If you nurture a passion for gardening deep within your heart, you must be selective about the type of plants. While your focus largely revolves around the design of bushes and the color of flowers, chances are high to overlook your drainage system. Of course, being choosy about your floral elements make sense, but you need a robust drainage mechanism in your garden to maintain its appeal. After all, when you visualize the finished landscape, you can’t possibly ignore the drains.

At DNS Landscaping, we have been installing garden drains for our clients over the years. With a professionally installed drainage system, you can prevent your flower beds from pooling up.

Different types of garden drains to choose from

• In case the priority is to channelize water away from your home, French drains would serve the purpose.
• If you have water pooling issues in the lower areas, installing area drains can help.
• Patio runoffs can end up ruining your landscaped garden. We recommend channel drains under these circumstances.
• Some particular areas in your landscaped garden may be accumulating water. Get a sump pump installed in these spaces.
• If you want to direct water runoffs, you may get a creek bed.

With professional assistance from a reputed landscaping expert, you can choose shrubbery, plants, and trees that are more water-tolerant. Besides, you need to be tactical while installing rain gardens.

Reasons to install a proper drainage system for your landscaped garden.

1. Prevent soil from eroding. During heavy rains, the soil in your landscaped areas gets displaced, and eventually flows into other parts of your garden. Eventually, the soil erodes off from its original place, which damages the landscape. In case your garden lacks a proper drainage system, the displacement can mess up with the soil depth. Eventually, this can damage the landscaping.
2. Drains out standing water. Standing water can be detrimental to your property beyond its damage potential to landscaping. While a submerged garden drowns the landscaping, it makes the surface slippery. Besides, standing water often turns out to be unsightly. Over time, it would start attracting pests like mosquitoes. This explains why most households seek garden drain installation services from experienced service providers.
3. Prevents structural damage. Ignoring a proper drainage system in your landscaped garden can weigh heavy on your wallet. Over time, the damage passes on to the structure of your home. Once the standing water starts affecting your home’s foundation, you would repent shelling out the massive repair costs. Particularly, during storms, the flow of water becomes faster through the ward. Unless you seek garden drain installation services from a leading landscaping company, your basement would start accumulating water.

Installing a drainage system in your garden calls for professional experience. Before you finalize the structure of the drains, you need to consider a number of factors. These include the shape and size of your house, degree of slope in your garden, direction of the slope, soil conditions, landscaping, other buildings located nearby, etc. Reach out to the experts at DNS Landscaping at (210) 765-8667 for a professional consultation. Our suite of landscaping services includes garden drain installation, among others. Fill up this online form if you want one of our experts to get back.