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Where Do You Want To Landscape
Where to landscape around your home can be a bit of a dilemma. The options are only limited by your imagination and the geography of your plot of land.
When determining where to landscape, take the time to look around at your neighbor's homes and drive through neighborhoods that appeal to you. Look at the arrangement of trees, shrubs and plants around the property, but also look at the varied choices people make concerning where to place those groupings of color and greenery. This is a great way to get idea for what you can do with your own property.
Most people choose to put formal bordered garden areas around the perimeter of their home. Some choose straight lines, others choose scalloped borders to soften and add curves to the landscape. This is a matter of personal style, and maintenance. Mowing around a curved edge may be a little more difficult than a straight edge. If this is important to you, consider it before designing the border.
There are other opportunities for landscaping all around your home, you just have to choose where you want them! Many people will put in beautiful flower beds around free standing mailboxes and outdoor lights. Another choice that has become very popular is to landscape around large, freestanding trees. The cultivated beds placed strategically around objects like trees, mailboxes and other fixtures solves another problem. It is very difficult to mow effectively really close to one of these objects. Where flower beds are allowed to fill in, the borders are extended, so getting close to the object is no longer necessary.
Wherever you have fixed items in your yard, you can consider those areas candidates for landscaping of some sort. Around the sides of a garage, and certainly to beautify a patio, deck or swimming pool area. Don't forget to consider free standing garden areas, as well. A house with a large yard, on a busy street, can create a little privacy by placing a large landscaped patch between the house and road. When done right, the plantings provide privacy for you, while enhancing the curb appeal of your property.
Every part of your property is a candidate for effective landscaping. Where there is a border, there can be plants and flowers. And you are never limited by the shape of buildings or objects, only by your own imagination. Filling in an otherwise boring landscape with beautiful areas of planned groupings of plants, can turn an ordinary yard into a showplace.
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