Landscaping in Richland Township

Richland Township, taking in the Gibsonia community, sits where North Hills suburbia starts running out into more open ground, and properties vary a lot from one end to the other.

That variation means the brief changes considerably across the township. Wooded lots need the shade and root-competition thinking that Pine Township does; the more open properties need exposure-tolerant planting and have room for structure that a tight lot does not.

What most share is gradient and ageing drainage. There is enough fall across the majority of properties here to need retaining before a patio is level, and a lot of the drainage was sized for smaller roofs and shorter driveways than are now sitting on it.

Renovation is common — this is established housing stock, and twenty-year-old planting here has the same problems it has in McCandless.