ElanThe hot trend in landscape design is creating outdoor “living rooms,” but Plant-A-Plant Landscaping Company President and CEO Lisbeth Prins, whose full-service landscape design/build firm has been transforming outdoor areas into award-winning living spaces for 23 years, prefers to expand upon the concept: “It needs to be an area in which the family can be comfortable because it’s not just for entertaining–it’s an everyday place for each family member to enjoy–so in a sense, it’s a ‘family room.’ A garden should be lived in and should be visually stimulating. Moreover, if a client’s goal is to have additional space for entertaining large, more formal parties or an intimate garden, we custom-design areas to suit their particular needs. Just as every family is different, so are their design requirements.
Plant-A-Plant not only incorporates hardscape features such as pavers, flagstone and brick into their outdoor living spaces, they also operate their own nursery where they grow 75 percent of the shrubs and perennials used in their designs. This practice, along with their dramatic water creations, dry stream beds and lighting and irrigation systems, has contributed to their earning 23 Keep Virginia Beautiful Landscape Excellence Awards, the National Landscape Association Design Award for Residential Landscape and the Landscape Contractors Award for Residential Landscaping.
With three landscape designers, 24 employees and several contractors she’s used for 19 years, Lisbeth encourages her company to reach beyond the ordinary. “Everyone has different requirements for what makes them most comfortable. My designers and I are very good listeners–we find out about our clients and their wants by talking with them, reviewing our portfolio and getting a feel for how they want to use their outside space. Having worked o so many projects, we’re exceptionally good at envisioning how the space will look when it’s completed–incorporating focal points and elements that take our designs beyond the extraordinary to the truly spectacular.”
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