Great Ways To Improve Your Landscape Design

There's no doubt about it. Modern methods of cultivation and livestock rearing have given us bigger and better-shaped vegetables and better-looking meat, but what's happened to the taste?

With some lighting your home can look exquisite. Because lighting can easily give that dramatic effect, you're able to highlight certain features of your property with a lighting system. For instance, a garden can look so much better if it didn't have any dark spots. With a lighting system, the landscape design of your garden will be greatly visible and enhanced in the evenings.

To move your sketch up a level, use garden design software which can be downloaded from the web for free. This will give you far more in-depth ideas about what you can achieve with your garden and what the finished product will look like.

Create a multi-seasonal garden to make the most of your landscaping endeavors. Choose an array of plants that burst with blooms at different times of the year, making sure they are appropriate for your zone. Evergreen trees and exotic tree species with notable foliage can also help preserve your landscape's year-round appeal.

Third, translate your intentions into specific goals. A mid-step might be to visualize more details, such as, green grass in the middle of the yard, bright yellow and red flowers to the left blooming in May, a maple tree behind the steps, tomatoes, lettuce and beans to the right by the wall. Goals are more specific than intentions and typically carry a completion time with them. Once you name a goal, your mind will naturally start to add other factors such as resources, money, time, and your gardener skills. Sticking with the gardening analogy, if your goal is to have a shade tree by next fall, you can back out the size desired, type of tree, cost, care instructions, and when to plant.

India Hawthorne or Rhaphiolepis indica: Very exotic looking shrub. Excellent choice for business John French Landscapes or front yard homes. Beautiful bright pink flowers only in early spring. Can tolerate shade and moderate grower. Their are many varieties some with darker pink blooms. Anywhere from 2ft tall to 5ft tall depending on the variety. Width is about 4ft Grows up to 4ft tall and wide.

After years of spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars each spring on Annuals, I slowly started to replace annuals with perennials. I know you will say 'but annuals have color all summer long.' Yes they do but a carefully planned out perennial garden can not only have color all summer long but will have a much wider variety of colors and textures. The only down side is perennials do require more maintance but it's well worth it.