How to Get The Most out of Your Backyard Landscaping ideas
Friday, April 15th, 2011No matter where you live, there’s nothing better than relaxing outdoors on a warm summer night watching your backyard landscaping ideas come to life.
Unfortunately, re-landscaping your entire backyard during the course of one growing season can be back breaking, expensive and requires major planning.
The easiest way to get around this hurdle is to break your backyard into sections, and simply treat each section like an entire garden. Work on each of these ‘gardens’ each year and over the course of a few years it will all be done.
Although each section of the backgarden is now being worked on in stages you still need an overall plan. Sketch out what you want the yard to look like and what structures are going where and take this into account.
Now is the best time to consider the plants that are going to make up the garden. Take into account your overall design and try to incorporate the trees and shrubs into this plan. Make sure you show which way is north in your plan.
Another often overlooked aspect is tools. The most important and essential tool of all is the Makita lxt cordless drill, and even though it’s not a garden tool as such, you are going to need it to help build pergolas, fences, retaining walls and anything else.
Screening with Plants – a great way to soften those edges and give a natural look
Whether or not the garden has a fence, you might want to consider planting a row of hawthorn, juniper, arborvitae, or a combination of these bushes instead of going the usual route of a wooden or metal fence.
Planning ahead with your garden bed is a smart move.
The types of flowers and small shrubs that make up the garden bed can make or break the area so be sure to consider other factors apart from the color, and include whether they are perennial, what colors they are when not flowering, how tall they potentially grow and how hardy they are.
You do not want to choke the plants or make the garden look overcrowded so use 3 or 5 plants for each kind of flower and allow sufficient space at the rear of the bed for access. Also consider how big they will eventually grow.
How to make an Island Bed
An island bed, as the name implies, is planted in the middle of the yard surrounded by a sea of grass. It can vary in shape and size according to your imagination and available space. Scale the plants from tallest in the center to shortest at the edges.
Preconfigured gardens. Something to consider
Although it seems stupid to want to landscape your garden and then get a preconfigured setup, but it takes the guess work out of plant selection and placement. Leave the greenery to the experts and worry about what goes where.
The best thing you can add is a water feature.
The water feature adds a touch of class to the garden and it is also a very tranquil place to sit with the soothing sound of running water.
Vegetation and types of plants
There are so many things to consider with the greenery and its not just what looks good where. The type of soil, the drainage, where the direct sun is and many other things all need to be taken into acount.
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