, Chevy Chase, and Middleburg, and is fully licensed and insured throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC.