Friday, February 28, 2014

Small Yard Landscaping Techniques

By Agripina Nuss


This combination of small front yard landscaping ideas and small backyard landscaping ideas can maximize the impact in even the smallest of yards.

The first of the small front yard landscaping ideas is the effective use of colour. By placing bold and bright colours in the front of your house, your home will become an attention catcher. As you view these colours, the landscape beyond will appear to recede and give an illusion of bigness to your front yard.

As to of vine planting, one of the showiest rambling vines in the market is the clematis variety. They can grow on fences, on trellises or in containers. An alternative to this is to just leave them to scramble over shrubs and perennials. Your pick.

There is only one word to describe the first of our small backyard landscaping ideas and that is cosiness. The cosiness of a small backyard can be achieved with lush shrubs to screen out the view beyond. Your small scaled yard will get transformed into a cosy, little, private retreat for any member of your family.

Dressing up an unattractive driveway is a matter of a careful landscaping sculpture using the right materials interspersed with complementing plants. In the centre of the drive, sculpturing can start with the creation of a slightly raised island of lawn.

When thinking of small front yard landscaping ideas, let your imagination do the running. For example, a series of garden rooms can create a sense of mystery and intrigue for your front yard. Other than helping out to make a small front yard look bigger, by making each room distinct from one another, you can create views that offer only a hint of what the rest of the yard holds.

Toward the back of the island, the addition of a low boxwood hedge with roses, annuals and perennials rising above the hedge of the front is the way to go. For a more eye-catching look, you can intermingle a variety of colours, textures and heights.




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