Thursday, February 13, 2014

Small Yard Landscaping Suggestions

By Agripina Nuss


This combination of small front yard landscaping ideas and small backyard landscaping ideas can maximize the impact in even the smallest of yards.

The first of the small front yard landscaping ideas is the effective use of colour. By placing bold and bright colours in the front of your house, your home will become an attention catcher. As you view these colours, the landscape beyond will appear to recede and give an illusion of bigness to your front yard.

The power of perspective can make you think that a space is bigger that it actually is. The use of long, straight lines can do this trick quite well. The illusion can be taken to full advantage by subtly slanting the far end of lines toward one another. A low split rail fence with two rows of large shrubs is a fine example of this visual impression.

There is only one word to describe the first of our small backyard landscaping ideas and that is cosiness. The cosiness of a small backyard can be achieved with lush shrubs to screen out the view beyond. Your small scaled yard will get transformed into a cosy, little, private retreat for any member of your family.

The creation of a distraction is another one of those small backyard landscaping ideas that expels extra interest in your backyard. You would hardly notice how small a backyard is by mixing paving materials.

Clematis is best planted during fall or spring, when the weather is cool. To grow them properly, you would need fertile, loose and well drained soil nurtured with organic matter. The more organic matter, the better. Planting them on trees with its leaves under the sun and its roots shaded from the sun is preferable since they prefer cooled roots.

Using a focal point can draw the attention if its beholder, and in doing so, can help small yards to look tidy. A simple stand holding a container garden is one such focal point that you can use in either your front or backyard.




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