If you intend on doing your property’s landscaping yourself, instead of calling experts, then there are many things you need to learn – and fast. Landscapers are so good at their jobs because they have spent several years understanding the industry, plants, what works, and what doesn’t. If you picked up your knowledge from a home and garden magazine, you don’t tend to have the same experience. As a result, it’s common to make some mistakes.
Mistakes by landscapers are easy enough to fix, but they are even easier to not make in the first place. If you are about to get the landscaping process underway, make sure you don’t do the following.
- Fail to Plan
You will be aware of the adage: fail to plan, and you plan to fail. The same rule applies to landscaping. If you do everything on a whim or wing the entire process, you may end up with a whole host of problems that can take months or years to correct.
Before you put your garden gloves on and get to work, make sure you’ve considered:
- Your available space
- The climate
- Wildlife and insect threats
- Terrain
- Watering requirements
- The function of the area
- Colours
Failure to consider these points may result in you needing to throw in extra funding to take care of associated problems.
- Incorrectly-Placed Plants
A common problem people make is putting plants in the spot that looks the best but isn’t the best. Plants all have different needs. Some like sun and dry soil, while others like moisture and shade. Are you doing what’s best for your plants? You have to strike a healthy balance between function and design.
- Cutting Your Grass Too Low
If you’re trying to get your lawns to look like a bowling green, then cutting them to the shortest length is not the answer. When you cut your lawns too low, you are impacting the growth and your lawn’s ability to carry out photosynthesis. Short grass usually has unhealthy roots which can stop it from absorbing nutrients.
- Choosing the Wrong Plants
Believe it or not, you have to put a lot of plant into selecting plants for landscaping. What you see in a garden store is not necessarily what you’ll get once you plant it at home. Trees are an excellent example of this. They might look small as saplings, but those saplings can grow to monstrous sizes in your yard, with their roots impacting your surrounding landscaping.
- Not Performing Maintenance
It doesn’t take long for plants to grow out of control, pathways to grow moss, and for wildlife to take over. It’s crucial to stay on top of maintenance if you want your yard to look like the picture of perfection forever.
If you want to avoid all of these landscaping mistakes, then could it be time to call in the experts? Landscaping businesses can have your yard looking every bit as perfect as you had hoped.
