| When you are landscaping your yard you need to | | | | months and forget about the winter months |
| plan ahead and think about things like color, | | | | entirely. This is a phenomenon that boggles my |
| texture, spacing, and seasons. The one mistake | | | | mind because you have to look at your yard 365 |
| that people usually make when they first start | | | | days per year. There is not going to be a month |
| decorating their yards with plants is that they | | | | that goes by that you will not have to see your |
| always go with ones that will give them instant | | | | landscaping, so why not just make it so that you |
| satisfaction. What this usually means is that the | | | | will want to see it every day? |
| landscape design is going to be great during the | | | | All it takes is a bit more planning and a bit more |
| nice months of summer, but pretty drab | | | | research about the types of plants that you |
| throughout the rest of the year. | | | | should be putting into the ground. The best way |
| Here is the normal pattern that most people do. | | | | to plant your yard is in layers: Larger plants in the |
| Spring or summertime rolls around and people | | | | background and shorter plants in the foreground. |
| start to think that they should add some spice to | | | | You should incorporate both annuals and perennials |
| their yard (when the weather is nice people start | | | | into your design as well as evergreen bushes. As |
| to get the itch to do some gardening), so they go | | | | an example there are many types of bushes that |
| out to their local plant nursery and start browsing | | | | are a nice green color in the spring, put out |
| around. They see all sorts of bright and colorful | | | | beautiful flowers in the summer, and turn a vivid |
| plants that they believe will look great in their | | | | red color throughout the fall and winter months. |
| yard, so they purchase these plants and then go | | | | By choosing a variety of plants that will be visually |
| home to get them into the ground. The yard | | | | stimulating throughout the entirety of the year |
| looks great. The house looks really livened up. | | | | you will create a landscape design that will never |
| Everything is wonderful... | | | | let you down and you will be particularly happy |
| Except there is one little problem. | | | | during the icy winter months when you see |
| Everything will start to look a whole lot less | | | | colorful plants dispersed throughout your yard |
| wonderful a few months when the seasons | | | | making a lovely contrast to the snowfall. |
| change because people always plant for nice | | | | |