Outdoor Living

What is a Rain Garden?

What is a Rain Garden?

A rain garden is a shallow, vegetated depression designed to absorb and filter runoff from hard (impervious) surfaces like roofs, sidewalks, and driveways. Rain gardens are usually planted with colorful native plants and grasses.They not only provide an attractive addition to the yard, but also help to conserve water and protect our water quality. At…

Best Shade Trees

Best Shade Trees

This month our friends at Sunshine Landscaping discuss Shade Tree planting.   Hello friends, in this month’s blog we are going to talk about the trees that are best for shade. When it comes to choosing a shade tree, there are a lot of factors to consider.  The most important should be its toughness against…

Home Landscaping Tips

Home Landscaping Tips

January Landscaping Advice Happy New Year to all of our friends and family. It feels good getting back to business after the long holidays. To start the year off on the right foot, our friends at Sunshine Landscape Design would like to give some landscaping advice on what to do and not to do during the month…

Pool Design Ideas

It’s that time of year again… where the heat has us all ready to dive into a cool sparkling pool. Jenkins Waterscapes designs and builds all the Jenkins pool and water feature projects. The Jenkins family of companies adhere to the same high standards as Jenkins Custom Homes and, even more importantly, are backed by the…