Landscaping, is it just mowing lawns or building the turf?
Landscaping, according to Dictionary.com , “is the process of making a yard or other piece of land more attractive by altering the existing design, adding ornamental features, and planting trees and shrubs.” However, there is a misconception that landscaping involves lawn care. When you search for a lawn or property maintenance company, many of them use the word “Landscaping” in their business name thus gives one the impression that they do lawn care. And guess what, many do! However, the real word “Landscaping” is the actual process of making a piece of land more appealing (attractive) to the eye. In the late 16 th century, The Middle Dutch (Holland) canvas painters coined the term referring to inland and rural scenery in their works of art. It metamorphosed into actual land mass art, in which we use the term today here in Central Oregon. Landscaping, however, literally is almost 300 years old because of how the painters embellished the landscape to make it look better than ...