We are
Intown Dreamscape Designs
We provide a full service landscape design, installation and maintenance company serving the metropolitan Atlanta area. It is our philosophy to understand your needs and desires for your homes exterior.
Our Goal
Our goal is to design, build and maintain innovative and enduring landscapes for generations to come. We pride ourselves on providing creative landscapes for all our clients that fit their budget and lifestyles. Through years of hard work and dedication, Intown Dreamscape Designs has achieved a reputation for skilled craftsmanship, attention to detail and professionalism. garden landscaping
Our Success
Intown Dreamscape Designs is dedicated to being a socially responsible company. We are always looking for new avenues to better the community and ways to help preserve what is already here. Over the years we have been committed to serving the community in which our offices are located. As we have grown, we have branched out into new areas of Atlanta and want to continue our efforts in those new areas. In the past we have teamed up with Trees Atlanta and Park Pride to help beautify the streets and parks in which we frequent on a daily basis. We realize that not every community has the opportunity to work with these great organizations, so we have come up with some ideas of our own to help those that want to work with us and want to improve their neighborhoods. Suggestions? Although we have made many efforts to make our company a more responsible one, we are always looking for new ways to do more. We are always open to any suggestions and new ideas from people in the community. If you have any suggestions, please let us know your thoughts.
Environmentally responsible company
We have adopted several practices within our company to make sure that we are stewards to the environment. Being green has been internalized into the way we think every day. As our crews are out making Atlanta a more beautiful city, our office staff has taken measures to make our operations kinder to the environment.
Designing with local resources
Our designers are always working on projects in which they are using plants that are native to our region or have been proven not to have impact on our native plant and animal species. They are also designing hardscapes that have permeable surfaces to prevent obstructions to our water shed and in some case we are capturing that water to use for watering the garden we have designed.
Rainwater Harvesting
Rainwater harvesting is a great way to help conserve our fresh water supplies. We install these rainwater harvesting systems for our clients, and we use one for all of our outdoor watering needs at our offices. Whether we are washing our fleet of trucks that run on Bio-fuels or watering our plant inventory, we are using water that we have collected in a large cistern, from the roof of our office. This water that we collect is also used for watering streetscapes across the city for Trees Atlanta. We have a crew that goes out every 10 days during the summer to help keep our trees across the city thriving.
Composting
Our crews accumulate a large amount of green waste each day. Whether it is our installation crews tearing out old shrubs or our maintenance teams bringing back clippings from pruning shrubs and mowing grass, we do not consider this green waste to be waste. Instead, we take these old plants and clippings and use them to create our own compost, in which we used to improve the soil conditions in the gardens that we plant. Just as a home needs a good foundation, so does a garden and the foundation of a garden is its soil. We are currently investigating using our compost to make a sustainable compost tea to use for fertilization.
Recycling
Our crews also accumulate a lot of non-organic waste that cannot be composted. Most of the plants that we install on a daily basis come in plastic containers. There are not many facilities that accept these containers for recycling, so we have teamed up with several growers that take these containers and reuse them for new crops of plants. They are used over and over, until they cannot be used anymore. We have cut back on the amount of plastics used in our seasonal color production by about 50% through our grower that uses bio-degradable Elle pots. This eliminates the small 4 containers that annuals are traditionally grown in and are usually thrown away after planting, because they are not reusable. We have also set up a recycling program within our office where we reuse or recycle much of our waste. Any scrap metals that we accumulate are recycled or used by a local artist who uses the scrap metal to create some great folk art. Any paper waste that we produce is either recycled or shredded and introduced to our compost pile. We are also salvaging old stone and bricks from tears downs to reuse in hardscapes when our clients desire an aged look. This helps us reduce the amount of waste that we introduce to our landfills.
Suggestions?
Although we have made many efforts to make our company a more responsible one, we are always looking for new ways to do more. We are always open to any suggestions and new ideas from people in the community. If you have any suggestions, please let us know your thoughts!