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SEVERAL LANDSCAPING IDEAS FOR YOUR HOME

8/14/2018

 
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The entrance area is the place where your guest experiences your landscape. So let your lawn be the envy of the neighborhood with such unique landscaping ideas for your home. However, you can do this on your own by becoming as creative as possible. We present you do it yourself methods for making your hose entrance distinctive.

GENERATE A FOCAL POINT 
To make your yard look attractive, firstly you need to create a focal point with the help of berms. Well, the berms create to help in drainage. In fact, you can also create it for building island beds. We are saying this because it is much more interesting than the plain green grass. In this regard, you have to keep in mind the height of the berm which usually is 2 feet high. There are some favorite berm plants that you can use, for instance, evergreen blue spruce, perennial periwinkle, and azaleas.
 
ADD STURDY EDGING 
Edging adds professional details in your lawn. Although, you have to follow certain rules before you put edging around the grass. However, do not make a mistake by selecting the plastic stuff. Instead buy the more rigid and robust material such as steel, fiberglass or aluminum. The following tips to install edging around the greenery.
  • Lay out a line in your favorite pattern
  • Then dust the chalk powder or flour to mark the pattern
  • Select the spade to make an opening around the edging
  • In the last tap the edge into the slit along with rubber mallet.
 
CHOOSE EVERGREEN BUSHES 
One of the secrets for landscaping the house is to select evergreen shrubs. It is to give your lawn color-year around. Remember to consider short-needles and thick bushes for this purpose. Along with the type of the shrubs, the size is important as well, therefore, look for dwarf varieties. Before you choose the shrubs for your lawn, draw the rough sketch of your house. Then see in which pattern these bushes will look more eyes catching. In this way can avoid such mistakes which most of the home owners do.
 
 
LIGHT UP THE AREA 
Lighting the landscape does not only seem aesthetically pleasing, but at the same time, it can keep you away from falling. Lighting increases the safety by making sure the obstacles are observable.
 
KEEP THE WALKWAY CLEAN 
Without any doubt, no one adores the messy entrance of the home. If you want to make your sidewalks clean and dirt less then gear up to get following essentials now.
  • You need sidewalks cleaner
  • A Spray for tank
  • Scrub brushes which are large
  • Water Hose
              That is how you can quickly convert dirty walk way into the clean and modest one.

Thanks for reading our landscaping Ideas from LandscapingLockhart.com
The ideas that we present in this write up does not require much effort. Most importantly, the stuff you are going to use for landscaping will not ask you to invest more bucks. In short, anyone can easily afford all the materials. 
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    I am David Watts, a pastor at West Lake Hills Bible Church. My blog is intended to share landscaping tips with our community.

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