Sometimes it can be hard to come up with ideas, especially if you’re not the creative type? But, don’t let that stop you from your search for the perfect garden.
Finding the best landscaping ideas is one of the easiest things in the world to do, it is amazing more people are not pros at it by now. Trees can contribute to the overall appearance of your front yard perhaps more than almost any other part of your landscaping design.
By doing some advance planning and research, you can lay out an eye pleasing and functional design for your front yard landscaping ideas. Other easy landscaping ideas for your front yard are trees and shrubs. When looking at pictures of landscaping, pay attention to the details, ideas, and principles that are universal to most designs.
With just a little bit of time and attention as mentioned above, you can insure that your shrubs stay looking beautiful year in and year out, and always reflect well on your landscaping design. There are a lot of varieties of evergreen trees that accomplish many different tasks in a home landscaping design.
A good way to get the whole family in on the backyard landscaping is to plant trees or flowers together. Shrubs stake out the middle ground in landscaping designs, as they are larger than flowers and yet smaller than trees. Using a variety of flowers in landscaping can keep the area beautiful and fragrant.
Usually the one element that is omitted from landscaping projects and that is the use of stones or small boulders. A very famous and age old landscaping idea is the ‘circular drive design’, based on the principle of unity, which involves the use of various bed levels to create an effect. Create levels in your garden to distinguish various areas as per the function of the garden.
How far you bury your rock in the ground will depend upon the landscaping rock that you select. If you are looking for something to make your backyard pop out and stand out from the crowd in order to deliberate your personality, then why don’t you go for it! If you are looking for a fun and wild spot to spend time with friends and relatives, then what a better place than your backyard? If you are someone who wants to use your backyard for the family and friends to come over and enjoy barbecues and spend time together, then there are many choices for you.
Shrubs are the perfect fit to any garden landscaping idea. Another benefit to using desert landscaping friendly plants is, that not only will these plants do well even in the hot sun; they will also be able to flourish in the low quality soil common to these climate zones. Obviously, these plants won’t be the best choice for every climate.
A good landscaping advice for the front-yard of your house is to always keep it simple. Try to choose only 2-3 different bushes from the same family. Whatever you do, don’t plant every bush that your friends and neighbor may give you. Your landscaping will start looking like a jungle!
Just remember the old saying “Keep It Simple.”
Clifton Waldrep
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I am looking for a website/design tool to design a garden and landscaping before I actually plant. Any ideas?
am looking for a way to help see my landscaping and gardening come together before I start planting and landscaping. Any ideas of websites or tools that let you put in a design of your house and fencing and start from there?
best bet is to go on bbc and download virtual gardn you can design where you put things and its all free!
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If your outdoor inspiration needs a little help, here is the tool you need.
Use Lowe’s Landscape and Garden Planner to help build the yard of your dreams. With our design tool, garden and landscape planning are as easy as clicking and dragging.
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=Down_to_Earth/GardenPlanner/gardenplansplash.html
All you have to do to use it is to sign up for their weekly ads.
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above link
myself
There is a good free online tutorial at http://www.bewaterwise.com on how to plan a landscape, that includes some good tools like a landscape goals assessment, how to find suitable plants, and how to develop a plot plan. The downside is that you still develop the plot plan on paper, but it walks you through the steps in an easy to follow way. There is also a great list of 1,000 plants that you can search by color, size or sun/shade needs, and much more.
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http://www.bewaterwise.com/training/LandscapeDesignBasics/FlashExport/webfiles/Tutorial.html
There are many, many pieces of design software on the market today. From professional versoins costing thousands of dollars to free versions. So I think the best thing to do is give you a couple of links and chech out the free software from google.
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http://the-landscape-design-site.com/blog/2008/01/free-landscaping-software-list-of-free-software/
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/landscaping-projects/landscape-plans/;jsessionid=ETXKY4Y5VQLXFQFIBQ4R42Q
http://www.consumersearch.com/home-design-software
http://sketchup.google.com/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-sk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=landscape%20architect%20software
It’s better to use multiple websites and make your own decisions on the problem. I think it will help you more.
http://www.aerogardenkit.com
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