Landscape Design/Garden Design

A landscape is simply an outdoor environment, whether designed by nature or by professionals. It is the selection and controlled arrangement of plants and other hardscape elements for the beautification of buildings and parks etc.

A properly designed and planned landscape site increases its usefulness, beauty, ecological, social, economic, and aesthetic values. Therefore, a landscape design is required to make the best use of available space in farmhouses, parks, buildings, educational institutes, and other government and private institutions. Proper landscaping should have utility as well as beauty. In the planning of site design, walkways, driveways, pergolas, gazebos, water features like fountains and waterfalls, and BBQ areas are necessary elements for the development of environments for the people living in the buildings. These facilities should be durable, attractive, comfortable and nicely located, and well placed/suited to the landscape. An attractively landscaped house is aesthetically pleasing. People appreciate the beauty of architecture that can be added with ornamental trees, plants, shrubs, climbers, creepers, seasonal flowers, and other hardscape elements. A well-planned landscape improves the value of property in several indirect ways. The house/farmhouse will be more appealing to a prospective buyer because of its usefulness and attractiveness of the landscape features. Buyers also feel the value of having an established landscape rather than having to bear the expenses and efforts involved in establishing landscape materials for a new house.

In Pakistan, most people invest millions in building construction and interior designs but hire local gardeners for landscaping work because they don’t think and search for proper landscape professionals. These gardeners just know about a few plants they normally deal with them on daily basis but don’t know about modern landscaping styles, hardscape features, and landscape principles. They cannot decorate outdoor spaces properly and are not aware of how to organize modern features, trees, plants, shrubs, and seasonal flowers.

Professional landscape architects and landscape designers design outdoor spaces by using basic landscape principles of unity, balance, accent, focalization, scale, proportion, harmony, and rhythm. To develop a functional and beautiful landscape, the ground forms, structures, and plants are organized into a pleasing composition of spaces that satisfy these principles. Different styles of landscaping/gardening are followed according to building elevations, local climatic and environmental conditions, client budget, and availability of plants. The most famous garden styles are Mughal gardens, Persian gardens, Italian gardens, French gardens, English gardens, and Japanese gardens. The Mughal, Persian, Italian, and French types fall in the category of formal gardens, whereas the English and Japanese gardens are classified in the informal style of gardening.

Here in Pakistan, different firms/companies are working on landscape design and execution. Most of the companies just design and don’t go for execution due to a lack of development teams. Some contractors just take contracts for landscape works. But, our company Dreamscape (Pvt.) Ltd. is a full-service company that not only provides landscape design but also takes contracts for landscape development works. Our company also provides services for high-efficiency irrigation systems like sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation.