alder pool & landscape co.
pool & landscape architecture
Expertise and Experience: Alderland is a proven leader in this field and has worked on numerous luxury projects, honing our skills and accumulating valuable knowledge. We understand the intricacies of high-end design, materials, and construction techniques, ensuring a superior end result.
Innovative and Customized Designs: As a top designer we stay current with the latest trends and technologies in landscape and pool design. Alderland can create unique, cutting-edge concepts tailored to your specific property and preferences, resulting in a truly one-of-a-kind outdoor living space.
Quality Craftsmanship and Materials: As an established leader in high-end design, our construction team has access to premium materials and our work speaks for its self. This ensures that every aspect of your project, from hardscaping to plantings, to pool features, is executed to the highest standards of quality.
Comprehensive Project Management: As experienced professionals we can oversee all aspects of your project, from initial concept to final implementation. This includes coordinating with our sub-contractors, obtaining your necessary permits, and ensuring that the project stays on schedule and within budget.
Increased Property Value: A well-designed and expertly executed landscape and pool can significantly enhance your property's value. By working with a proven leader, you're making an investment that not only improves your quality of life, but also increases your home's resale value in the future.
These reasons highlight why, when choosing a proven leader like Alderland, you can expect a high-end residential landscape and swimming pool design. Working with a reputable and well established contractor can lead to superior results and a more satisfying overall experience as well.
5 reasons to use a proven leader in high-end residential landscape and swimming pool design:
Helping guide our clients
Mastery of Classical Symmetry: Our firm has extensive experience in creating meticulously balanced formal gardens. We excel in designing landscapes with perfect symmetry, incorporating precisely aligned pathways, mirrored planting schemes, and centrally positioned focal points. Our designs showcase a keen understanding of classical proportions and geometric patterns, resulting in gardens that exude elegance and timeless beauty.
Expertise in Controlled Nature: We have consistently demonstrated our proficiency in shaping nature to achieve formal perfection. Our portfolio includes numerous examples of expertly manicured hedges, precisely trimmed topiaries, and immaculately maintained parterres. We skillfully integrate architectural elements like fountains, statuary, and formal water features to create structured, orderly landscapes that reflect the highest standards of formal garden design.
Conceptual philosophy, of formal landscape designs
Symmetry and Balance: Formal landscape design places a strong emphasis on symmetry and balance. This principle involves creating mirror-image layouts on either side of a central axis, resulting in a sense of order and harmony. Elements are carefully placed to achieve visual equilibrium, often using paired planting features, walkways, and water features.
Geometric Patterns: The use of geometric shapes and patterns is fundamental to formal landscape design. Floating squares configured in the hardscape are very popular right now as a secondary path in and around the front and backyards. This includes straight lines, perfect circles, squares, and other regular shapes. These geometric elements are often repeated throughout the design to create a sense of unity and structure. Examples include precisely trimmed hedges forming geometric shapes, circular flower beds, or rectangular lawns.
Controlled Nature: Formal landscape design seeks to impose order on nature. This philosophy emphasizes human control over the natural world, resulting in carefully manicured and meticulously maintained landscapes. Plants are often pruned into specific hedges, lawns are kept immaculately groomed, like the synthtic lawn, no need to continually manage, these lawns work very well in formal gardens.
Hierarchy and Focal Points: This concept involves creating a clear visual hierarchy within the landscape. Central features or focal points are strategically placed to draw the eye and guide movement through the space. These might include, fountains, or architectural elements like speciman trees Circled with oen to two selections of plant material. The design typically radiates outward from these focal points, with secondary and tertiary elements arranged in decreasing order of importance.
Classical Inspiration: Formal landscape design often draws inspiration from classical and Renaissance gardens. In resent years swimming pools have made a noticable style shift towards a more formal design for a couple of reasons the principal is the auto-cover pool which needs to be in a rectangle configuration to function, it make sense that the swimming pool is retangle so should the patio around the pool do the same, aluminum pergolas have also come into favor making for a more modern look.
These principles of formal landscape design create spaces that exude elegance, order, and a sense of human mastery over nature. While they can be adapted to various scales, they are particularly suited where a sense of majesty and formality is desired. For large and small landscapes are enjoyed.
Example of a design to construction. By Alderland with the client’s review:
“Wow! Its been 1 year and we love our new backyard more than ever. Don spent the time to get to know us, how we planned on using the yard and helped guide us to exactly what we wanted. It truly is our dream backyard and a beautiful extension of our house. Don and his team were extremely professional and a joy to work with. If you are looking to transform your backyard into the space of your dreams, contact Don at Alder Group!”
-Alder Client
5 main points explaining a Natural Backyard Garden:
Native Plant Selection: A natural backyard garden focuses on incorporating native plants that are well-suited to the local climate and soil conditions. This creates a landscape that requires as much maintenance as the formals, natural gardens still require water and fertilizers to keep them at there best, these garden look their best in the spring when everything is in bloom.
Layered Planting Design: Natural gardens utilize a layered approach to planting, mimicking the different vertical strata found in native plant communities. This includes ground covers, perennials, shrubs, and trees arranged in a way that provides visual interest throughout the seasons.
Habitat Creation: The natural backyard garden is designed to create a peaeful and relaxing vib. This involves incorporating features like nectar-rich flowering plants, dense shrub plantings for cover, and water sources like birdbaths or small ponds. Swimming pools are a large part in this design, and has become the most important feature in the backyard.
Organic Maintenance: Maintenance of a natural backyard garden focuses on organic, low-impact practices. This can include mulching with locally sourced materials, composting garden waste, and limiting or eliminating the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in favor of natural, environmentally-friendly alternatives.
Most cities in California have gone to this Sustainable Water Management idea: Water conservation is a key consideration in natural backyard garden design. Strategies may include rain gardens, permeable hardscaping, and the selection of drought-tolerant plant species to reduce the need for supplemental irrigation, especially during drier periods.
By incorporating these principles, a natural backyard garden can provide a beautiful, low-maintenance outdoor space that supports local ecosystems, conserves natural resources, and creates a serene, nature-inspired environment for the homeowner to enjoy.
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