Ideas For Landscaping

4 DIY Landscaping Ideas that Professional Don’t Want You to Know

The idea of designing your own landscape must have occurred every once in a while within everyone's mind. You see your neighbor's beautiful landscape and then you thought, "Hey! I know that I could do a better job on my own." The energy and inspiration are there but somehow you realize that you lack the skills and knowledge to do it. In the end, your landscaping ideas are just for nothing.

Why Is It So Hard to Make Your Landscaping Ideas Come True

For professionals, making one's landscaping ideas come true seems like a piece of cake. You can tell that even when they just looked at it only by gazing upon it, suddenly they already know what went wrong and what needs to be done.

So then, what is their secret? In order to make your landscaping ideas come true, here are the secrets of professional landscaping designer that you can follow. Yes even you, a novice gardener, can actually follow these simple steps.

1. Figure Out what Is Important.

Yes, you don't need to copy your neighbor's garden. If your neighbor Tom who has five family members owns a huge back yard with swimming pool and kids’ slider would you, a newlywed with 9 to 5 want one?

What you need perhaps the kind of a moonlight garden that could be your escape place from your everyday routine with your loved ones.

2. Do the Hard Part First.

Don't get too eager to set any plant yet. Yes, a garden should be all about plants but you need to think of the utility as well. How is anyone going to roam through it without stepping on your plant if you are not constructing any pathway?

3. Keep It Simple.

You don’t have to be so extravagant to make your garden look like a celebrity house which you can only see in MTV Cribs. Just keep it simple, not only in terms of design but also in budget. Make good use of flowering shrubs, vines and perennials.

Do keep in mind that simplicity here also means easier for you to manage your garden every day.

4. Beauty.

The beauty of your garden is in the eye of the beholder, and that is you. If you think that your garden is already enough, then it should be enough. You do

n’t need to turn your garden into a specimen garden by buying one of each plant.

What you need is to plant in a group of odd numbers. Make it in harmony by mixing a color that complements each other like pink with lilac and yellow with blue.

There you have it, the four simple ways to turn your landscaping ideas into a reality that only professionals could have done. Once again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and once you already satisfied with your garden, then you don’t need anyone’s advice anymore.