Beautify Your Yard with Simple Landscaping Ideas
Before the long hot days set in, consider tackling your landscaping projects now to spice up your summer events. Tailoring the appearance of your home is one of the many ways to create an amazing space that reflects your style. Catch the eye of your neighbors or compliments from family members with a little lawn TLC. Stuck on where to start? There are easy DIY landscaping ideas that will have a high impact on your home without spending huge money. “Your front yard may be the first place you want to renovate. It’s the first thing everyone sees when passing by or visiting your house.” (Claim Quote)
Here’s how you can beautify your garden with simple landscaping ideas:
- Focus on Entry Way
- Create Geometric Patterns
- Add a Garden
- Use Ornamental Grasses
- Small Cuttings
- Consider Rich & Dark Colors
- Choose Fragrant Flowers
Focus on Entry Way
You can make a great impression on all visitors by focusing on the entrance of your home. Having a freshly painted front door or decorating with potted plants can give your entryway a new look.
Create Geometric Patterns
If you have some unused brick or tile from previous DIY projects and unused ground space on your patio, try creating geometric patterns or even mosaic patterns from tile or concrete. You can also try to use broken or recycled pavers in the mosaic pattern. This will give your entryway a unique and modern appearance. Customize it any way you want!
Add a Garden
It’s easy to give a visual focal point to your yard or patio by adding beautiful plants of all sizes. If you want to make a cost-efficient flower choice, then you should consider planting with perennials such as baptisia, buddleia, coneflower, astilbe, kangaroo paw, and so on. You could also consider making your flower selection based on local blossoms. These flowers will grow year after year and be kind to pollinators. “Adding a garden to your home may be the best decision you ever made. It’s beautiful, fun to take care of, and good for the environment.” (Claim Quote)
Use Ornamental Grasses
The combination of perennial flowers and green grasses adds texture and a modern look to your home garden. If you want to make your landscape look neat and clean, then consider blue oat grass, flax, fountain grass, little bluestem, zoysia, and feather reed grass. Moss and clovers are also interesting options to consider if you want something a little different than traditional grass and also require less maintenance. Depending on your climate, this option could provide a green lawn 365 days of the year.
Small Cuttings
Adding foliage and other small plants is an easy way to boost your curb appeal. You can focus on small cuttings of certain plants such as butterfly bushes and succulents. Or, try taking clippings of the local fauna to propagate and replant in your yard. This option could prove beneficial for local pollinators as well. These plants will grow amazingly from clippings and enhance the look of your house’s exterior.
Consider Rich & Dark Colors
Adding dark-leaved begonias and dahlias in your garden creates a magical combination along with grass and gives your yard a whimsical feel. There are many types of foliage available, check out your local plant nursery. Consider growing black or purple foliage to give your garden an incredible and unique appearance.
Choose Fragrant Flowers
You can choose fragrant flowers and herbs to grow in window and planter boxes. Putting these containers in your balcony or next to the kitchen door will allow the scents to fill your home and greet those passing by.
Considering all these ideas will add a unique appearance to your garden. So, get creative and beautify your yard with these simple landscaping ideas.
