Softscapes – Softscape refers to the live
-horticultural elements
-flowers
-plants
-grass
-shrubs
-trees
-flower beds
mulch
-growing stuff, like perennial flowers, shrubs, succulents, and trees.
-duties like weed/nuisance management, grading, planting, mowing, trimming, aerating, spraying, and digging for everything from plants and shrubs to flower beds.
Softscape is the “soft”, living part of your landscape, the vegetation. These features may be permanent, such as shrubs and evergreens, or temporary like perennials. Examples of softscape include:
Softscape is unlike hardscaping in that it doesn’t have that long-term or permanent quality. It is the living animated part of a landscape. Softscape comprises the other elements such as soil, plants, shrubs, trees, flowers, vegetables, vines, turf and color schemes.