It’s spring! You’ve been thinking about the features you want to add to your landscape for ages and a call to a landscaper to schedule a site visit can get your project rolling. Here’s how a landscaper can kickstart a landscape transformation for the spring in Bedford and Peterborough, NH.
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Form is Function
The design process always begins by thinking about how you would like to spend your time in the landscape: both in your front yard, your side yards, and your backyard. Once you’re clear on the intended uses, prioritize the amenities you need to fulfill your vision. Active lifestyles filled with exercise and outdoor games and sports might prioritize a pool, a spacious lawn, or maybe a personal hiking trail. A lifestyle that revolves around entertaining might prioritize open patio areas and an outdoor kitchen and bar. A lifestyle that prioritizes relaxation might have areas built for seclusion with soothing water features, monochromatic plantings, and privacy fencing. Many landscape features can adapt to more than one of these lifestyles.
Your landscaper will help you define your needs and clarify the function of your landscape, as the foundation of your design.
Make the Most of Your Space
For many homeowners, lawns serve little function other than aesthetics - and there is a growing trend toward reducing the size of the lawn in favor of a landscape that benefits a relaxed lifestyle. Reducing the lawn often means incorporating low-maintenance native plants and expanding the size of your outdoor living spaces with the intention of spending more quality time with family and friends, while still enjoying a beautiful landscape.
While exotic plants can be gorgeous and fun additions to your landscape, they are inefficient users of water, labor, and resources. It’s much better to opt for native plants that are perfectly suited for your environment. Native plants don’t require constant maintenance and watering and they are beautiful! Flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees that are native to New Hampshire can all be wonderful additions to your property.
Your landscaper can help recommend hardy and beautiful native plants and offer design suggestions for outdoor living spaces that are as much “in” the landscape as “next to” the landscape depending on your preferences.
Eco-Friendly Standards
Updating to eco-friendly standards has a substantial positive impact on the environment. Using native plants and grasses is one strategy to reduce water usage. A new professional irrigation system will also help by making supplemental watering much more efficient. Updating your lighting systems to use LEDs (light-emitting diodes) will reduce electricity usage as well as adding options for creative expression.
Your landscaper can design and install an irrigation system that reduces your landscaping chores while maintaining a healthy lifestyle; and, designing and installing a lighting scheme that uses a zoned approach creates exactly the right amount of light and ambiance in each part of the landscape.
Shelter
When the sun bears down and the rain starts to fall, you don’t want to have to seek shelter indoors. Building a permanent shelter - a pavilion or pergola - lets you keep the fun outside.
Both structures can become not only useful additions to the landscape, but focal points that can contain wonderful amenities like creature comforts of the indoors: lights, fans, and an outdoor kitchen.
Your landscaper can design and install a shelter structure that is perfectly integrated into your outdoor living space.
Your landscaper will help you clarify your needs and come up with a plan that brings your vision to life. It all starts with a phone call!
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