When planning on designing a garden plan for your home, a lot of details will come into bear. One of them is how to cut leaves into pieces, to ease the decomposing process. You’ll probably need a specialized shredder here.

Your choice of a leaf shredder should be based mainly on where it will be used, and how often it will be used. It does not matter whether you want to redesign your landscape totally or just make a few changes to it, there are so many factors to put into consideration before you start planting. Having a good plan ahead of time helps you pick plants that will suit your needs well and flourish in your landscape.

Landscape Design

Landscape Design

The tips outlined below will aid you in developing a plan to create a beautiful and flourishing landscape:

It is important to note that the intrinsic conditions of your intended garden space will most likely create a microclimate for your landscape. When choosing plants, think of the regional climate, topography of the site, and the soil type.

Landscape Design

The ideal landscape design will ensure that water moves away from your home to the other areas of the yard. You should also consider the people making use of the yard. It is possible to create different spaces for various uses in your landscape, making use of strategic plantings and hard scapes. Create walkways to help people move from one part of the yard to the other. Put a realistic maintenance style and budget into consideration.

Landscape Design

Landscape Design

Use Themes

You can bring themes into play. They help to unite the landscape and also help to guide your selection of plants and materials. They can be as simple as applying constant shapes or forms throughout your yard, or as complex as creating either a relaxation garden or an Oriental garden. While choosing a theme, consider the architecture of your home. Endeavor to complement the style of your home’s architecture in your yard. Themes aid in your choice of plants, decorations, hard scapes and structures. If you want to get the most of your yard, see it as another room in your home. Make use of your materials wisely to carefully define and plan your landscape.

Plants and the Landscape

In the early stages of your planning, determine how your plants will function in your landscape. Plants have various uses; they can offer you fruits and vegetables, beautiful scenery, lovely aromas; they can be used as barriers to define areas in the landscape.

Plants can be used to create physical barriers in the landscape by obstructing both views and access to an area. Also, placing plants rightly helps to change the landscape site conditions. You have to bear in mind that temperature, light levels, and the wind are highly affected by the trees and plants in a landscape.

You can make use of unique plants, clear-cut structures, and garden ornaments to highlight a specific area of the landscape. The use of different shapes, textures, sizes, and colours will help to draw attention to a particular area.

Plants Landscape

Plants Landscape

When choosing plants, think of how the passage of time will affect them in your landscape. Ensure that you consider its growth rate, maintenance needs, and eventual mature size.

You should create room for them to reach their mature size by considering how the intrinsic conditions of your landscape can cause them to grow larger or smaller.  How mature in size a plant gets is based mainly on the optimal growing conditions.

Do you know that you can help to protect and preserve your environment by choosing resource-efficient plants, managing water consciously, and choosing hard scapes that are sound environmentally?

Check if certain plants need to be removed or just moved to another part of the yard, before removing them from the landscape. You can also ensure they grow in optimal environments by using composts of shredded abandoned leaves.

How to Choose the Right Plants

While choosing new plants, go for the resource-efficient ones; plants that need less water, fertilizers, and pesticides. You should consider the installation of a rainwater catchment system that will provide you with an environmentally sustainable source of irrigation water.

Protect your natural resources by making use of hard scapes that are environment-friendly, non-toxic preservatives, stains, paints, and cleaners. You can also reuse your construction materials; extract materials that can be incorporated into your new landscape design.

Landscape Plants

Landscape Plants

In as much as grooming a landscape to be beautiful and flourishing can take a lot of work, it is worth it. Whether you choose to completely redesign your yard or spice up the existing landscape design, these steps will guide you on how to welcome guests and passersby with garden charm:

1.) Limit the number of species of flowering plants, shrubs, and trees, to establish order in the landscape.

Although it is tempting to add more plants that catch your eyes to your landscape, endeavour to have at most 5 to 10 species of perennials, 3 to 5 different shrubs, and 1 or 2 types of trees. This is because fewer species will produce a landscape that holds together well.

2.) Go for planting beds that are large enough to contain your choice of plants.

A good example is a planting bed that covers at least half of the width of the house. Also, keep the planting bed in the same theme as the house by using sweeping beds that extend from the home to the sidewalk or roadway. Planting beds require much less maintenance than the lawn, as they are often anchored by a tree and filled with shrubs.

3.) Plan for year-round thriving.

Make use of evergreen trees and shrubs to add form and texture all year long. Consider adding plant breeders, which are constantly developing dwarf trees and shrubs that maintain their stocky forms for years with minimal pruning. You can also add trees and shrubs that produce food for wildlife to your landscape design. Create room for a scenery of birds flying into your yard to feed on the colourful fruits produces by the trees.