In Vancouver, not everyone has access to a luscious backyard garden–but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a beautiful green space at home. As a team offering full-service landscaping in Vancouver, including design, construction and planting, we’re increasingly called on to create vivid, functional green spaces for Vancouver’s many decks and rooftops.
Whether you live in an apartment or condo, most living spaces have access to at least a little outdoor space to enjoy, even if it’s barren and sparse to start. Creating a garden on your deck, patio, or rooftop allows you to create a beautiful oasis of potted plants and planters for a serene space surrounded by Vancouver’s sweeping and unmatched vistas.
Patio gardens are often used to conceal elements like vents and machinery, while increasing seclusion, privacy, and even buffering noise. Enhance urban livability with sophisticated spaces that celebrate Vancouver’s stunning views and minimize minor construction imperfections.
Cozy Outdoor Rooftop Gardens in Vancouver
A rooftop patio can be a great place to host family and friends–or enjoy a quiet drink while appreciating the city’s famous dusky sunsets. Rooftop gardens are often robust and spacious, providing ample opportunity for pots and planters that may even contain small trees.
When designing rooftop gardens in Vancouver, we tend to recommend drought-tolerant and low-maintenance plants, including ornamental grasses, hardy herbs, and dwarf varieties of trees and shrubs, such as hellabores, cypress, black mondo grasses, and lavender, that can handle the harsh, exposed conditions of wind, sun, and temperature fluctuations. Native plants tend to be low-maintenance and can be placed in large, lovely planters to complement elements like your gas grill, beverage fridge, and outdoor seating, creating beautiful spaces to relax and reconnect with nature.
The Colourful Condo Garden
Vancouver has many large, uncovered spaces attached to buildings. Usually, all that’s present is a couple of deck chairs and a safety railing. Landscaping can transform your outdoor patio into a colourful extension of your home. Typically, when approaching landscaping design for a condo patio, we begin with an anchor point–something to draw focus. It could be a potted plant or a trellis, or even a small pergola strung with tiny lights to brighten up the night sky. From plans to planting, we create concepts for your sky garden, giving you the opportunity to personalize your space with easy accents like outdoor rugs and woven accent chairs – or even a bistro set, which provides space to lounge and work, significantly enhancing the beauty and functionality of any space.
When planning a patio or rooftop garden in Vancouver, it’s essential to think about how you want to use the space as well as the aesthetics of design. Urban gardens can be vibrant and energetic or soft and tranquil, depending on colour schemes that may revolve around bold fuchsias or serene hydrangea. Vancouver’s mild climate allows for an incredible variety of patio plants–boxwood, topiary, and even Japanese Maple all make excellent additions, infusing spaces with seasonal colours in your own personalized urban oasis, just a step or two outside your home sanctuary.
EcoBridge Landscaping in Vancouver
At EcoBridge, we create functional outdoor spaces for your budget and lifestyle. Our craft is bringing your vision to life. By carefully considering options like lighting and flora, as well as drainage and irrigation solutions, we create next-level outdoor spaces where you can make memories and have the best experience possible.
You don’t need a single-family home to have a garden. All you need is the will and the expertise to pull your vision together. Your urban oasis is just a click away.
If you’re ready to discuss your goals and receive an estimate, call 778.222.1701 or visit our contact page.
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