How to Landscape Your Home?

It is a known fact that the environment can influence our mood, so it is important to have a pleasant home and a complementing garden to lighten up and refresh our mood in this busy life.

Landscaping is improving or recreating a landscape, practically or aesthetically using live elements like flora and fauna or changing the natural elements like the terrain shapes, elevations and landforms.

Landscaping also involves structures, buildings, fences, artificial fountains etc.

Benefits of Landscaping Landscaping makes your home attractive and increases the sale

value. It filters pollution and purifies air which leads to a healthier life

lifestyle. Keeps you active and reduces stress level. It creates a cooler environment by reducing the heat in summer. Avoids soil erosion and conserves the ground water level. It enhances biodiversity in the urban cities.

Steps Involved in Landscaping Landscaping is a combination of art and science which required interest and

skills. Below are the steps involved:Plan your Landscape

Planning is an essential part in landscaping which will help you analyze all your options for the landscaping project.

You can buy books or surf the internet to know about the work effort and cost.

According to your budget and convenience, plan your project. Understand the nature of the land and create the garden based on the

available material and space. Create a Checklist

Once the plan is ready, you will know the equipment required to initiate the work.

Collect the already existing supplies at home or check out for freely available materials that you can find in an old construction sites or from your friends.

Your checklist should include all the gardening hardware materials, plant saplings, water resources like the water pipe and water routes, manure, compost pile etc.

Choose Native Gardening The crucial step in landscaping is choosing the right plants. Native gardening is the current trend in the landscaping field,

which uses native plants that can adapt to the climate and environment.

Instead of going for a turf grass lawn, try native plants which requires only one tenth of work effort and cost.

The native gardening gives you the scope of using more creative ideas.

Shop at Right Time On a budget landscaping project, you can save more bucks by

buying the seedlings at the right time. The price range of plants fluctuates based on seasons. Wait till the end of the season to buy healthy plants for discount

price. If you want to start immediately, try small saplings which will cost

less.

Buy Plants in Bulk Do not think of buying 2 or 3, but think of buying plants in large

groups. This way, you can spend less while buying in bulk. Try getting the plants from your friends, since the plants grown on

a home environment is better than the ones available with chemical manures.

Divide in to Small Zones It is advisable to divide the land into small chunks and then work,

one after the other. You can separate the areas based on the landscape plan. Give primary preference to the weaker spot and then work on the

rest of the land. Partitioning the land will also help you with better budgeting.

Keep it Simple Keep the whole project simple so it is easy to maintain every day. You can add fence around the garden or on the sides, if required. If you have time to spare in cleaning and maintaining, then you can

add up more decorative elements to the lawn.

Maintain your Masterpiece The last step in landscaping is to maintain the

masterpiece that you have created. Cleaning, adding manures, watering, clearing the

pathway are the maintenance tasks that need to be done regularly.

Landscaping Trend in India Landscaping in India is taking a new shape with more

online shops opening every day. People are shifting their focus to online nurseries. The real estate builders in India are concentrating on

landscaping as a value-add to promote their properties. Leading builders like DLF focuses on creating stunning landscapes that will transform the area and increases the property demand.

There is a lot of landscaping architectural firms in India which will plan and create unique landscape projects.

You can avail their help to create your dream garden.