Landscaping in Columbia, SC: Ready to Beautify Your Yard?
A well-landscaped yard with a beautiful brick-paved sidewalk, landscaping rocks, stepping stones, and flower beds.
Your yard is more than just a plot of dirt around your home. It provides value, curb appeal, and beauty. The landscaping of your yard speaks volumes about who you are, your personality, and your lifestyle.
Having a beautifully landscaped yard provides you with peace and joy. It also boosts your home’s resale value and elevates the appearance of the entire neighborhood.
No one enjoys having an ugly yard. And most homeowners don’t have much or the skills needed to renovate their yards to bring out the full potential of their property.
That’s why landscapers exist. We can handle the work you don’t want to do or can’t do on your own to make your yard more beautiful than ever.
Ready for landscaping in Columbia, SC? We can help.
At Boots On Enterprises, we have many years of experience in hardscape and landscape work, tree trimming, shrub trimming, flowerbed installations, garden wall building, fence installation, and more.
Whether you need landscaping in Lexington, SC or anywhere throughout Lexington or Richland counties, we are here for you.
Please contact us for a FREE quote for your landscaping goals.
Phone: 803-521-4978
Email: bootsonenterprises@gmail.com
A beautifully landscaped lawn with flower beds, landscaping rocks, and shrubs in the background.
What is landscaping?
Landscaping means making improvements to a piece of land that increases its curb appeal and value. It involves both botanical elements (like trees, shrubs, flowers, plants, and grass) and hardscape elements (such as rock, drainage systems, brick, pavement, and lighting).
Landscaping services often involve things like:
Yard grading or terracing.
Yard drainage solutions.
Flowerbed edging.
Garden and flower bed design, installation, and maintenance.
Mulch installation: pine straw, wood chips, rubber mulch, stones/pebbles.
Shrub and tree trimming, pruning, removal, treatments, or planting.
Stone, block, or brick garden retaining walls.
Paving for patios, walkways, pools, or courtyards.
Fencing and other outdoor architectural elements.
A loose stone garden wall with beautiful landscaping and colorful blooming flowers and shrubs in spring.
How much does landscaping cost?
The word, “landscaping,” covers a huge variety of services and products. So there definitely is not a one-price-fits-all with this niche.
Essentially, each service has it’s own price range based on material costs, the size of the project, the accessibility of the site, and the amount of labor involved.
For a basic to moderate level landscaping job, Forbes Home is accurate in their assessment that the cost would be about $4-$12 per square foot. And for a large makeover, you could be looking at up to $40 per square foot if you have intricate landscaping design and work done.
This means that for average yards and basic to average landscaping projects, homeowners can expect to spend between $2,500 and $10,000 with an average cost of about $3500 (Angie’s List).
Another way to approach landscaping cost is a price per month if it is something you’d like to have maintained and want to incorporate ongoing services and upgrades in a contract.
Answering the question, “How much is landscaping?” is easiest if you ask reputable landscaping services near you for a quote for what you want. Then you can get exact prices to work with. Many will provide an estimate at no charge to you.
Landscaping stones create a garden retaining wall for a beautiful bed of blooming flowers and plants.
Large landscape stones or boulders for flowerbeds
When you think about having landscaping work done for your yard, you’ll likely want to do some lawn treatments for your grass. But you probably also want something eye-catching.
Many homeowners love to have something colorful and blooming each season of the year. Having small boulders or natural stone in the yard can add interest and texture to your landscape.
A brick stepping stone path with custom landscaping and flower beds on each side.
Stepping stones
Stepping stones can make a whimsical pathway for guests to walk on so that they don’t have to walk on your lawn or get their feet wet if it is a rainy day.
It is a much more economical project than a sidewalk but serves the same purpose and adds a bit of flair to your yard. And you can choose from a wide variety of options from natural stone to concrete squares, bricks, or tile.
A yellow wagon full of dark brown mulch with a shovel beside a flower bed with fresh mulch in a front yard of a brick home.
Flowerbed mulch
Landscape contractors often use landscape fabric for the flower beds and cover them with mulch. Mulch comes in a variety of colors and textures. But it helps to protect the water in the flowerbed from evaporating too soon, prevents erosion, and really makes the colors of your garden or landscape pop.
Another benefit of the landscape fabric plus mulch combination is that they both help to prevent weeds from springing up in your lovely landscape.
A landscaped area with many leafy plants and landscaping gravel instead of mulch.
Landscaping gravel/landscaping rocks
Looking for an alternative to mulch that also helps to prevent weed growth and soil erosion and lasts a lot longer? How about landscaping gravel? It can also make a beautiful part of a French drain system to help prevent ponding in your yard.
Another plus with landscaping rocks? They don’t attract pests like termites. This makes gravel or stones a perfect option for using right around your home.
The cheapest landscaping rock is pea gravel. But you also have other options like crushed stones, pebbles, lava rocks, and river rocks.
A garden retaining wall for a raised flower bed made of concrete blocks that is three blocks high near a luscious green lawn.
Garden retaining walls
When you have a raised flower bed, you’ll likely want a retaining wall to hold in the soil and keep the shape of your beds. The least expensive option for a retaining wall is poured concrete.
But interlocking concrete block is the next most cost-effective option, as seen above. You can also use natural stone, pressure-treated pine, brick, or other materials.
A decorative landscape light at night in the grass lighting a pathway in a backyard.
Landscape lights
Landscaping shouldn’t just be beautiful during the day. With landscape lighting, you can enjoy a gorgeous yard even after the sun sets.
Why include landscaping lights in your yard? They have a lot of benefits including improved safety and visibility, a boost in curb appeal, creating ambiance, and the ability to use your outdoor living space at night.
You can also do landscape lighting to highlight architectural details around your home or to accentuate certain trees to up the aesthetics of your home.
Landscaping rocks, stepping stones, and flower bed.
Looking for landscapers in Columbia, SC?
At Boots on Enterprises, we are big or small job landscapers near you in Lexington, SC and the Columbia area. We can do residential or commercial landscaping jobs like:
Grading, yard drainage, French drains, hardscaping, tree services, shrub trimming, paving, wood fence building, and more.
Simply contact us today for a FREE estimate for your project.
Phone: 803-521-4978
Email: bootsonenterprises@gmail.com
