Hiring a Professional is an Investment!
The right landscaping can improve your home’s curb appeal exponentially, and bring joy and comfort to you as a homeowner. Proper landscaping can help make yards and gardens more usable, by defining spaces for different uses, and can provide privacy and a noise barrier.
Hiring a professional landscaper, knowledgeable in which plants and trees are most appropriate for your climate, soil conditions and topography, is an investment that can save you time, money and heartache in the long run. Sure, that exotic plant might look gorgeous in the seed catalogue or at the nursery, but do you know, and are you really going to try to replicate, all the conditions necessary to make it grow as beautifully as the picture, if it’s not suited to your area?
A professional landscaper can help you avoid some of the most common gardening mistakes that can kill the plants you’ve gone to the time and expense of planting on your own. These include:
- Incorrect placement. The most common mistake most people make is not knowing how large the tree or plant will be at maturity, how much space the root system needs, and not planning accordingly.
- Bad exposure. The exposure that the planted items receive will have an affect on their size and health. Knowing what plants do better in shade or sunlight, how much drainage they need, how wind-resistant they are, how salt-tolerant if near the coast, are all important factors to consider when making your landscaping plan.
- Interference in maintenance of surrounding area. Be aware how the maintenance of your landscape will be affected by its design. Does a landscaped area interfere with being able to easily mow your lawn? Do all the colors work with other colors in the normal line of vision? Will that tree be constantly dropping leaves, flowers or fruit, making the surrounding areas messy?
- Excessive maintenance of the landscaping itself. Are the plants you are considering appropriate for the water conditions in your area? Are you willing to prune fruit trees, rosebushes, etc as often as needed (or hire a service that will)?
Working with a professional landscaping service will help insure that your yard and garden brings you happiness and beautifies your home, and that your plantings are appropriate to your design and to the degree of maintenance you are willing to commit to. Enjoy your yard, don’t be a slave to it!
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