Are you making New Year’s Resolutions? Beautify your landscape with these gorgeous, practical masonry features for Middleton and Fitchburg, WI.

Creating an outdoor space that looks fantastic, yet is also usable and durable, and is really within everyone’s reach can be accomplished by installing pavers. Although pouring concrete continues to be a traditional way of making a patio or enclosed outdoor space usable, homeowners are turning more and more to installing paving stones as a viable alternative.

Winter is inevitable in Madison and now’s the time to be winterizing water features to avoid last-minute stress. A routine pond maintenance plan for late season prepping for ponds, pond-less waterfalls, fountains or other water features is easy to create. With a little care and forethought in the fall you can protect your installation and extend its life.

Paver patio designs that don’t make maximum use of available space are the biggest complaint professional designs deal with when coming up with a workable hardscape plan. Backyards in the Madison WI area come in every shape and size imaginable.

One of the hottest backyard water features is the pondless waterfall. This landscape design element provides the sound of running water that sparkles off decorative rocks without the drawbacks of a pond to maintain. Any Madison WI backyard can include the attraction of running water.

Once a new stone, brick or paver patio, walk or wall is installed the finishing touches come from timely patio landscaping details. Complementary plants for hardscape designs soften and brighten installations in Madison WI and throughout Southern Wisconsin. Among the most popular trends in bringing green elements into a new hardscaped yard center on making wise use of water and nutrients.

Southern Wisconsin has had more than its share of rain early in 2018 and with the downpours come concerns for improving drainage. Standing water in the yard after normal rainfall is a sign the “playing field” isn’t level. A variety of landscaping solutions can be applied to make sure excess water moves away from buildings and structures, avoiding damage to your Madison WI home.

Landscape lighting provides low-cost security for your property and the latest in low-voltage lights combine reliable performance with style and elegance. Custom light installations add a whole new element of curb appeal after dark. Appropriate light selection adds character to your Madison Wi home above and beyond what’s visible under the sun.

The mystique of an open flame has attracted people for centuries and fire pits in backyard living spaces are welcomed additions. Patio design plans regularly incorporate a fire pit into a Madison WI backyard. Today, a fire pit can be little more than a glorified camp fire or an elaborate installation. The term fire pit often refers to an elegant “fire feature.”

Even something as rugged as brick pavers doesn’t stay looking like new without attention to a few basic hardscape maintenance requirements. In Madison WI and the surrounding area, where everyone’s outdoor living space is subject to the whim of the weather, basic paver care keeps patios, walkways, driveways and structures looking like new for decades.

Is there a wedding, a graduation or special anniversary in your future? Incorporating a family friendly hardscape design and landscaping update into your existing yard not only makes these events memorable, it extends your outdoor living space for years to come.

Do you take pride in accomplishment? Enjoy getting your hands dirty and working in the great outdoors? If you do, you may be exactly what we need to expand our growing team of landscape professionals.

When beginning the process of landscape design, people often don’t look at the big picture before beginning a landscaping project. The result is often having an uncontrollable project in terms of the daily work and the budget.

People often want to create an entirely new feel for their landscaping or their patio, but by the time they consider all of the options, they can get overwhelmed. We have seen it happen more than once.

Getting the right landscaper for your landscaping project is a big commitment and will often determine if you get the final outcome you want.

A retaining wall often times increases usable areas in your yard. And, depending on where a retaining wall is placed and what it is constructed with, it can enhance the looks of your property, and possibly increase your home value in Madison WI.

Patio pavers in place can make the arrival of warm spring weather in Madison WI an incredible event. Wisconsinites want to start enjoying warmer temperatures as soon as they possibly can and patio pavers can pave the way to an awesome start to summer.

A growing trend around our country is the rain garden.

If you are not familiar with the term, a rain garden is a shallow depression designed for rainwater collection. A rain garden temporarily stores excess water until it has time to soak into the ground. With the right soil structure and water loving plants, rain gardens can be both beautiful and environmentally beneficial.

Landscape lighting can add elegance and safety to any home in Madison WI simultaneously.

Low voltage landscape lighting can enhance the look of a home, yard or garden. And, given the investment homeowners make in their homes, landscaping and landscape lighting are obvious next steps to take with their homes in Madison WI.

Outdoor living planning is just like a diamond in the rough. Just as the full beauty, brilliance and luster of a rough diamond must be released by a skillful diamond cutter, an outdoor living plan requires an expert in multiple facets of outdoor living. Proscapes LLC sees nearly every back yard as a ‘diamond in the rough,’ waiting for its full potential to be released.