Create Your Own Unique Landscape

Some prefer hiring professionals for the job while some would love to create an awesome landscape by themselves. Professionals with ample experience have brilliant ideas on how to beautify your yard and have all the inputs necessary for this project but being a novice you need to learn a few things before you set out on this task.

There are a few common problems people face when they wish to landscape their back yards or front yards and to find solutions they can look up the net that provides a lot of good solutions.

Let us look at some of the most common problems encountered during landscaping:

The biggest issue you would face when you are out to landscape your outdoors would be drainage. When the drainage is not planned properly you could end up having water collect in the form of puddles and the plants there could rot and die due to excess water. On the other hand some areas could become extremely dry and this could dry up the plants there. The solution for puddles is to plan properly and install an underground drainage system and for the drier patches you can construct short retention walls.

The other problem landscapes face is the direction of the wind; so much depends on how the landscape area is situated. Having fences, plants or trees that can block out excess wind is one possible solution. This can also provide shade and privacy from the prying eyes of the neighbors.

While on a landscape project you might come across some ugly projections like the electric boxes and other such things that can become eye sores. You will have to camouflage them with bamboo trees, or other decorative stuff.

Another major problem you could encounter on your landscape is the type of soil. However hard you work on them some plants fail to thrive well or bloom fully and the lawn could have a patchy growth, all this suggests that the soil is not healthy there. You should take a sample of the soil for testing by professionals who will suggest what has to be done to improve it.

Now that you know of the problems that you could face let us get into the basic steps on how to landscape your yard.

The first thing to do is to draw up a rough sketch of what you want to incorporate into the landscape. Where you want the lawn, and where you think a small rock garden would look good and how the plants and shrubs should be planted, where to place the fountain or a pond etc.

Decide if you wish to have more flowering plants or ferns and shrubs; you might decide to have a lot of rocks and other natural looking elements like drift wood and rock sculptures instead of filling it up with just greenery. This gives your landscape a different dimension altogether and make it a unique one in the neighborhood.

While planning on the design of the landscape you should think of having a nice pretty pathway to enter the garden. A cobbled pathway would love very pretty and it does not involve too much expenditure.

Let your imagination run wild; the sky is the limit, just let your creative juices flow and add those extra small things that make the landscape of your house one of a kind.

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