Ten Tips to Spice Up Your Outdoor Spaces written by: Besarien
Your yard needs decorating just as much as the rest of your property. Great landscaping can increase your property value, your ability to sell quickly if need be, and your enjoyment of your outside spaces. Here are ten of the best landscaping tips that can help make any outdoor area more practical and attractive:
1) Express Yourself with Personalized Space
There is no better gift for a family member than his or her own little space in the garden to pursue an interest or hobby. A butterfly lover can plant a garden with milkweed, butterfly bush, and other butterfly favorites. Budding chefs can cultivate an herb garden, vegetable patch, and fruit trees. Bird watchers can attract songbirds and other colorful avians to the yard with berry bushes and tasty nectar flowers. An avid reader can hang a hammock in a sunny, sweet-scented spot surrounded by lavender and roses.
2) Solve Privacy and Noise Problems
Plants are beautiful substitutes for privacy fences and don't feel nearly as unfriendly from your neighbors' perspectives. They can enjoy the green scenery and natural noise reduction that hedges and mid-sized shrubs provide, too. The soothing sound of running water in a fountain or other water feature can help drown out unwanted noise from busy roads, late night parties, or barking dogs.
3)Utilize Rocks at Hand
Rocks are great for adding points of interest to the garden. They can be used as natural edging material to divide lawn from planted beds. A rock garden can be a beautiful easy-care feature in any climate. Collect rocks of interesting shape and color on your road trips. Many rocks are also free and abundant just about anywhere in your yard where you decide to dig, as any seasoned gardener can attest.
4) Paint with Light
Yard lights make your garden magical and inviting even on the darkest nights. Lighting your pathways reduce falls and twisted ankles and discourage guests from tromping through flowers beds. Houses surrounded by lit paths and gardens are less likely to attract break-ins as well.
5) Sculpt with Levels
When planting an area of your garden, think about adding interest with various heights. A circular garden might start at the edge with groundcover and short flowers and increase in height as it nears the center. Trees, trellises, and hanging baskets can lift the eye adding richness and depth to your landscape.
6) Save Money and Time with Natives and Perennials
Native and perennial plants are great choices for easy and economical landscaping. Natives are hardy and naturally more disease and drought resistant. Perennials come back strong after winter, year after year.
7) Bask in the Shade
Large shade trees add majesty and a sense of permanence. They can help your house and yard stay cool in the summer. They also provide safe nesting for birds in the springtime.
8) Discover Groundcover
Grass is great but is just one type of many groundcover options. To add interest to a space create patterns by varying different kinds and colors of groundcover for a gorgeous patchwork quilt effect. Certain groundcovers look lush on steep hills where grass would be patchy and sparse. They help prevent the soil from eroding too.
9) Harness the Magic of Potted Plants
If you have favorite plants that won't survive the winter in your area, plant them in pots. They can decorate decks and poolside when the weather is clement and can come indoors to use as house plants before the first freeze.
10) Cultivate Garden Glamor Year Round
Add plants to every area of your garden that look great in fall and winter. While the rest of the garden sleeps you will still have color and interest with evergreens and berry-bearing plants like holly and choke berry.
Your yard needs decorating just as much as the rest of your property. Great landscaping can increase your property value, your ability to sell quickly if need be, and your enjoyment of your outside spaces. Here are ten of the best landscaping tips that can help make any outdoor area more practical and attractive:
1) Express Yourself with Personalized Space
There is no better gift for a family member than his or her own little space in the garden to pursue an interest or hobby. A butterfly lover can plant a garden with milkweed, butterfly bush, and other butterfly favorites. Budding chefs can cultivate an herb garden, vegetable patch, and fruit trees. Bird watchers can attract songbirds and other colorful avians to the yard with berry bushes and tasty nectar flowers. An avid reader can hang a hammock in a sunny, sweet-scented spot surrounded by lavender and roses.
2) Solve Privacy and Noise Problems
Plants are beautiful substitutes for privacy fences and don't feel nearly as unfriendly from your neighbors' perspectives. They can enjoy the green scenery and natural noise reduction that hedges and mid-sized shrubs provide, too. The soothing sound of running water in a fountain or other water feature can help drown out unwanted noise from busy roads, late night parties, or barking dogs.
3)Utilize Rocks at Hand
Rocks are great for adding points of interest to the garden. They can be used as natural edging material to divide lawn from planted beds. A rock garden can be a beautiful easy-care feature in any climate. Collect rocks of interesting shape and color on your road trips. Many rocks are also free and abundant just about anywhere in your yard where you decide to dig, as any seasoned gardener can attest.
4) Paint with Light
Yard lights make your garden magical and inviting even on the darkest nights. Lighting your pathways reduce falls and twisted ankles and discourage guests from tromping through flowers beds. Houses surrounded by lit paths and gardens are less likely to attract break-ins as well.
5) Sculpt with Levels
When planting an area of your garden, think about adding interest with various heights. A circular garden might start at the edge with groundcover and short flowers and increase in height as it nears the center. Trees, trellises, and hanging baskets can lift the eye adding richness and depth to your landscape.
6) Save Money and Time with Natives and Perennials
Native and perennial plants are great choices for easy and economical landscaping. Natives are hardy and naturally more disease and drought resistant. Perennials come back strong after winter, year after year.
7) Bask in the Shade
Large shade trees add majesty and a sense of permanence. They can help your house and yard stay cool in the summer. They also provide safe nesting for birds in the springtime.
8) Discover Groundcover
Grass is great but is just one type of many groundcover options. To add interest to a space create patterns by varying different kinds and colors of groundcover for a gorgeous patchwork quilt effect. Certain groundcovers look lush on steep hills where grass would be patchy and sparse. They help prevent the soil from eroding too.
9) Harness the Magic of Potted Plants
If you have favorite plants that won't survive the winter in your area, plant them in pots. They can decorate decks and poolside when the weather is clement and can come indoors to use as house plants before the first freeze.
10) Cultivate Garden Glamor Year Round
Add plants to every area of your garden that look great in fall and winter. While the rest of the garden sleeps you will still have color and interest with evergreens and berry-bearing plants like holly and choke berry.