Do You Need Help With Your Landscaping?
Do you live in a home that is on large acreage? If so, doing your own landscaping might be a huge responsibility. Perhaps you love having a gorgeous garden, but you don't love the yard work that accompanies that garden. Or, you might have been an avid gardener in the past, but you are approaching your golden years and your body just isn't up to the hard work you used to do in your home landscaping. No matter the scenario, here are some ideas that might help you when you need help with the landscaping around your property.
Hardscaping - One way you can lighten the load of working in your home garden is to convert part of your yard into a hardscape. Consider removing a large part of your grass and replacing it with something like flagstone or brick, or you could use a combination of both materials. Another idea is to have a cement foundation that can be faux painted to look like Mexican tile or even Italian marble. Add interest to your hardscape by placing pots of different sizes and shapes in strategic parts of the hardscaped area.
Think of including statuary in your hardscape. For example, if there are real deer in your area, consider having life-size deer statues on your hardscape. A large angel or the statue of a famous saint — maybe St. Francis of Assisi — would also be a good choice, especially if you add small pots filled with flowering plants around the statue.
Professional Help - Whether you add a hardscape or whether you keep all of your lawn and other landscaping, there will more than likely still be a lot of work that needs to be done. Consider hiring professionals to handle ground maintenance for you. Besides mowing and trimming grass, the service will also do things like tree trimming, fertilizing at the right times of the year, and even adding new plants to your landscape design when your property needs a bit of an update.
Having professionals do the work on your home property will, of course, be an added expense, but when you enjoy spending time in your beautiful gardens, you might decide that having professionals do the work is some of the best money you will spend on your home. Establish whether you want the service done weekly or monthly and if you even want extra maintenance for special occasions.
