Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from our team at Lifescape Colorado! We’re incredibly grateful that you’ve entrusted our professionals for more than 40 years for your landscape design, construction, and maintenance needs. Our business wouldn’t be a success without our loyal clients, and we want you to know that we genuinely appreciate your business….
Continue ReadingAdd some seasonal splash with colorful Holiday containers
Just because the cooler temperatures are rolling in doesn’t mean that you have to abandon beautiful colors and points of interest throughout your home and landscape. Colorful and festive holiday containers can bring a splash of cheer to porches, outdoor living areas and landscapes. Here are some ideas: Fall themes and autumn colors. It’s not…
Continue ReadingPlan Now for a Colorful Spring Landscape
Although we’re currently in the thick of fall, now is the ideal time to start planning for your spring landscape. By working with a landscape professional now, you can plan for beautiful color, proactively make changes and add hardscapes, outdoor living or other features to enhance your outdoor space. Here are some ways that the…
Continue ReadingSmall Spaces, Big Plans
The area around your home is important, regardless of the size. In fact, some of the best outdoor living areas can be created in small spaces. Just be sure to keep a few things in mind: Plan to Your Particulars The space you have is ideal for anything you have in mind, so long…
Continue ReadingLooking Back at 2016
Before making proclamations and promises for the New Year, let’s take a moment to look back on some of the highlights from an amazing 2016. A celebration 40 years in the making Lifescape has been recognized as a high-touch landscape architecture, construction, and maintenance company and this past year marked 40 years of crafting a…
Continue ReadingAmazing Trees for Colorado
There’s something special about the natural beauty you wake up to everyday here in Colorado. Therefore, there must be something special about the trees that truly thrive here. Here are some examples of trees that will make your landscape even more amazing. Austrian Pine – Planted as part of the nation’s great Dust Bowl Shelterbelt…
Continue ReadingGorgeous Grasses To Design With
Grass serves as the foundation of most backyards and gardens, but it can also be used to incorporate amazing designs while also keeping water consumption down. Check out these ornamental grasses that are ideal for Colorado landscapes. Ornamental grasses like Blue Avena or Little Bluestem require very low water with attractive silvery blue foliage. Elijah Blue fescue…
Continue ReadingCreate Visual Appeal & Control Water Runoff with Dry Riverbeds
Taking a second look at something that appears ordinary at first glance can lead to exciting new discoveries. Now that it’s getting warmer, properly managing the water from summer showers is more important than ever. While many landscape architects do plan and build drainage ditches as dry creek beds, they often fall quite short as…
Continue ReadingFunky, Colorful Large Garden Containers Add Landscape Appeal
Home gardening is all about convenience. And nothing is more convenient than a stylish garden container. It can be a hefty undertaking to redesign a garden or landscape, but with garden containers, you can redefine a garden’s style in just a few moments. We love how gardens can be designed as an arrangement of distinct…
Continue ReadingHealthy Landscapes Begin with Healthy Soils
Happy plants and trees grow from healthy soil, and even the smallest of changes in soil composition can impact plant growth. Both organic and non-organic soils have benefits that make each suitable for a variety of environments. Even still, many soils require further soil amendments such as mulch, compost, and manure to develop a rich environment…
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