Techniques And Tips For Your Backyard Garden Project

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Techniques and tips for your backyard garden project can be beneficial to you. Your backyard is a place where you can create one large defined bed or numerous different size beds. This is a landscape area where the skies the limit! Here are a few examples of typical questions, and also some simple techniques and tips to address these issues.

Are you thinking about one main large bed around the perimeter of your yard? There are a couple of options for you to ponder.
Consider a fence or a decorative wall bordering your yard. These features will define your bed area and provide privacy. Many companies provide wonderful selections of wood, vinyl, chain link, or iron materials. Stone, rocks, or bricks also create a striking feature for this type of bed. If you already have one of these features, think about putting some large trees along the fence or wall. Evergreen trees such as Arborvitaes, Cypress, Spruce, Cedars, and Hemlocks, provide wonderful privacy and a nice backdrop. Tea Olives or Osmanthus produce white fragrant flowers.







Many Hollies produce berries in the winter time. If you want to scale down and not invest in a fence or decorative wall, plant the trees along the perimeter of your yard. Of course you can incorporate deciduous trees with the evergreens. Either plant them straight in a row or stagger each tree. Depending on the height and width, plant the trees five to ten feet apart.

You can create mass planting of a few varieties of shrubs, or plant several different shrubs with unique textures and brilliant colors. Many people like the idea of low maintenance evergreen shrubs. Your whole bed can consist of evergreens or add a few deciduous bushes, such as a Butterfly, Spireas, Forsythias,or some pretty Weiglas. Most of these deciduous shrubs are good in zones four through nine. Create a few small area of perennial or annual flowers to accent your trees and shrubs. There are hundreds varieties to choose from. Verbena, Phlox, Coreopsis, Daylilies, and Dianthus are some colorful choices. Add a couple of bird feeders or a bird bath. Put a bench, some of your favorite lawn ornaments, or a decorative fountain. (it doesn't have to be a large one)

Do you want a variety of beds throughout your backyard? Create different size beds. A good starting technique and tip is to decide how many beds and how large. This is where the fun begins, because you can create any size. An example is to prep three to five small beds. Spread them out over the entire lawn area. Maybe a big bed in the center of your yard. Plant some trees and shrubs and wait a couple of weeks and see if you want to plant a few more small beds near the larger bed. Plan on an odd number of beds. Take an example of three beds. Put the beds in a triangle format in your landscape area. Put the largest bed in the middle and two smaller beds on either side of the main bed. You can have them in a straight line but get a little creative and put the two smaller beds in an actual triangle shape. The big bed would be the point of the triangle, the smaller beds being the two parallel points.







Plant different shrubs and in the middle of the main bed, put a colorful ornamental tree such as Redbud, Yoshino Cherry, Lilac, or some type of Berry Tree. Connect the beds with a pathway or decorative paver's. Quick tip for doing this type of landscape, make sure you position the beds properly. You don't want the beds to interfere with mowing your yard. Some people have created a series of beds and realized, they positioned them too close to each other. They couldn't fit their lawn mower between each bed. Space each bed anywhere from three to ten feet apart. This will depend on two things, your height and width of your plants, and what type of lawn mower you have, a push or riding mower. When planning a variety of beds through out your backyard, think about how you will view them from your house, patio, or deck. If you need some other techniques on how many beds or what types to plants, contact me and I would be happy to assist you.

Here are different techniques for planting around your deck or patio. Perennial flowers, dwarf shrubs, and a few planters results in your enjoyment and a good investment.

Creating your own Backyard landscape can be a satisfying project. Follow these simple techniques and tips such as positioning of the plants, determining how many beds, what types of trees, shrub or flowers, proper spacing of beds, using a fence, decorative wall or trees for a border or privacy of a bed. One critical tip before starting any landscape project, whether in your front yard or back yard, if you have underground wiring,always know where all your cable, and electric, and telephone wires run. Also, any gas or water line. In most areas, if you do not know where the lines run, the company will come out and mark them usually within 72 hours. Begin your backyard project today. Backyard Garden Design was created to enhance the beauty and add value to a backyard property. I hope these few techniques and tips will help you in your garden backyard project.