Maintaining your home’s appearance is a must for the savvy homeowner, whether you’re selling your home or inviting friends and coworkers over, a well-manicured front lawn can convey a solid, positive first impression of both the property and its owner. It’s one of those unspoken rules, a universally understood principle that is part of keeping up a home. However, what is often understated and lesser-known is the impact a meticulously sculpted backyard can have on visitors to your humble abode.
With careful planning, frequent maintenance, and the occasional drastic renovation, visitors to your home may find that when they step outside into your backyard, they’ve walked through a portal to the magical, mystical land of their childhood dreams.
Your home is your paradise, your domain, your pocket in which everything is under your control, and you can sculpt your surroundings to your liking to represent you and effectively serve your needs.
While most homeowners either write off their backyards as unimportant (as it’s unlikely their local homeowners’ association is going to pop behind their fences like paparazzi, trying to get a picture of the neighborhood scandal) or maintain them on a surface level, the wise homeowner will see their backyard as the well of untapped potential that it is, a lump of modeling clay that they can craft into a masterpiece. All that’s needed is a fundamental understanding of the tools of the trade and how to use them to execute your vision of your dream backyard.
Fortunately, by following a few essential steps, anyone can remodel their backyard and make it into an eye-pleasing, stress-relieving paradise. Without further ado, here’s a brief guide to DIY landscaping.
Grow a Vibrant Garden
Learning how to grow and maintain a garden is no easy task, especially for those of us who are beginners or those who are without a green thumb. However, your first step should be to choose a good location to seed it; one that is likely to get plenty of sunlight, one that you can frequently water without expending too much effort, and one that is guaranteed to draw eyes when people visit your backyard.
You should also plan out what kinds of plants you want, paying attention to color scheme, as well as which varieties are likely to grow in different seasons. The worst thing imaginable would be to expend effort watering a crop for months, only to realize your plants are out of season and won’t live long once grown.
Once your garden is seeded, set up an irregular watering regimen, watering your plants deeply and thoroughly once a week. While the conventional wisdom suggests watering your plants shallowly daily, the problem with that is that your plants will become dependent on daily waterings, their roots not having the proper incentive to grow deep and strong. Irregular watering, on the other hand, makes your plants as hardy as they are beautiful.
Ornamentation and Construction of Structures
Depending on the area you have to work with, you might find that there’s little room for statues and…