If your front and backyard need an urgent facelift, you’ve come to the right place. Fortunately, to make your front yard more beautiful, you don’t need to take out a loan or pay throught the teeth for professional landscapers.
If you have basic do-it-yourself skills, you can transform your yard in one weekend. Here are some interesting ideas to get you started.
1. Create a New Walkway
Chart a new course in your garden by creating a new DIY walkway. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on materials. Look out for free materials in your yard or around your neighborhood.
What you need to do is dig a trench (a shallow one will do) in the ground. Then push in pallet wood planks, smooth rocks, or bricks. Arrange them to form a curved path. If any of the wood boards rot or any of the other material pieces break, just take it out and put another one in its place.
2. Place Mulch Around Trees
Adding mulch at the base of young trees is a good idea with lots of benefits. Mulch enriches the soil and it can also:
* retain moisture
* regulate temperature
* halt weed growth
* stop tree roots from poking through the surface.
It’s possible to get free mulch if you look around you. Some communities offer homeowners free mulch.
You can also create mulch from grass clippings, compost, wood chips, and pine needles. That way you can complete your mulching project without emptying your wallet.
3. Add Some Artificial Grass
Artificial grass (also called a fake lawn) can beautify your yard and offer some unique benefits over natural grass. Some of these advantages include:
* minimal maintenance
* instant availability
* easy cleaning
* toughness and durability
As long as you don’t mind the cost and you can keep it from being damaged by fire, pets, or kids, your artificial turf will be return dividends in low-maintenance and overall appearance.
4. Plant Cost-saving Perennials
Plant more perennials in place of annuals. Perennials will turn up with bright colors each growing season. With these, you can reduce the cost and time for gardening. You won’t need to buy, plant, and tend to new annuals the following year.
Some of the perennials you should consider include day lily, lavender, hydrangea, coneflower, aster, tulip, and hosta. Although perennials cost more initially than annuals, it is a wise investment.
5. Decorate Your Mailbox with Flowers
It will feel great to have the most attractive mailbox in the neighborhood. You can achieve this by planting flowers around the mailbox.
Create a small trellis around it and plant self-climbing flowers like roses or hydrangeas. Ensure that you choose a perennial plant so you don’t have to replant them every year.
6. Raise Your Garden Beds
Do you have a yard that is overrun with weeds or pests? A good solution is to raise your garden beds.
Raising garden beds is a low-cost DIY landscaping project that you can do by screwing together some wooden boards. You can also make it with brick or cinder blocks.
Remember that a raised garden improves drainage, protects soil from compacting, and adds aesthetic value to the garden.
7. Plant Tree Saplings
Planting trees is a smart way to add value to your property. It will only take you one or two afternoons to plant several tree saplings in your yard but they will grow to provide shade and energy cost savings over the years.
If you want to save money, you can wait till the end of the season when there are discounts offered at most nurseries and garden centers.
8. Install New Lighting
Placing string lights outdoors can turn your yard into an amazing place at night. If you have not dined in your yard because of poor lighting, this is an opportunity to do so.
Hang some bright string lights in your backyard and you can have a lovely meal with your family outdoors. You can get these lights on sale at any number of stores close to you.
Bear in mind that good outdoor lights also serve as a deterrent to burglars and thieves that may lurk around your property at night.
9. Improve the Edging
Edging improves the look of your landscape without costing an arm and a leg. It’s a budget-friendly way to improve the curb appeal of your yard (and home, by extension).
You can give the flower beds, shrubs, trees, and other sections of your backyard a facelift by putting some edging around them. Edging will hold the mulch in place and stop erosion.
You can pick from a variety of edging materials like metal, wood, brick, concrete, stone, etc. To save money, you can ignore the store-bought edging and use stones from your lawn or the spare wood you’ve kept in your tool shed.
Now that you have several DIY landscape ideas, we recommend you try them out this weekend. Enjoy the fulfillment as you carefully plan and work them out. They will add greater value and improve the aesthetics of your property.
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