The Importance of Setting Heights when starting a landscaping project.
When you’re starting a landscaping project, it’s easy to get caught up in the fun stuff — like picking plants or planning your deck. But one of the most important steps happens right at the beginning: setting the correct heights. Get this wrong, and your project can run into drainage issues, awkward slopes, and wasted materials. Get it right, and you’ll have a landscape that not only looks great but works beautifully for years to come.
Here's why setting up your heights first is so important:
1. Ensures Proper Drainage
One of the primary reasons to establish heights early on is to ensure proper drainage. Incorrect heights can lead to water pooling in undesirable areas, potentially damaging plants, hard surfaces, and even the foundations of your home.
By setting the correct elevations, you can create slopes that direct water away from your structures and towards appropriate drainage areas.
2. Improves Usability and Accessibility
Setting heights early ensures that your landscape is both usable and accessible.
Allowing you to manage slopes on pathways and minimises the number of steps required. Flatter is better right!!
Making deliberate height transitions between areas adds interest and enhances the overall functionality of an area.
3. Facilitates Efficient Use of Resources
Setting heights is just one of those details that can make or break a project — and it’s something our team focuses on every day. If you’re planning a new outdoor space, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Explore our Landscape Construction services to see how we help Nelson and Tasman homeowners build practical, lasting landscapes from the ground up.
Hope you enjoyed this little window into our world!
💙🧡 The Sherlock Landscaping Team
