Putting Together your Landscaping Ideas
Sometimes it can be hard to come up with ideas, especially if you’re not the creative type? But, don’t let that stop you from your search for the perfect garden.
Finding the best landscaping ideas is one of the easiest things in the world to do, it is amazing more people are not pros at it by now. trees can contribute to the overall appearance of your front yard perhaps more than almost any other part of your landscaping design.
By doing some advance planning and research, you can lay out an eye pleasing and functional design for your front yard landscaping ideas. Other easy landscaping ideas for your front yard are trees and shrubs. When looking at pictures of landscaping, pay attention to the details, ideas, and principles that are universal to most designs.
With just a little bit of time and attention as mentioned above, you can insure that your shrubs stay looking beautiful year in and year out, and always reflect well on your landscaping design. There are a lot of varieties of evergreen trees that accomplish many different tasks in a home landscaping design.
A good way to get the whole family in on the backyard landscaping is to plant trees or flowers together. Shrubs stake out the middle ground in landscaping designs, as they are larger than flowers and yet smaller than trees. Using a variety of flowers in landscaping can keep the area beautiful and fragrant.
Usually the one element that is omitted from landscaping projects and that is the use of stones or small boulders. A very famous and age old landscaping idea is the ‘circular drive design’, based on the principle of unity, which involves the use of various bed levels to create an effect. Create levels in your garden to distinguish various areas as per the function of the garden.
How far you bury your rock in the ground will depend upon the landscaping rock that you select. If you are looking for something to make your backyard pop out and stand out from the crowd in order to deliberate your personality, then why don’t you go for it! If you are looking for a fun and wild spot to spend time with friends and relatives, then what a better place than your backyard? If you are someone who wants to use your backyard for the family and friends to come over and enjoy barbecues and spend time together, then there are many choices for you.
Shrubs are the perfect fit to any garden landscaping idea. Another benefit to using desert landscaping friendly plants is, that not only will these plants do well even in the hot sun; they will also be able to flourish in the low quality soil common to these climate zones. Obviously, these plants won’t be the best choice for every climate.
A good landscaping advice for the front-yard of your house is to always keep it simple. Try to choose only 2-3 different bushes from the same family. Whatever you do, don’t plant every bush that your friends and neighbor may give you. Your landscaping will start looking like a jungle!
Just remember the old saying “Keep It Simple.”
Clifton Waldrep
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November 6th, 2009 at 9:51 am
We are putting up an above ground pool this year…any landscaping ideas to try to ‘soften’ the overall look?
We have a cement patio & the pool will be just off that..then there is an arbor beyond that leading to a large pond w/dock. I HAD a picket fence on either side of the arbor, but have taken it down. So I need ideas on how to bring all areas together (especially around the pool) that will be LOW maintenance, ‘natural & soft’ looking!
November 6th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Unfortunately the answer to this question is "it depends".
There are many good books out there about landscaping around pools, here’s one from Amazon.com that’s only $8 used.
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November 6th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I saw a great example in Landscape Architects & Specifier’s News a couple months ago, where an architect put a nice-looking deck around his above-ground pool to make it look more like an inground. If you were to do a multi-level deck it could help the pool blend in. For example, do a 4′ wide deck all around the pool, then step it down to a wider deck, which then could step down to plantings and grade. Wouldn’t be cheap, but would definitely cut down on maintenance, especially if you built the deck from a composite like Trex or Fiberon.
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November 6th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Full size Cannas grow tall enough to camo the sides of the pool.
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November 6th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Try to avoid long straight lines in you landscape. Slope or terrace the yard leading to the pond. Add flower or shrub beds that lead from the pool down to the pond to tie the two sides of the landscape together naturally. Make a path from the edge of the pool to the pond that is lined with cobble stones. You can have a fence around either, but don’t let it end abruptly. Taper the ends and elongate the lines with shrub or flower beds. Add rocks to the landscape.
Try some or all of these suggestions. Sketch it out to see how it looks from a bird’s eye view. Play around and have fun. You really could do just about anything
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