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7 Landscaping Tips to Keep Your Yard Looking Great

  • Perla Irish
  • July 20, 2021
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  1. 1. Keep Your Grass Healthy
  2. 2. Buy Perennial and Annual Flowers
  3. 3. Clean Up Leaves
  4. 4. Add Water Features
  5. 5. Fertilize
  6. 6. Incorporate Texture
  7. 7. Dethatch Your Yard
  8. Discover More Landscaping Tips to Improve Your Curb Appeal

According to some research, a well-landscaped lawn can add about 1 to 5% to your home value.

If you’re interested in doing simple things to improve curb appeal, there are a few easy landscaping tips that you can try.

Thankfully, we have the perfect guide to give you some landscaping ideas, so make sure you keep reading!

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7 Landscaping Tips to Keep Your Yard Looking Great

1. Keep Your Grass Healthy

Most people don’t focus on keeping their grass healthy, but it’s one of the most important parts of your landscape!

Keeping your grass healthy takes more work than just watering it with the sprinklers. Instead, you should make sure that you aerate it.

This will help the oxygen in your lawn flow better. To make sure that you’re doing it correctly, you should also check to make sure the pH of the soil is balanced. This is one sign of healthy grass.

In addition to that, make sure that you fertilize it. This will give your lawn all the nutrients that it needs in order to survive the glaring sun in the middle of summer.

While you may not want to mow your grass in the middle of summer, you should still do that as well. Don’t cut your grass too short though because this will hurt the health of the grass.

You should also get rid of any weeds that you see cropping up. These weeds can grow out of control, but they also steal all the nutrients from the grass, which can kill it.

2. Buy Perennial and Annual Flowers

If you don’t want to replant flowers every season, make sure you plant perennial and annual flowers in your flowerbeds.

Perennials typically only bloom for a few months and then they don’t produce anything for a while.

If you have annuals and perennials mixed in, this will fill in the gaps for when the perennials aren’t blooming.

This way, you can choose different color schemes to make sure your landscape is always colorful!


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3. Clean Up Leaves

Most people think that they only need to rake leaves in the fall, but this isn’t necessarily true.

Even in the summer, many trees, especially oak trees, will shed their leaves. You don’t have to be picking up every single leaf that falls on your lawn, but you should get rid of larger piles.

Plus, when you leave layers of leaves in your yard, this is a great environment for mold and decay to start growing in.

Also, if you don’t get rid of them, you’ll just end up mowing over them, which could end up hurting your lawnmower.

4. Add Water Features

If you want some great front yard ideas, you can also add some kind of a water feature, like a fountain.

This will act as a focal point anchor when people look at your landscape. In addition to being visually pleasing, you’ll also have calming sounds coming from the running water.

Some water features, like a pond or a waterfall, are even easy to install on your own with just a few materials. However, you can find many cheap fountains at home department stores as well!

5. Fertilize

The best time of the month to fertilize your lawn is in the fall. This will give your grass the food that it needs to fortify the root systems for the cold winter ahead.

You should also fertilize in spring, but do it later in the season. If you, do it too early, the plant will put all that extra energy into developing the blade rather than the roots.

You’ll know when it’s time to start fertilizing when your grass is starting to green again. You should also do it right before the summer gets too hot.

You should also use about a pound of fertilizer, depending on how big your hard is.

6. Incorporate Texture

Make sure you incorporate different kinds of plants and foliage as well. You need some diversity and different textures in your plants.

For example, if you have evergreen confiders with flowers, you’ll add some depth into your yard. You can also add some bark chips or stones to your flower bed.

7. Dethatch Your Yard

Thatch is just dead plant material. It will build up in between the grass’s roots and blades. Having a little bit of this is okay and actually healthy.

But if you start to have too much, then you have a problem. For example, you don’t want to get thatch that is almost an inch thick.

To get rid of it, you can buy a thatch or a power rake. Then start raking through your yard removing a little bit of that layer.

When you remove it, you’ll allow more water and air to get in the soil, leaving you with healthier grass.

If you want to incorporate some of these tips into your landscape but aren’t sure how you might want to hire a contractor! For more information, you can check out this article: Backyard Beautiful: How to Find the Best Landscape Contractor.

Discover More Landscaping Tips to Improve Your Curb Appeal

These are only a few of the best landscaping tips to help you improve your home’s value and curb appeal, but there are many more tips to try!

We know that keeping your house in the best shape can be exhausting sometimes, but we’re here to help you out.

If you enjoyed this article, make sure that you explore our website to find more articles just like this one.

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Perla Irish

Perla Irish, who is more familiarly known as Irish, is the Content Manager at Dreamlandsdesign.com. She loves following trends around home and garden, interior design, and digital marketing. Through this blog, Irish wants to share information and help readers solve the problems they are experiencing.

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