Wednesday, October 5, 2011

How To Add a Garden to Your Up Coming Landscaping Venture

By Jill K. Thompson


Developing your own landscape designs can be challenging and exciting.

Should you be thinking about taking up such a project, here are a few tips.

The most significant step certainly is the first step, designing your landscape plan. Before making any finalized decisions about exactly what will be incorporated in your design, there is a good deal of information you need to gather. Would you choose a pond? Pathways? What about a patio or deck? It's important to decide before you begin working.

Additionally, there will be a huge selection of flowers, plants and trees from which to choose. In the event that you need a little help, check on the web for landscaping articles and books, and pick up a few landscaping magazines. In the long run, this kind of research will all be worth it, because you'll have a finished project that is beautiful, and you were spared time, money and frustration.

Now, if you've finished the planning stage, you're ready to get going with the actual design. Usually, if you have the capability, the best thing you can do is build an exact scale model.

You can find lots of step-by-step guides, showing you how to do this, and they are available on the internet for free. It is easy to begin simply by using a layout pad to position the different elements you want where you want them; you can fiddle with this to your heart's content. Try things out a bit.

And do not forget the seasonal component of things - you want to make sure your design will look good all year long. One more significant factor in your design would be that the landscape should be as free of maintenance as possible.

Since it is difficult to visualize what your design will look like in reality, purchase some good landscape designing software. It will allow you to see virtual pictures of your design to where you can even move things and see what it will look like. You can utilize a photo of your house, which is imported into the software, and the software then designs the landscape around the photo. Many of the applications give you advice on placing the different elements.

Some programs even let you see how things will change as time passes and everything ages and grows. It will help you see what your landscape will eventually look like, in case you want to make some changes.

Not everybody wants a garden in their landscape layout, but many want it as the main focal point. Location of a garden or gardens is going to be completely up to you - just make sure everything works well together. In some cases you may elect to tuck your garden away, unseen and awaiting discovery. When gardening is something you like to do, make sure that you don't forget about all of the possibilities in designing your garden.




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