Plan everything in advance
Before you embark on something that complex like landscaping, you need to make a straightforward plan and organize everything in advance. First, you need to set your budget and stick to it. Once you do that, it will be pretty easy for you to choose landscaping ideas that will help you stay within a budget.
The next step is deciding what you are going to do. You need to decide whether you will just improve the existing landscape design or create a brand new one, as well as whether you’re going to boost just backyard, front yard or an entire property.
Once you set such goals, maybe you should take photos of your yard, which will help you examine the landscape without being disturbed by surrounding nature. After such inspection, you can make a list of your priorities and finally get started!
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Grow perennials
If you want to spruce your yard up with numerous amazing plants of various dimensions and colors, go ahead! There is nothing more fulfilling than setting a bench or a hammock in a secluded corner of your yard, surrounded by numerous gorgeous flowers. However, if you want both to create such atmosphere and save money, you should go for perennial plants that will last for years. Apart from being heat- and drought-tolerant, such colorful plants will make your yard vivid and hospitable.
When choosing plants, you also need to make sure whether they can easily adapt to your climate. Unlike plants that originate from other climates, native plants require less water, fertilizers, pesticides and overall care. Once you plant them, you won’t have to worry about them anymore.
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Green it up
Apart from choosing low-maintenance plants, you should also try to make your yard unique and pleasant. There are numerous creative ways for you to do that. For example, you should create an exciting fusion of trees, shrubs and numerous perennials. Planting trees, especially deciduous ones, has numerous advantages. While perennials die during the wintertime, trees and shrubs will add a special aesthetical value to your yard. Deciduous trees provide you with an amazing opportunity to enjoy a flamboyant explosion of colors during the whole year, especially in fall.
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Consider hardscaping
No matter how much you love your huge, tidy lawn, sometimes you simply need to resize it. Maintaining a lawn requires spending a lot of money on expensive fertilizers, pesticides and devices that will make it perfectly maintained. This is not a satisfying job, you must admit. If you don’t want to spend both money and time on your large lawn, you should reduce its size. All you have to do is to simply replace it with ground cover, paving or decorative stone. For example, cheap pavers are a long-term solution to such problems for they’re easy to install and maintain. Most importantly, they require practically no care; all you have to do is to sweep them once in a while in order to make them perfectly clean.
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All in all, spring is the right time for proper landscaping. Even if your budget is low, you need to take care your yard. What we all can conclude from these amazing examples is that landscaping requires spending neither too much money nor time. Following these tips, you will manage to improve your yard and stay within the budget. Enjoy!
