Residential Landscape Design

Residential Landscape Design – The DIY Four Seasons Landscape

One of the easiest residential landscape design themes to implement on your landscape is the 4 seasons motif. This is so because the attractiveness of the design will depend on your choice of textures and colors, rather than on man-made structures. It is perfectly possible to design an impressive 4 seasons residential landscape design without pebble or brick paths, fountains or grottoes. Furthermore, not only do you have a rich and colorful selection of flowers, shrubs, ornamental grasses and dwarf trees to choose from for each season, but you can be sure that all year round, your garden will be blooming as nature herself would have intended.

A 4 seasons residential landscape design cannot of course be planted just once. If you yourself do not intend to attend to it, you will have to hire the services of a professional gardener during the early, middle and late part of spring as well as for summer, autumn and winter. On the other hand, one of the great benefits of DIY-ing this residential landscape design is that you will have learned enough gardening techniques by the end of spring (or whatever season you start) for you to tend and maintain your garden for the rest of the year, even during winter. There are many flowers and shrubs that thrive in the cold of December and they should liven up the atmosphere in your garden at or for Christmas.

As a backdrop for your seasonal plants, you should include annuals, biennials and perennials. These are plants that can live for one, two or more than two years. In fact, the best way to start planning out a 4 seasons residential landscape design is to think about the perennials first. Perennial shrubs, flowers, grasses and trees will be more or less the permanent features of your residential landscape design. If you want to know more about seasonal and perennial flowers and plants you can get all the information you need from websites that not only list these plants but also provide pictures of them.

The general technique for creating a 4 seasons residential landscape design in your garden is referred to as “staggered” planting. This refers to the fact that you need to plant seasonals just before the season in which they thrive, starts. In residential landscape design, before planting the seasonals you will need to remove and kill the roots of the previous batch of plants to clear the space. It is impossible to remove all those roots though and sometimes, flowers from the previous batch may sprout alongside the new plants. If the combination is not pleasing to the eye, you will just need to uproot them as they grow. Otherwise, you need not worry because eventually, the flowers from the previous season will just stop sprouting.

Usually, the borders of the residential landscape design are planted with perennial shrubs and trees. The trees will of course have to be planted years before you start your residential landscape design. Alternatively you could get dwarf or miniature trees. These are smaller and shorter versions of the normal trees. They can grow to a height of 10 feet, their tops being well within the reach of human beings. They are therefore easier to prune and care for.

There is really nothing difficult about creating a 4 seasons landscape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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