9 Tips for Landscaping Your Yard in 2020

How to Landscape Your Yard to Look Better in 2020?

A word to add here about the main key to a brilliant landscaping job is to know where are the limits of our work in terms of space, budget, and ability. Because any increment of those three elements will lead to bad revenue over the whole project. The basic landscape designs consist of:

- The weather issues, affect everything from the construction itself to the plantation and the types of trees that should be planted.

- The nature of the soil issues. A property's soil type differs from one area to another. That’s why studies might be done on every case independently, and not in general.

Organized Garden with stone pavers and pergolas- Photo www.i.ytimg.com

- The basics issues. All the planning basics must be organized into clear targets, from the basic structure to the types of plants used. Those must constitute the road to follow to get the project to life, without forgetting the complete and detailed cost of work.

- Maintenance issues. The best solution is to create parallel drawings that locate critical points to review. Actually, it's close to the process of design in architecture, in its technical aspects.

At the end of the design procedure, the good thing is that it can give competent value to the property.

For your backyard to be complete, do not forget to include some spaces for a daily relaxing session such as pergolas or covered patios within the landscaped zone. These areas can be furnished with various outdoor seating fixtures, that can extend your inner living room to the outside in a great way. Read more about this topic...

Landscaping your Yard | Tips for a Successful Landscape Design

Here are some topics to avoid common mistakes in landscaping your yard:

1- Plan for Height (3D). Don't simply think about your garden space as a flattened level layout, consider it as a cubic shape stretching out into the void. That's what we call in technical terms, three-dimensional design (3D in short).

Plan to fill your perspectives while you're watching straight out, as well as looking down at the ground, and keep in mind what will look admirable at each level. This would incorporate trees, bushes, shrubs, planters, and hanging baskets.

2- It all depends on the space you have; this looks to be logical but most designers seem to forget this principle. If the space you have is large and wide then you can use big trees and sizable plantations otherwise you have to limit your imagination to reflect a smaller space.

Suburban residential villa with trees, Photo by Max Vakhtbovych from Pexels

By following this rule you might decrease unnecessary expenses that can be used in other more profitable manners.

3- Don’t Ignore the Architectural Elements. Do highlights or remarkable points, for example, statues, decking, pathways, seating, and a water fountain if available, as target places of your design such as resting points within a promenade. Actually, they will work much better if they are part of the general concept from the beginning, not as a reconsideration that has come after.

Likewise, do the same for the rainstorms and the crucial places where the rainwater collects.

Is there a common breeze that drives the rain essentially one way? Are there drier areas because of existing fencing or constructions? When the water gets on the ground, are there zones where water gathers, because of inclines or slopes, like pathways, that adjust the way the water collects?… etc …

A decent understanding of how water and light work in your garden area can guide your decisions with plants and where they have to be planted or not, just as the location of feature highlights described in topic #4.

5- Keeping some Existing features from the old Scenery. Keep in mind the reuse of existing elements like beautiful old trees and ornaments as much as you can, but only if it will be fully integrated within your future concept; it is agreed that those constraints can bring additional complications to your project, but if you succeed doing so it will save you a lot of money.

6- Designing for all Seasons. Consider how you need the garden to look during each season and make your designs accordingly. It's great to have multi-colored bunches of roses and foliage in the spring and summer, but what will those look like during the colder seasons?

Think about evergreen plantations such as olive or small pine trees.

7- Start by choosing a Design Concept. Some surface lots impose the usage of specific design concepts regarding their soil nature and type of leveling. For example, the low-sloped zones are ideal for a water garden with willow trees, small waterfalls, and fountains around. Water playground games are an option to be considered if applicable in that case.

8- Try to make Original Designs. Fundamental advice: Don’t use copied designs in your concept because each type of garden has its own study to make; i.e. you might find yourself attracted to an expensive but inappropriate design that will not fit your piece of land to manage.

In such a case, the study should be reviewed in depth. Make sure you're getting exactly what you want because it will save a lot of money, as well as get the best possible results.

9- Remember, the best solutions are not always expensive. Design features don't need to be costly. Actually, the best designs are valued according to their functionality, and not to their costliness.

Finally, designing practical landscaping can be as simple or as complex according to your way of conceiving the whole process. Following the previous 9 steps may help you figure it out.

Related Book Recommendation

• Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass by Author: Liz Primeau