Green Acres Of Alaska

Your own backyard can become a haven for you to relax and enjoy those long Alaska summer days and evenings. The goal of outdoor living at home is to create a seamless transition from your house to the outside, almost as if you were walking into another room. This is often achieved with a deck or patio for outdoor grilling and dining, or an outdoor fireplace to gather around. But outdoor living is really anything that brings the family out of the house to enjoy and spend time outside. This can be garden beds for flowers and vegetables or a pond complete with a stream and waterfall.

Green Acres has been a leading retaining wall installer in Alaska since 1991. We have used this experience to offer a broad range of special design features and retaining wall materials. Retaining walls help us to shape, organize and control the topography that all other aspects of your landscape design will build upon. We use retaining walls to control erosion, create level and usable areas on a slope, define a patio area or elevate planting beds. When incorporated into a well thought-out design, these walls can add flow to a landscape, helping to guide the guest to a front door, backyard patio, or a pond's edge.

Some landscapes linger in the mind: a cottage garden, a quiet park with gentle waterfalls and ponds, a flower bed riotous with blooms. Inspiring landscapes like these don't happen by accident - they are the result of thoughtful landscape design. Beautiful landscaping can increase our sense of peace and well-being, but it has practical applications as well. Landscape design increases property values. It creates positive first impressions of your home or business. It can provide privacy or security.

Fences have numerous benefits for homeowners. Fences provide a more defined sense of property, as well as improved security. They offer wind shelter for your outdoor kitchen, BBQ grill, fire pit or playground. A well-designed fence can blend into your landscape and complement your overall landscape plan. Plus, fencing adds value to your home - a well-designed landscape with fencing adds an average of 15 - 20 percent to your resale value! To get the most value and enjoyment from your landscaping, we recommend considering and combining all elements of your outdoor design into one seamless architectural plan.

If your neighbor's land stands at a higher elevation than yours, you may be experiencing problems with excessive moisture on your property. You need better yard drainage, and the professionals at Green Acres Landscaping & Aquascaping can help. French drains are one option to address drainage issues. These drains get their name from Henry French, a judge and farmer from Concord, Massachusetts, who wrote a book titled "Farm Drainage" in 1859. These drains are simple trenches about 6" to 24" wide and 10" to 24" deep.

Green Acres has become an Alaska authority in the field of aquascaping, as we've been designing and building water features in Alaska since 2003. Our experienced designers and crews have attended national aquascape training classes and conventions, and guest lectured on water features at garden conferences. Our experience and training give us a broad palette to draw from. We are well-qualified to help you decide what type and size of water feature is right for your space and lifestyle, and we can create a landscape that reflects your personal needs and desires.

A patio creates a dedicated space for outdoor living. It may be an area near your back door used for entertaining guests and grilling, or a secluded corner of your property used for quiet reflection. The intended use of the patio and how it will fit into the overall landscape design will help to determine the size, shape and material of your patio. It is important to create harmony within the landscape, with each feature flowing into the next, and this is why each patio we build is a unique creation.

At our Anchorage retail center, you can find a wide variety of exclusive hardscape materials, quality softscape materials, aquascaping supplies, and putting greens. We are also pleased to offer topsoil sales. Visit our landscape retail center at 8850 Runamuck Place in Anchorage or call us at 907-522-5740. At our topsoil screening/blending operation, we control production to produce quality blended soil for your lawn and garden. Our soil is available in commercial and residential quantities, and we are pleased to deliver to your location.

Green Acres began in 1991 as an all-inclusive landscape service company providing installation and maintenance for private customers, residential and commercial complexes, and public works. Over the years, the Anchorage-based Green Acres has evolved into an exclusive custom design-build landscape company. This has strengthened our commitment to provide quality landscape maintenance services to care for our creations and your investments. We believe our experience in new landscape construction gives us an advantage over maintenance-only companies.