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A beautiful landscape enhances both the value of your property and the quality of your life. Therefore, it is important that you know how to do landscaping. Here, then, are some residential landscape ideas.
Number one: Create a low-maintenance yard. This is a practical thing to do because it will minimize your expenses and also cut down on the work and effort that you have to put in. Regardless of how beautiful your yard is, if it causes you too much work, then you are still most likely to resent it. It would be okay to create a high-maintenance yard if you don't mind spending hours each weekend on upkeep or shelling out too much money for maintaining your yard. Low-maintenance means choosing the trees and plants that require the least amount of work, without sacrificing beauty.
Number two: Include something of interest in each of the four seasons to your landscaping. For example, you can have flowering trees or shrubs throughout spring and summer, fall foliage in autumn, and good structure in winter.
Number three: Install water features. Water features are visually appealing and emit soothing sounds. Materials you can use include pre-formed rigid plastic liners, durable pumps, flexible tubing, and cheap fountains. You can even experiment with ponds and simple waterfalls. In order to create a waterfall, you will need the following items: rocks, submersible pump, tubing to run from the pump to the top of the waterfall, large plastic flower pot to house the tubing, rigid pond liner, carpenter's level, shovel, sand, and garden hose. Make sure that your waterfall fits in with the surrounding area. The size of the stone should be proportional to the drop of the waterfall.
Aside from these three residential landscape ideas, you can also try varying the form and texture in your landscape design in order for you to spice up a yard with diversity.
