Landscape Designer and consultant at America The Beautiful Landscape Design at America The Beautiful Landscape Design - Vancouver, Washington, United States
Turning Ordinary Yards into Extraordinary Gardens.The Value of Extraordinary gardens is more than a thing of beauty. *A beautiful garden increases the overall value of a home. A recent joint study by Clemson University (http://www.clemson.edu) and the University of Maryland concluded that potential home buyers will pay up to 11.3% above the asking price for homes with thoughtfully-designed landscaping. The Wall Street Journal reports,"…landscape investments are recovered fully, and sometimes doubled, via increasing real estate values."It is also clear that the caliber of the design impacts the value of the landscape investment. This Old House stated, And a study of home sales in Greenville, South Carolina indicates, "Homes with excellent landscaping sell 4 to 5 percentage points higher…Homes with poor landscaping… sell for 8-10% less."The Strength of Great DesignAmerica The Beautiful has more than twenty five years of dedicated experience, from the ground up. We are professionals well versed in drainage work, irrigation systems, hard surfaces, and plantings, and we design and build the gardens we conceive.Our management staff has the professional, multi-disciplinary distinction of CPH (Certified Professional Horticulturist) and maintains this certi.cation with on-going continuing education and training. Unique to our .eld, only 3-5% of landscape professionals receive this industry seal of approval. At America The Beautiful, we are also keenly aligned with the elements of nature. We know plants and understand the unique characteristics that determine each contribution to the creation of a garden. Weaving personalities and color, texture and light, and water and soil preferences into a single great designAmerica The Beautiful creates beautiful gardens that look remarkable when they are first installed, and continue to reveal their secrets over time.Visit http://americathebeautifullandscaping.com