5 Responses to “what are some good landscaping techniques?”

1. jimmy Says:
   
   August 13, 2009 at 11:15 am

   Hire a Mexican or two

2. Bearwithme Says:
   
   August 16, 2009 at 4:59 pm

   Depending upon where you live, a cacti and rock garden works well for me as it requires little or no maintenance. No lawn mowers, leaf blowers or other such grass cutting tools. And of course, very little water is used.

3. ANGEL Says:
   
   August 17, 2009 at 1:23 am

   You can plant some evergreen trees and colorful shrubs for all-season interest. Yews have evergreen needles and bright red berries, (but their berries, seeds & needles are toxic). Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea ‘Allemans’) has an attractive reddish bark, Cranberrybush Viburnum, Winterberry & Holly bushes have beautiful berries in winter.
   Barberry bushes with colorful leaves & berries: (Myrica cerifera)
   Birch trees are attractive all year round. Young’s weeping birch (Betula pendula ‘Youngii’) is a 6′-12′ dwarf variety. Yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis) is a golden version of the paper birch.

   Color is one of the basic elements of landscape design. Click on the pictures in this gallery for examples of how to put color theory into practice in your landscaping:

   Dwarf varieties of trees & small shrubs are low maintenance & can be planted in front of taller trees to add to the sense of scale in the landscape. In front of ranch-type houses, you can achieve scale by using low-growing trees &/or evergreens behind even smaller shrubs. Ground-cover plants, bulbs, etc. complete the picture & can also add color.

   Weeping forms of trees provide form, texture & movement. This colorful Japanese Maple looks great all year & is especially nice with spring bulbs planted under it: (you can do the same with a Paperbark Birch):
   You can integrate different plant forms in the same bed in order to achieve contrast or variation. Check out these weeping, upright and spreading forms:
   The photos in this gallery are examples of how plant form and texture are treated in landscape design

   Create focal points to direct the eye to an area & use curved lines in plantings,especially in borders, to create a long sweeping, expansive effect:

   Since symmetry & centering are used to help focus attention on a particular spot, you can place two of the same kinds of shrubs (like evergreens) on either side of a centrally placed colorful shrub. Take a look:

   Ornamental grasses add structure, texture & movement in a landscape …and can also be a focal point… even in the winter season.

   Liriope, or “lilyturf” (Liriope spicata), is a shorter, spreading plant with an upright flower form, ranging in color from white to lavender. In autumn it bears a dark berry. The variegated variety adds even more interest throughout the season.

   You can use native plants & a variety of perennials, like ‘Knock Out’ Roses, & everblooming Daylilies, to add color throughout the season. If you plant spring-flowering bulbs, Pansies or Viola under shrubs like Forsythia & throughout your garden….your garden will explode with color in the spring:
   A summer to September garden gallery slideshow:
   Winter garden plants:

   This curb appeal video puts landscaping ideas of using color, curves (for a natural flow), scale, balance, etc. together:

   Good luck!!! Hope this is helpful.

4. pondlady Says:
   
   August 20, 2009 at 8:42 am

   Tall stuff in the back.
   Green side up.

5. grannygrunt28391 Says:
   
   August 20, 2009 at 6:34 pm

   It will depend on what You yourself like and how much maintenance your willing to spend caring for it.
   Most landscapers put the yard together as separate areas /rooms of different plants, blooming times and colors all drawn together by a common goal, what the homeowner likes as far as planting material and colors and will it be ascetically attractive with the home itself.
   Always set plants in uneven numbers groups. Make sure to set the pots out first for proper placement before you start digging if it’s wrong placement no harm start over. If planting for example daylillies use 3, 5,7 plants etc in the same color group. Use another color group somewhere else. Planting in color groups makes for a big show. Also plant various ones for different blooming times. Plus don’t forget the repeat bloomers that will bloom during the course of the season. They are very low maintenance.
   I have a favorite shrub “Dappled Willow ‘Hakuro Nishiki’”
   that give beautiful colors in the spring and changes during the summer months.
   Another good low maintenance plant is the hosta theycome in a pleothra of colors and have spike flowers usually white or lavendar.
   See types below…these are a little pricey and can be purchased cheaper and they can be divided as the daylilly for extra plantings.+-+Fall&utm_term=hostas&utm_extra=dim1/Hostas//dim2/Broad//phone/1-866-259-8404
   See photo below/they have no flowers just colored dappled leaves
   with springtime catkins
   The choices are endless and so are the different blooming times, it’s just what is the “beauty in your eye”