Page 8 - Brandon Sun - Your Home your Way (2019)

8 THE BRANDON SUN • YOUR HOME YOUR WAY • THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2019

Karin Griffin, co-owner of Alternative Landscaping, in the greenhouse on a warm spring day. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Turning your yard into an oasis

BY BUD ROBERTSON areas of landscaping, ex-
cavation, yard care, green-
Why just have a backyard house operation and fenc-
when you can have an oasis ing, decks and railings.
in which to relax and enter- “We would start with
tain? asking you ‘What kind of
“Everybody likes to be landscaping are you looking
outside, I would think,” said at?’ and you’re going to tell
Karin Griffin, who owns Al- me ‘I have no idea, because
ternative Landscaping Ltd. I’ve never landscaped before
with her husband Chris. in my life,’” said Griffin.
“It’s healthy, because That’s where the brain-
you’re getting that fresh air storming begins.
outside and time to be to- The company comes up
gether.” with an initial design us-
A finished yard also helps ing satellite images of the
extend the space in a per- property to present to the
son’s home, Griffin said. clients. The cost of a design
The company has five depends on the complexity
separate departments, each of the project.
with its own experts in the
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