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Exceptional Landscaping Ideas

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Mariam Draper

There is nothing that makes your home more beautiful and attractive than landscaping. Landscaping means the process of planning on your land, laying out all the beautiful aspects, and creating usable space for all your outdoor activities around your home to make it beautiful, productive and appealing. It also involves the process of dividing your land into gardens for different activities.

You find that landscaping is a valuable endeavor that everybody wants to pursue to make their homes look beautiful but do not know where to start. First, you need to understand what you need, what is the perspective that you want, and how you want your home to appear. 

Landscaping ideas

After you understand what you want, you can search for exclusive landscaping ideas from landscaping magazines, articles, blogs and even friends or the most decorated neighborhoods around you. You can also work with a landscaping expert who can help you in coming up with a great idea depending on your custom needs and personality. 

Leveling the compound 

You may find that your home is located on slopes, hilly or rugged ground. The first thing you want to do is to level the compound in such a way that you can have a leveled ground that you may put into use. Level the area while creating small gardens for various purposes. Also, make sure you create reliable drainage that can drain all the water during the rains to protect the plantations from being washed away when heavy rains fall. 

Planting Flowers

Having some flowers around your home display a welcoming theme. You can have a section where you plant various types of flowers and also plant them along the driveway and paths connecting multiple places in your home. You will find a lot of perennials and annuals that can make your home look beautiful. From Roses, Lily-of-the-Nile, Petunia, White roses, Snapdragon, and many more, you will find the flowers that will define your home and also create the most exciting environment for you to dwell. 

Planting Rambling Vines

Including rambling vines in your landscaping ideas bring the most out of your garden. The vines introduce a romantic sensation where they produce green tendrils that wind around the fence to create a beautiful atmosphere. You can choose from delicate to flowering vines or choose the Clematis species that blossoms blue, pink, white, red or purple flowers to bring out the most beautiful environment in your compound. You can plant the vines on a trellis or in containers and let them wind around the length of the fence. 

Dress Up the Driveway

When landscaping, one of the most critical parts of you can’t forget is the driveway. Make sure you sculip the driveway carefully while digging up the soil along to make it ready for planting the flowers. You can lay out the stone along the sides and even choose the perfect color for decorating.

Then you can now plant the short flowers that will transform the drive into one the most beautiful entrance to your home. Ensure that the garden beside the driveway is like a raised island where you can plant roses, lilies, annuals and perennials that will provide a relaxed texture and a great look that will entice you and everybody else driving along the driveway. 

Planters and Baskets for adding height

You also need to mix things up to create a multidimensional home. You can achieve this by selecting a multi-directional landscaping design that will create eye-catching results. You can choose the hanging baskets and also the tall planters that will provide a brilliant visual interest with just a little effort. Besides impressive visual effects, planters and baskets will create a sea of beautiful colors from low to high, which you will need to see every day. 

Blooming Shrubs

Planting some blooming plants will also transform your yard to one of the most exciting places. You can try out different flowers, shrubs, and even those exotic trees which are suitable for your yard to provide some shade. You will notice that you will have plenty of colors flourishing from your yard and garden when each of the plantation blossom, thus creating the most beautiful environment that you can feel relaxed everyday. 

When landscaping, remember to raise the garden level from the driveway level and level the land. Also, make sure to construct a good drainage and aeration system, which is essential for all the plants in your garden and yard. If you don’t have the skills and ideas, you can work with your local landscaping experts who can help you in creating the most amazing and dream landscape in your homestead

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