Hello World! Welcome Friends! If you are a new homeowner or have planted family roots in the same home for decades, it’s not too soon to start thinking about refreshing your backyard landscape design. You’ll want to upgrade the backyard, because you are probably spending more time at home, are using hybrid working schedules, are into taking more time for some much-needed self-care, and are ready to check out the overall trend of homeowners excited about planning to consciously beautify their outdoor world.
Here are 5 ways you can work to easily revamp your backyard landscape design.
Before You Start: Decide on the Landscape Style You Want to Embrace
Okay, you have decided to make some major changes to your backyard, but where do you start? You’ll have to do some research first off, to determine the style you want to use to change your new backyard landscape design. You can choose from any number of options, but here are 5 popular ways to create the perfect backyard.
1. Geometrical and Planned Design
A geometrical use of symmetrical design that is planned to place plantings in designated and marked sections throughout the backyard.
Geometric patterns are often found in nature, but you can create beautiful artificial geometry in the backyard right now. By using all the natural plants and flora available to you in your environmental zone, you can fashion circles, semi-circles, squares, cones, rectangles, and more to showcase the new plants in your backyard. You’ll want to map out plots using closed and formal geometric patterns to highlight landscaping ideas in that outdoor area, for a formal unified theme to your new backyard design.
2. Geometrical and Natural Design
A geometrical design that follows the natural form of the backyard plot, with few hard lines for plantings.
The structure of the landscaping will rule the day, but the natural elements will determine the lines of the landscape in the backyard area. Trees and plants will be in definite planes, but there will be some leeway as to how the sections flow into each other in the backyard arena.
3. Structural and Natural Design
A structural design that includes geometric patterns filled in with plants, trees, shrubbery and flowers.
Natural structural designs utilize the landscape as the star player, with less emphasis on keeping to strict structural outlines and sectioned areas for plant placements. Here you can allow a plant to be overgrown if it is thriving, and not prune it back to keep original shapes.
4. Natural with No Design Planned
A natural design where plant colors can overlap, be grouped together, or just flow freely into each other with no firm demarcation between plot sections.
If you choose a natural backyard scheme with no formal design, you will allow plants to just “be,” and highlight the colors, textures and overall beauty of your backyard based on chosen plants and flowers for their beauty alone.
5. Minimalist Design to Naturally Start Over
A plan to take out most of the landscaping currently in the backyard like Shrubhub, and to live with it minimally bare for a some amount of time, to see what will speak to you as a compatible design later on.
The minimalist design will take out most of the plants you have currently in the area. This will be a work in progress, and will consider that later on you’ll complete a full overhaul of the outdoor backyard scene more to your changing tastes and styles.
Planning Makes It Perfect!
Remember, if you don’t first make a careful plan as to what you want, your backyard will lose its momentum as a unified outdoor living area. These ideas are free for the taking, and when you’re ready to take the next step, look for the best company out there to bring your vision to life.
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Toodles,
Great ideas! I have no landscaping talent. We did pull everything out though to start all over. The flowers I planted died so now I am looking at the empty spaces. I think you inspired me to just leave the emptiness until I figure out what I really want this space to look like!
Having a plan is so important in landscaping. But, it’s also helpful to allow the natural lay of the land along with the native plants guide you as your landscaping plan evolves. Thank you for sharing this post in the Talent-Sharing Tuesdays Link-Up 53.
Carol
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I always love reading your posts because they contain informative and useful information. You are so right – the key to a successful backyard landscape is having a plan. Thank you for sharing this post on the Home Imagined Link Party.
Hi there, Your article on revamping backyard landscape design was a great read. Loved your tips on adding vibrant colors and creating functional zones. Can’t wait to transform my backyard using your fantastic ideas. Thanks for the inspiration! Keep up the awesome work!