Dodds & Eder Insights

To ensure your planned landscape design incorporates all the necessary functional and aesthetic elements, it’s important to compile a list of both existing and desired components prior to beginning the project, and “check off all the boxes,” so to speak. 

Maintaining the aesthetics of beautiful landscape design is crucial for most homeowners. From weekly lawn maintenance and annual seeding to more seasonal services such as spring fertilizing, summer trimming, autumn cleanups and winter pruning, each property requires additional, ongoing services to continue to flourish.

Landscape design is an ever-evolving industry, as trends tend to come in and out of favor for varying periods of time. Of course, each property is unique, and as such, should be customized according to its inhabitants’ particular lifestyles and functional needs. That said, there remain a handful of options which have gained in popularity throughout the last few years.

Dodds & Eder has come to be highly regarded in the landscape design industry for its stunning installations and meticulous attention to detail in crafting them. At the forefront of this creative process is Tim Barry, award-winning Director of Landscape Design & Development.

While large expanses of lush green lawns and cascades of flowering trees and shrubbery may portray the ideal landscape for some, the fact is you don’t need an extensive property to create the backyard of your dreams.

The national trade association American Society of Landscape Architects defines landscape architecture as "the art and practice of designing the outdoor environment, especially as pertains to parks and gardens, coupled with buildings and roads."