Tuesday, 1 March 2011

3 Great Landscape Design Ideas

By James Burton


Just take a moment and step into your garden. Take a look around you and see what could be wrong with it. When was the last time did you work on it, beautifying it and not just picking up dead leaves? When was the last time a landscaper visited it? Perhaps now is the time for some new landscape design ideas so you will have a better looking garden.

Perhaps you always think that it is a lot of work to keep your garden in perfect condition. However, that should not be the case. A garden is there to be attractive as well as to be practical, and to maintain it will indeed require some work, or money if you just want to pay for a landscaper to do everything yourself. But it will be all worth it in the end whenever you walk through your garden and appreciate its beauty.

To help re-ignite your passion and excite in having a garden, here are some landscape management or landscape design ideas that you can try for your own place.

Why not have a swimming pool?

You may think that this is a too big of an idea, but it actually makes sense. It has a practical side to it. Aside from possibly being the perfect water feature for any garden, it can also provide you with an excellent swimming workout, which is one of the best exercises anyone can get. You can relax in the water while admiring the beautiful flowers and trees around you.

Fountains

You might say, "But my garden is not big enough for a swimming pool!". If that is the case then you can look into having a garden or water fountain installed. Fountains come in various sizes, from some taller than people to something so small, you can carry it around. But it is not really the size that you should worry about, but the design and look that it can add to your garden. Getting the services of a garden landscaper or designer would certainly help.

Vegetable Plants

Why not have a vegetable garden in your own home garden? Maybe not the whole area, but just a portion of it? You can get a lot of savings from your weekly or monthly grocery bills if all of the vegetables that you and your family are always eating are readily available in your own home vegetable garden. This is a great idea especially during these trying times when the economy has not yet fully recovered and a lot of people are either out of work or underemployed. We can surely benefit from a practical idea such as this one. Even the White House has its own vegetable garden which the White House chef makes full use of in feeding the First Family, the staff, and the guests.

Your home garden is there for your keeping and you should not just let it rot away without infusing some new landscape design ideas just to add variety to what is already existing there. There are many things that you and your Melbourne landscaper can do for your garden and not all of these need to have you spending a lot of money just to keep your garden a beautiful part of your home.




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