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Landscaping in Chamblee
Chamblee is roughly five miles southeast of Sandy Springs in northern DeKalb County, with a population of 30,164 at the 2020 census. The lots here are generally smaller than in the north Perimeter suburbs, and a good deal of the housing stock has turned over in recent years, which produces a particular kind of landscape brief.
On a compact lot the design problem is spatial rather than horticultural. There is usually one usable outdoor area, and the question is how to make it work without the whole yard becoming hard surface. That points at careful proportion between paving and planting, at screening that gives privacy without swallowing the space, and at a plant palette that stays in scale rather than needing cutting back twice a year.
Rebuilt lots come with their own problem, which is soil. Construction traffic compacts the thin sandy loam surface that makes Piedmont ground plantable, and what is left behind performs far worse than the soil survey would suggest. On a newly finished house the first landscape task is frequently relieving compaction and rebuilding structure rather than buying plants. A soil test through the county extension office is cheap and worth doing before anything is ordered.
Drainage on a small lot is unforgiving because there is nowhere for water to spread out. Roof water is the largest single input and the easiest to redirect, so downspout collection taken well clear of the foundation in solid pipe is usually the highest-return work available. Every additional square foot of patio adds runoff that has to be accounted for somewhere.
Irrigation on a lot this size is usually a drip question rather than a sprinkler one. Georgia limits outdoor landscape irrigation to the hours between 4 p.m. and 10 a.m., with new installations exempt for 30 days and with drip irrigation, soaker hoses and hand watering carrying no time limit at all, which suits a compact garden of beds and screening well. Spray heads in a bed only a few feet across water the driveway more than the plants.
Work available in Chamblee
- Landscape Design and Planting
- A drawn plan for the whole property, then beds shaped, soil amended and plants set in the right season
- Drainage and Erosion Control
- Water intercepted, carried and released where it can do no harm, so it stops moving soil and standing against the house
- Retaining Walls and Grading
- Slope turned into usable ground, with drainage behind the wall rather than pressure
- Patios, Walkways and Steps
- Stone laid on a base that will not move, with the water taken somewhere rather than trapped
- Shade Planting Under the Canopy
- Beds that work in four hours of filtered light, planted without wrecking the roots holding the trees up
- Sod and Lawn Installation
- The right grass for the light the area really gets, laid in the season that species is meant to go down
- Irrigation Installation
- Zones matched to what the soil can absorb, controlled by something that knows it has rained
For a price on a specific address in Chamblee, call (404) 737-3568 or use the quote form. Neither the visit nor the written quote costs anything.
Worth reading first
Chamblee: common questions
- Do you cover Chamblee?
- Chamblee is roughly five miles southeast of Sandy Springs in northern DeKalb County, with a population of 30,164 at the 2020 census.
- What is the typical Chamblee project?
- On a compact lot the design problem is spatial rather than horticultural.
Get a landscaping quote in Chamblee
Call (404) 737-3568 or use the quote form, and a Sandy Springs landscaping company prices the work at no charge.