Three Things That Make or Break Your Backyard Landscaping Design

Written By Chouhab on samedi 10 janvier 2009 | 05:16

By Michael Aral

If you love to garden, working on a backyard landscaping project can be one of the most enjoyable landscape designs youll ever get to create. The backyard gives you plenty of room for creativity and its pretty forgiving of mistakes, too. That said, there are a few things you should know ahead of time to avoid costly, headache-inducing mistakes.

Your design plan: the foundation of your landscape

An attractively landscaped yard almost never happens by chance. Even those seemingly free-roaming English perennial gardens are planned down to the last pot of thyme. Go in without a plan and you're likely to come out with more than a few regrets. To make sure that doesn't happen, take the time to look at a wide variety of backyard landscaping designs first.

Collect some ideas that appeal to and will work well in your and suit your tastes and at least and make a sketch of you backyard to . And don't be afraid to keep re-working your plan until you get something youll really love. If you really want to get organized, pick up some landscaping software.

Permanent features: the place to start

Its easy to get wrapped up in choosing annuals, statues, and garden wall decor because picking out little things doesnt take much thought. Not to mention, buying small things for the garden wont break your budget. The problem is, though, if you start out like this you may well end up blowing your budget on things you don't really need.

That means before you pick out any easily moved features like annuals and bird baths, you'll want to decide how you're going to landscape around large, permanent objects. Many of these are either attention-grabbing focal points or landscaping challenges, so they typically require a little forethought. Also remember to include stand-out features you're planning to add like a waterfall and pergola.

Plant choice: don't take it lightly

You dont have to be a professional landscaper to know lining your garden path with cacti is probably a mistake, but unfortunately most of the problems plants can cause are a more subtle than that. Because putting the wrong green thing in the wrong spot can cause major hassles in the future, you'll want to take care with plant choice.

Youll need to know not only what climate the plant prefers, but also care requirements, lifespan, growth pattern (straight up or straggly?), lifespan, bad habits (Does it drop messy berries or attract bees?), what other plants it should and shouldn't be near. To avoid problems in the future, thoroughly review every growing thing you involve in your backyard landscaping ideas to make sure its a good fit.

About the Author:

0 commentaires: