Hardscape

The term “Hardscape” refers to the structural and foundational aspect of your landscape.  This is usually accomplished with the use of stone, wood and green materials such as composite lumber.

The Hardscaping services that Harkness Gardens offers include:

Masonry, such as patios, walls, pathways and driveways.

Carpentry such as wooden pergolas, decks, fences, walls, boarders, and boxes.

 
We like to install Hardscapes that still allow water to percolate down into the ground water table.  This is achieved by using water permeable materials such as decomposed granite, pervious concrete or by dry setting (no mortar) pavers and patio stone.

Softscape

The term “Softscape” usually refers to the living and changing aspect of your landscape, but can also include the moving and shaping of earth or the simple application of mulch.

Harkness Gardens offers full Softscaping services, which would span from soil preparation to proper planting methods and beyond.

Our Softscaping services include tree, shrub, groundcover and perennial plantings to specific designs.  For example, Accents, European-style gardens, Japanese-style gardens,  California Native gardens and Drought-Tolerant plantings.

Vegetable Gardens

Harkness Gardens can design and install functional and edible gardens which, for example, may consist of raised-bed kitchen gardens, or mixed planting designs that incorporate harvestable vegetables, flowers and herbs.  We can also install composting and rain-catchment systems to help make your garden self-sustainable. 

Water-Wise Lawn Installation

We can install small or large lawns.  Grass varieties available today mean that even drought-tolerant lawns are as easy as rolling out sod.  Think that's cool?  Consider a lawn that you only mow once a year!

Irrigation Systems

We are irrigation specialists and can install fully automated and programmable conventional (pop-up sprayers) and micro-irrigation (drip lines, micro-sprayers) systems.

Harkness Gardens offers full maintenance services to insure your landscape and all of its many aspects remain beautiful and functional.  Our maintenance program involves a periodic schedule of selective pruning, organic fertilizer amendments, composting, Integrated Pest Management and mulching.  Your landscape will look masterfully maintained and have a much more positive impact on the environment.