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Some Practical Ideas for Designing You Own Landscape
Practical Design IdeasBy: Ken AsselinDesigning your own home landscapecan be both exciting and challenging. If you are considering such a project, here are some practical ideas and suggestions.Planning the ProjectPlanning your landscape designis the first and most important step. Take the time to gather theinformation you will need to make your decisions on the elements you wish to include in your landscape design. Will you want a deck, patio, foot paths, walkways, a pond? What type of plants, trees, flowers, and ground cover will you want to use? You should research books,articles, and landscape design magazines to help you make these decisions. This will pay off inthe end by saving you money, time, and frustration, enabling you end up with a beautifullyfinished project to be proud of.The DesignThe landscape design is your next step. You will need to make a layout of the area to belandscaped, as close to scale as possible, and with accurate measurements. Many landscapedesign planning guides that will give you step-by-step instructions are available on the internet for free, and books or e-Books are abundant. Once your landscape design layout is done you canbegan to place your elements on the layout pad. This should be your first or preliminary plan andas you progress, changes can be transferred to your secondary or updated plans. Changing your mind often is just fine. After all this is just on paper at this point and you have not spent anymoney or performed any labor yet. Experimenting with a few plans is necessary before you comeup the final landscape design. A well planned landscape will never look the same in differentseasons. Plan your landscape design to change with the seasons. You should attempt to designyour landscape as maintenance free as possible.Landscape Design SoftwareIf it is hard for you to visualize your finished landscape design by just looking at your layout, thereis some very good landscape design software available. Much of the landscape design softwarewas originally developed for professional landscapers, but since has been modified for thebeginner who wants to do-it-themselves. There are many do-it-yourself landscape designsoftware programs available today. Landscape design software lets you see a virtual picture of the landscape design and enables you to move items around and see the changes you makecome to life. Some software allows you to import a photo of your home or building and designsthe landscape around the photo. Most landscape design software programs offer advice on usingand placing the many different elements available today in your landscape design. A welldesigned landscape will always change with time, and some of the landscape design softwareavailable will allow you to view your landscape as it matures. You can see what it will look like 5or 10 years from now when the trees have grown and the plants matured.GardensMany people like to incorporate aHome Vegetable Garden in their landscape design. Gardens can be tucked away in the corner of an area, or be the focal point of the entire landscape design.Gardens can even be strategectly placed among the plants, flowers and trees so they blend inwith the entire landscape design. If you like to garden, don’t overlook all the garden designpossibilities when planning your landscape design.
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