What's the Easy Way for Beautiful Landscaping on a New Home?
I don’t have much of a green thumb. My contractor will add mulch and a few basic green bushes. How can I beautify the landscaping. The home will be complete in 4-8 weeks, but I can plant before then. I love perenials, but what else? I can do potted plants, but the in the ground things always seem to die.
Ideas?
Related posts
Tagged with: Beautiful • green bushes • green thumb • Landscaping • love • Mulch • Potted Plants
Filed under: Your Garden Q and A
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
Your best best is to go to the nearest garden center and see what is available in your area. If you live in a cold climate then wait on the potted plants.
Here are some links for inspiration on planting.
You might want to consider some fruit trees or berries.
http://www.starkbros.com/?fc=1
http://www.gardenwrightnurseries.com/pages/inventory.html
http://www.pikenursery.com/subchannel_php_loc_01_01_00.html
Click on **Next 10 ** lower right hand corner.
Burpees Flowers, annuals, perennials and bulbs
http://www.burpee.com/home.do
Jackson&Perkins Roses perrenials and bulbs
http://www.jacksonandperkins.com/gifts/store/BECHomePageView?storeId=10053&catalogId=10005&langId=-1
http://www.edmundsroses.com/
Take your time to decide because once you plant it unless you want to keep moving it you’ll have to look at it there for along time.
Use the Lowes link for drag and click garden design . It’s free.
How-To Videos
We’ll show you how
Landscape Planner
Deck Planner
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=categorySelect&category=Project%20Planning&Ne=10000&N=0
Use Lowe’s Landscape and Garden Planner to help build the yard of your dreams. With our design tool, garden and landscape planning are as easy as clicking and dragging.
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=Down_to_Earth/GardenPlanner/gardenplansplash.html&lks=pcgp1
You have to register all that is is for sending you sale bills.
This is enough to keep you busy waiting for warmer weather.
Have fun expecially on the garden planner.
do a lilac tree or a weeping willow those two trees will look icredable on your property.go down to your local greenhouse and ask the person there for some advice and to show you around you will come out of there with exactly what you want.
If you can afford a landscaper hire one. No one can tell what your property looks like to benefit you home. Sod and evergreens are basic. You have to know where to place them. Beautiful landscaping is the first thing you see when you come up to a beautiful home.
Japanese Maple trees are beautiful, but can be a bit pricey depending on what size you buy. Baby trees are cheaper and just fine. They will gow and the leaves and shape is amazing.
Hi:
I am a landscaper and designer. I have done many new constructions and one thing I like to tell my clients is to do phase planting. You can think about starting with base planting. Consider doing a few trees that are easy growing and don’t require much maintenance. The type of trees will depend on your geographic location. Emerald Greeen Arborvitaes are fast growers and require little work. A couple of Maple or ornamental trees will work for shade if you need it.
Container gardens are great for people that are new to landscaping and gardening. Container plants do have to be watererd more often.
Planting herbs is also another easy way to bring some color and aroma to your landscape. They are easy to grow and also to maintain.
Properly preparing your ground is the key to successful landscaping. I will link you to the plan – prep – plant page of my website. Read through the different steps in doing gardens and this may help you. I will also link you to the gallery of plants section as this has a lot of different trees, shrubs, and flowers. There are pictures as well as descriptions and zones of a variety of plants specimens. This could also help you out in picking out ones that might interest you. I will also link you to the site map, as this has everything that is on the website. There are many different articles as well as tips and tecnichques that may be useful. In the landscape article section, there is some information on new construction and dealing with your builder.
Good luck to you and if you need some further help, please feel free to contact me at the website. Have a great day! There is also a complete design in the examples of landscape design section for new homes. You might want to check it out to get some ideas.
Kimberly
http://www.landscape-solutions-for-you.com/plan.html
http://www.landscape-solutions-for-you.com/Gallery.html
http://www.landscape-solutions-for-you.com/Site.html