LaNdScaPiNg BaCkYaRd

The backyard is your canvas; your landscape design skills will determine the beauty of the resulting picture.

LaNdsCaPiNg EdGinG

Landscape beds benefit from some sort of landscape edging, whether the edge is cut with a sharp spade or it's more of a permanent landscape edging made from plastic, metal or masonry products. In addition to creating a well-defined border on a flower bed, edging helps prevent the spread of stoloniferous grasses into the bed area.

 

 

 

 

LaNdScaPiNg EdGiGg

StoNe LaNdScaPiNg

• Sandstone Landscaping: The most common colors of sandstone used for landscaping are buff, brown, blue, black and pink. They are usually used for making walls.

• Slate Landscaping: The common colors used for landscaping are black, green and red. These stones are very strong and resistant to water.

• Marble Landscaping: These are fine grained. The common shades are pink, white, black, yellow and brown. These stones are strong and have high water absorption. They are used mostly as slabs for walls and for paving.
• Limestone Landscaping: These stones have very low water absorption. They are used for walls and the common shades are grey, black, white and buff.
• Granite Landscaping: These are fine to medium-course grained and are very strong. They are used for walls and stepping stones. The common shades are pink and red. 

     

LaNdsCaPinG ToOls (GaRdeN)

petrol brush cutter are useful for cleaning tough grass, scrub  and forest sands, as well as for moving on difficult and in orchards  

hoW tO pLaN a LaNdsCaPe

 Step 1With paper and pencil in hand, you will begin your first draft out in your yard.  You will estimate footage for now, and rough out a general layout of your yard.Once you have completed the first step (for any areas you are planning on planting), you will begin taking notes right on the page. If you have a great deal of new planting space, this will be more than one page. Everything you think ofshould go on the page. If you run out of space, don't worry, just write smaller, as this is (again), your final draft.

Step 2 While you walk your property, identify your plants or trees, and analyze them. This of how large some of your planting choices will be at full maturity. Will they need continual pruning to keep from creating damage to your property? Will they grow over drives and walkways? Will they block the view from your windows, or make entering your doors difficult? Scary thought but can a burglar hide behind them. Think ahead! With this information in hand about all the existing landscape, decide now what must go

 

Step 3 you will begin to consider the maintenance that will be involved. For landscaping, start only with your large "foundation" plants. Use dwarf varieties around your walkways, and buy perennials, or bulbs instead of annuals. This saves you time and money, as they come back every year, as bulbs also multiply each year. Write down these timesaving, and many times money saving ideas. Make another big note to yourself: Even though it may be pretty now...keep your maintenance down, by designing and caring for your yard a little bit at a time.

Step 4 Use the right tool for the job.
* Choose plants suited for your site.
* On a steep, hard-to-mow slope, build terraces to break the slope into steps.
* Do not struggle with sparse, weedy grass weeding, under trees, surround trees with beds of shade loving plants.
* Avoid using sharp angles or fussy curves when planning flowerbeds. It makes mowing around them easier.
* Reduce lawn to mow, and use low maintenance ground cover, or install decking.
* Choose disease free insect resistant, trees and plants.
* Plant inclines with groundcovers. Creeping thyme is good and very fragrant.
* Choose plants, which do not have messy droppings, such as seedpods, sap, or large flowers.
* Use a mulching lawn mower. Remember grass clippings are high in nitrogen, and our plants love it.

wHat iS LaNdScaPiNg

Landscaping should be a means of creating an environment that enhances a person's lifestyle and enhances the area in which they are actually doing this enhancement, which might encompass many different things.