Balancing Your New England Landscape Design with Hardscapes and Softscapes

Balancing Your New England Landscape Design with Hardscapes and Softscapes

Whether rustic or contemporary, minimal or intricate, all beautiful landscape designs have one thing in common: a well-balanced combination of hardscape and softscape. Hardscape consists of the solid, heavy, unchanging parts of a landscape, such as stone paths, retaining walls, gravel and patios, while softscape describes the living, botanical elements of a landscape, including plants,…