Landscaping Home

When winter is here and the days grow short it seems like many things are dead and everything seems so lifeless. I found that adding just the right equipment to your landscaping will attract winter friend into your yard. Watching these winter friends interact with each other will give you great pleasure. I have young children in my home and one summer we decided to make our yard more attractive for winter birds. These winter birds came into our lives and made our winter months something great. If you would want to persuade the winter birds to make their homes near you and your family then you will need to take a good look at your landscaping and see what you have and what you will need to encourage the feathered friend to fly your way during

Are the plants a little bit obscured by your overreaching porch? These are legitimate problems, but fortunately for you, you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars an hour just to fix these trivial details. Instead, there's quite a few things you can do to spice up your landscape design all by yourself. Here are five critical, unique ideas you can use to add a bit more flavor to your do-it-yourself landscape design: Install a Fountain Nothing attracts more attention to your home than an elaborate, flowing fountain on the front lawn. The fountain emulates elegance, confidence, and relaxation, qualities that should define your home. In addition, fountains are great because of the soothing sound that they produce all throughout the day. Even at night, you can enjoy a night outside with a few other people and listen to the water gently flowing. In essence, owning a fountain is practically the equivalent of having a small creek in your backyard (like I do, and from personal experience, I can say they sound absolutely stunning). Best of all, you can purchase fairly cheap fountains which won't steal the all of the attention yet add a significant touch to your landscape design. Layer Your Flowers One line of flowers is okay, no matter how pretty they are; fortunately, we both know that you can do better than that. It's far more attractive to layer your flowers by having about three rows of them lined one behind the other. Physically, the eyes aren't forced to fit a lengthy image into a small field of view, and are instead focused on one small area with rows of flowers. If your plants vary in height, it's important to make sure that your plants in the back are tallest and the shortest are in front. Simplicity is Good If you have hours to spend on your yard, then you won't if it's high-maintenance. For the majority of us, though, we don't like to spend that much time in our yard. We want it to look nice and let it