Your home's entrance is guests' and visitors' ultimate first impression of your home before they enter it. Not only does a beautifully designed and installed driveway enhance your home's curb appeal...

Are you planning to landscape your yard? While leafy landscaping is important, you can't underestimate hardscaping. Hardscaping is the non-living element of landscaping that includes bricks...

As the warm breeze fills the air and the sun graces your backyard, its the perfect time to transform your outdoor space into a haven for hosting unforgettable gatherings. Whether planning a summer barbecue...

A new lawn enhances the overall landscape of your home and yard, elevating the presentation of the exterior. Depending on the aesthetic you’re going for and your space, certain types of lawns will be more beneficial to work with. With so many options to choose from, this blog will help to narrow down which choices of grass to explore.

First-time homeowners, revampers, and design-savvy investors alike are always searching for the newest, elevated, and trendy methods to contribute to their home projects. A project as small as lining...

Nothing is better than a relaxing vacation-like setting that is only a few steps away. An outdoor patio or backyard is the perfect living space to not only add a new, valuable feature to your home. More than that, by creating a serene oasis that is readily accessible, homeowners can spend more time with family, host special events, or relax after a long day. As summer approaches, investing in an outdoor living space will welcome new ideas and designs to elevate the look and feel of your home.

Landscaping is all about life, right? So we bring in plants and help them grow. Well, our readers are smart enough to know that landscaping is also about hardscaping and outdoor living. But what about when you want the easy maintenance of hardscaping combined with the appearance of living plants?

Outdoor living spaces are for just - outdoor living! And research has backed up, again and again, that spending time outdoors is good for our mental, psychological, and cardiovascular health...

There's a lot in life that we can't control. Your landscape falls in a grey area. You have some control over it, and it's the final product, but a lot of the factors that affect it are outside of your sphere of influence...

When it comes to outdoor gatherings, there are many ways to have a great time. Some of us love a backyard barbeque, whether cheap hot dogs or expensive steaks. For many, it's a pool party or drinks on the terrace, and others will take just about any excuse to sit outside and enjoy a warm evening with cool friends...

Here come those May flowers we were promised! They’re truly one of the beautiful joys of Spring. Many homeowners who don’t spend a lot of time thinking about their landscaping for most of the year still take a moment to savor the view or, you know, stop and smell them...

In your backyard, every detail matters. You focus on ensuring you don't have a patch of lawn that looks different from the rest due to overgrowth or dead grass. You monitor the health of every flower and trim and prune each tree to perfection...

Landscaping is walking the line between enjoying nature and adjusting it. You could call it domestication, but as with domesticating anything wild, it's not easy. Mulch is our natural answer to so many problems nature hands us as we attempt to make our landscape pretty...

Modern landscaping is the marriage of contemporary living and the natural world. Southern Love aims to create harmony between your home and landscaping, harnessing it for your purposes while nurturing it back. So it stands to reason that we also harness the elements for your enjoyment and nurturing purposes...

Sometimes when people think “landscaping,” they think “lawn mowing.” It makes sense from an experiential perspective. For many, mowing the lawn is the part of landscaping they do themselves or one of the first chores they ever took on, and for everyone, lawn mowing is the most frequent landscaping task...

Spring is in the air! The birds are chirping, and the bees and lawnmowers are buzzing. And you’re saying to yourself, “It’s time to pretty up my land with some vivid flowers or tasty tomatoes!” But before you start your Spring landscape glow-up, Southern Love wants to help you with your Spring cleanup to prepare the land for all the wonderful things coming...

When towns experience a drought or other water shortage, watering lawns is often one of the first limitations placed on residents. Unfortunately, this limitation, combined with the image of impossibly green golf courses with arched plumes of water spraying into the air, has helped unfairly malign sprinkler systems as a needless waste of water...

Whether you're outdoorsy or occasionally venture outside, the facts are that spending time outside demonstrably improves health and quality of life. In fact, science has shown that it reduces the risk of cancer, improves mental health, and even increases life expectancy. But not everyone has time for mountain climbing...

In life, we often have to make choices between easy and hard. In some areas, those choices are inconsequential – such as how you like your eggs cooked or the mode you play a video game. Often, however, the choice does matter in your daily lives. Sometimes the hard way is more challenging because it’s more thorough, and sometimes it’s harder because it’s wrong. How do you know? You can discover the difference with professional landscape help and excellent hardscape design and “soft” landscaping with your Lakeway yard. Neither choice is right or wrong, but often they go well together. Here are some of the options to add pieces of hardscape to your home.

In February, love is in the air, and love becomes associated with flowers somewhere along the line. Here's a fun fact for you: did you know that florists do 25 % of their annual business on February 14 every year? A quarter of a year's money in one day! We're not here to rain on the cut flowers parade, but how about getting some flowers that last a little longer...