Gardening is the activity of caring for and cultivating a garden. Landscaping, on the other hand, is the process of making a garden or area of land more attractive by changing your existing designs, planting trees and shrubs, and adding decorative elements. Both landscaping and gardening involve design, planning, and maintenance, but gardening generally involves only the plants in a space. The landscape is the global area that encompasses plants.
Landscaping includes all the visible features of the land. It has plants, irrigation systems, retaining walls, paths, pavement, garden sculptures, fences, gazebos, lighting, water fountains and even the house itself.
Landscape designers
work among these elements and alter them to improve the functionality and aesthetics of the space. Landscapers sometimes describe gardeners as “planters” because a gardener focuses on plant health and well-being.Landscapers are often involved in outdoor construction work, such as driveways, patios, walls, and similar work known as “landscaping”. However, gardeners only plant, weed, cultivate, replace and harvest several plants. While the landscaping team conceives and develops every other aspect of your outdoor space. Landscaping incorporates botanical elements into the space, such as trees, lawns and shrubs and other flora, along with the design of paths, furniture, planting beds, water fountains and fences.
Gardeners often work with a landscape design team to incorporate garden and plant life into the overall design plan. Landscapers and gardeners can sketch out a design for a garden and determine a list of plants, but only gardeners will plant, weed, cultivate, replace, and harvest the plants. The main difference between landscaping and gardening is that landscaping focuses on living and non-living aspects, whereas gardening focuses only on living aspects. Landscaping is a more professional form of gardening in its design and in the construction of ponds, sculptures or topiaries.
Harsh landscapes are designed to be permanent elements in the landscape, so they often involve construction. That said, some gardening associations or larger companies will have the skills and equipment to offer garden and landscaping services. Other busy people hire landscapers or gardeners for weekly lawn maintenance, or less frequently for occasional special work. Horticulturists often work with both landscapers and gardeners, but their specialized knowledge of plants is more beneficial to gardeners than landscapers.
For example, landscaping ideas for backyard areas will be very different from the landscaping needs of a public parking lot or apartment building. Both gardeners and landscapers can beautify their garden; however gardening and landscaping are closely related but at the same time there are important differences between them. Like landscaping, gardening involves design, planning, and maintenance but gardening generally involves only the plants in a space. Landscape designs are scale drawings that show the location of existing and future trees, garden beds, buildings, gardening elements and other garden features. If you're ready to transform your backyard into an outdoor oasis then Milestone's professional landscape design team is here to help.
They bring together plants flowers and flora while combining them with landscaping constructions such as pavements roofs pergolas fountains ponds waterfalls etc. For routine plant and lawn maintenance a gardener may be best option but for large jobs or wide-ranging tasks a landscaper might be best option.
