Outdoor Patio Design and Installation
REFRESH IN AN OUTDOOR LIVING ROOM
A patio designed and installed by Hanselman Landscape can do so much to bring joy to your lives and garden! To invoke these experiences, we combine our designer’s vision with our craftsman’s attention to detail, creating garden floors that are beautiful, functional, and enduring. We use materials that range from large boulders and natural stone, to the more economical brick pavers and continuous-pour patterned concrete.
Contact us if an elegant outdoor living room would increase your garden joy!
CREATIVE USE OF SPACE
With a thoughtfully-designed patio, you can extend your living and entertaining space into your garden, and provide areas for intimate family gatherings or large group functions. Hanselman Landscape can add outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, and seating walls to increase the function and attractiveness of your elegant outdoor entertainment center.
WELL-CONSTRUCTED GARDEN ROOMS
A patio, as a floor to an outdoor ‘room’, affects the feel of the garden by its size, pattern, texture and perimeter. Welcoming, private, cozy, expansive or formal spaces can be created with attention to the patio’s design and detailing.
THOUGHTFUL PROBLEM SOLVING
Our designs create subtle grade changes to move water away from homes and swimming pools while making slopes that are comfortable for walking, sitting, or entertaining. Our patio installers utilize accurate survey tools and their hands-on skill as craftsmen to blend grades seamlessly, even in difficult places. In short, we will provide solutions, not problems, for others to solve.
JAPANESE-INSPIRED NOBEDAN PATIOS
Nobedan (a Japanese stone laying pattern) celebrates natural flow, using varying stone sizes and textures to mimic a meandering stream. Each step becomes a deliberate pause, inviting quiet contemplation. Our process can be likened to piecing a puzzle together on the kitchen table, except that in the creation of a nobedan path or patio, the pieces are templated, cut, and shaped by the same people who will put the puzzle together in the client’s garden.
PATIOS: DESIGNED & INSTALLED
Our Garden Design Process
Explore
Share your goals, ideas, and project budget and we will begin to survey and plan your garden
Design
We will consider all your primary view perspectives, both inside and out as we design your garden
Build
Your garden dream will begin to take shape at the hands of our highly skilled craftsmen and landscapers
Enjoy
Every project ends with the reward of experiencing the joyful stewardship of your little piece of creation
Testimonials
What surprised us most was how much more we love our home since Hanselman Landscape began working here! In addition to the beautiful new backyard oasis they created, they are here regularly to care for our plants, turning existing shrubs that we thought were worthless into beautiful, valuable specimens.
Our needs were to have as much privacy as possible from neighboring homes. Everything was done to perfection. This was the first time in a while (even with building a new home) that we gave the job to someone and never, ever had to go over again and again what was to be done.
Words do not serve well to express the sense of serenity and pleasure which your fine work evokes. I would liken the feeling to that of walking alone through a great museum.
I can’t even put into words how much I love my new yard. Hanselman Landscape did an outstanding job–changing an ugly piece of land into a serene and beautiful garden. The workmanship of Hanselman Landscape’s employees is of the highest quality.
Hanselman Landscape has helped us re-landscape our property over the past 3 years. James has a way of guiding you through your own garden, taking in the vantage points, and uncovering your vision (even though you didn’t know you had one)!
We liked the way James (Hanselman) explained and introduced the suggested plantings, actually showing us leaf samples. We needed and appreciated his guidance. Thanks for adding to our enjoyment of our home with your creative landscaping.
The Gardener’s Journal
- Gardens for Children
James’ first official “children’s garden” was commissioned by a church preschool director who desired a natural play space… Read more: Gardens for Children - The Joy of Flowers!“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to… Read more: The Joy of Flowers!
- Children in GardensAs grandparents of nine lively granddaughters, we understand the immense value of delightful outdoor spaces for running, playing,… Read more: Children in Gardens
EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE OF HANSELMAN LANDSCAPE AND GARDENS
Founded in 1985, Hanselman Landscape & Gardens designs, builds, and nurtures a wide variety of gardens in both private and corporate settings. From our headquarters in Manheim, Pennsylvania, we serve clients throughout the region, including Philadelphia’s Main Line—and as far away as Cambridge, Massachusetts. We also cultivate unique specimen plants, which we make available to discriminating gardeners and architects.