Backyard and Garden Makeovers
A Collection of 49 Tips and Ideas for Converting Your
Outdoor Area Into Your Own Special Space
The First Steps of a Backyard Makeover
The reason many people are able to affect such positive results in recreating their backyards is they address the blight within their backyard first. This means all those dandelions, long grass and weeds that need to be pulled up along with discards of trash.
Before you can have a garden makeover, you need to take care of all the preceding unsightly elements first.
Many people look at this particular type of situation and wonder what the best approach to is begin a backyard makeover project. Looking at your situation realistically; discards will need to be hauled away. Secondly, you will need to consider what tools are needed to take care of the weeds and long grass.
Gloves are necessary in order to protect your hands. The hand protection is particularly necessary if your work requires you to take down certain shrubs full of thorns, or even less movable objects such as rickety fences and gates and the like.
Some people will use a garden trowel in order to take up unsightly weeds. If you are unable to bend properly you might want to consider a tool that allows you to stand when ridding yourself of the discouraging weedy condition.
The idea here is to think about first what it is you need to take out of view and prepare with the proper tools in order to get the job done. Then when you get to the second portion of the project – landscape mode, you can determine what additional tools you require at that particular time.
Once the discards are out of the way go ahead and start weeding the ground. Taking scraggly weeds out of your yard will make your yard look so much better. Plus, the bonus is that your yard is appreciably nicer to view once the weeds are out of the way. This aspect will allow you to stay motivated and move forward with the remainder of the cleanup detail as well as the landscaping that succeeds it.
The landscaping portion involves your looking into what flowers and shrubs you’d like to plant in order to provide it with a pleasing appearance. Another consideration if you are in the right environment and the block of land can accommodate it, you may consider setting up a vegetable garden. This aspect may be reasonable especially if you like to cook and like the idea of growing your own vegetables.
In matter of progression, creating a yard makeover involves removing weeds, long grasses, and old gates or other such unsightly items first. Secondly, you plan your garden and purchase plants, trees and shrubs accordant to your agricultural zone and what will work well on your parcel of ground.
The approach sounds simplistic when just stating it; however, knowledgeable landscapers and gardeners know such a two-to-three-part project is a great deal more involved. However, when all is said and done redoing your yard is certainly well worth the effort.
A Sensational Transformation
Perusing gardening magazines may make you wish your backyard resembled one of the beautiful pictures you admire. You need not feel envy as you can affect the same type of transformation yourself.
There are a variety of approaches wherein you can take your backyard from a less than appealing parcel to something out of the ordinary.
The initial approach is to size up your backyard. Consider areas where clutter prevails. If there are areas with items, you no longer need or anticipate using then get them hauled away. You will need to clear your garden of clutter before you can proceed. Once the clutter is no longer an issue it is time for the fun part, making over your backyard.
Certainly, if you have been perusing the garden magazines for months on end you will have formulated some ideas. If not, now may be the time to do so. You might also glean some ideas by thinking about how other yards are presented within surrounding neighborhoods as well as your own.
Take your ideas and regardless of where you have attained them ensure you have put together a plan where your personality is part of the new landscape. For example, if you are the sort of person who enjoys entertaining, you’ll want to designate an area where your friends can appreciate your thriving oasis — possibly a patio or an area where you can cook out or grill.
Make a list of things you would like to see changed and then start on your project. If you have plenty of capital, you will want to hire a professional landscaper to provide you with his or her unique brand and expertise to the project. If that is not within your budget or preference you can still proceed on your own with the landscaping project. However, conducting some product research online will be necessary.
You will want to take care of the landscaping of the yard by initially planting interesting trees and shrubbery. Also, if you are the sort of person who appreciates a garden, you will want to plant flowering items that are currently in-season – and make provisions to change out flowers for others that are in bloom for different seasons of the year.
In order to create a marvelous makeover, you will wish to consider decorative items that will make your garden and yard all the more pleasant to view. Such garden accessories – if well selected – are what will make your backyard special and inviting to guests. Items may include benches, tables and chairs for out-of-doors socializing and decorative pots or statues — however kept in balance and to a minimum.
Backyard renovations if thought through can be enormously rewarding. The key is to put your own unique lifestyle as well as personality into the equation. By so doing you are sure to come up with something sensational!
A Solution for Unsightly Weeds
In order to transform your backyard into a venue of wonderment one thing is for certain; you will want to keep the weeds out. Since you can’t post a no-trespassing sign for this form of unsightly plant-life a more realistic solution may present in the form of landscape fabric. What exactly is landscape fabric?
It is a material especially used in gardens to keep down excessive weed growth, rather in the same way compost does, only it does not rot down like compost. Landscape fabric is a viable solution in keeping the weeds out as you simply place it around all sorts of preferable plant life such as flowers, shrubbery and shade trees. This may easily spare you the drudgery of digging up the weeds with a trowel. The material is actually used to promote the positive plant growth and discourage or put an end to the weeds.
The way the latter is accomplished is that the material effectively blocks out natural light so that weeds do not have a chance to emerge. The plants you wish to keep around are not blocked since the same material that blocks sunlight from getting to unsightly weeds allows plenty of air and humidity and other forms of moisture to reach the roots of garden plants. This is based on the theory that the plants where growth is encouraged have already emerged and the weeds attempting to make an eventual appearance above ground are still underneath the soil.
Before buying landscape fabric you will need to consider a few points. First off, you need to choose a landscape fabric with plenty of durability that holds up well and is well-suited for its intended application. However, fabric that is a great deal more durable is more expensive and there is a reduction in the amount of moisture and air that can reach your plants.
The fabric used needs to be absorbent enough to provide proper moisture and air to flow into the soil. The fabric must be appropriate to its application because if it is not, you will have a problem on your hands with the soil becoming infertile or your plants not growing properly. In this regard, the fibers of the fabric should be evenly distributed. Also, the areas where there are openings should be small enough that weeds cannot grow through. You can buy landscape fabrics at most garden centers as well as community nurseries.
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