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The outside of your home is just as important as the inside. Landscaping greatly contributes to the perceived value and curb appeal of your home. Installing and maintaining attractive landscaping now can put you a step ahead when you decide to sell your house. Traditionally, front yard landscaping consists of flower or shrub beds linking the walkway from the driveway to the front door. Mulching and drip irrigation systems can keep these beds properly watered. Landscaping rocks, ornamental trees, and fountains can add further personal touches to your front yard. In arid climates hardscaping, or the minimal usage of plants, is becoming more and more popular. Backyard landscaping can be far more extensive, especially if you have a pool or outdoor entertainment area. Koi ponds, topiaries, and organic gardens are all gaining in popularity. Use retaining walls in your front, back, or side yard to level out slopes if needed. Add lighting as a final touch. Solar and other decorative lighting not only provides beauty to your landscaping, but safety for your entire family.

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"Landscapers and the Green Movement" Landscape contractors are going green! Whoa there Captain Obvious, that is what landscape contractors do. They plant green stuff like grass (green side up), trees, shrubs and flowers. All of which are designed to provide aesthetic value, cleanse the CO2 from the air and replenish nutrients in the soil. How much greener can you get than a landscape contractor.

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Landscaping Contractors Bring Your Home Alive

Article By Sheryl Robinson

When someone visits your home, the first impression they get is from the outside of your house. The landscaping of your home is the first and last thing that visitors will see. The best way to make your guests feel welcome is to provide an inviting experience from the moment they step out of the car. A Landscape Contractor will bring life back to your home and provide a beautiful extension of your house through natural and environment friendly techniques.

Make Lawn Maintenance Care Free
Just the words ‘lawn maintenance' scare people and really have nothing enticing about them. People today are pressed for time and taking on any extra responsibilities just isn't top on the lists. To reduce your worries and free up your time, call a Landscape Contractor. You will be amazed at the results, thankful for your extra time, and able to actually relax and enjoy your beautiful yard.

Be A Native
A Landscape Contractor can suggest plants that are native to your region. When you use native plants you don't have to worry about them adapting to the climate and your chances of reproduction of these plants have greatly increased. Your Landscape Contractor can help you design your wonderland by proper placement of plants based on drainage, soil, and amount of sunlight. This is their life, so always consult the landscaper for tips and ideas to place interest and details in certain areas and focal points.

Simple Care
Caring for your plants is normally pretty straightforward, however, if there are any specialized plants consult your Landscape Contractor for care instructions. When consulting with your landscaper, be sure to discuss care before all landscaping is started. This will reduce your stress later if you know there are some things that need caring for more often that others. Your landscaper can also advise you on the installation of eco-friendly, water saving automatic sprinkler system.<.p>

Don't Pester Me
With any garden and lawn care, you will have the unfortunate experience of choosing a pesticide. There are environmentally safe alternatives that will deliver the same results to unwanted pests, yet is safer and non-toxic to the environment. Your Landscape Contractor can give you the specific natural pesticides for all your plant, garden, and lawn needs. The landscapers may have tips for natural ingredients you have that will also aid in elimination of unwanted pests. If you are unsure what to use and on what to use it, always contact your Landscape Contractor.

It's Good For You
Making your landscape beautiful also improves the environment. You rebuild the natural botanicals giving more oxygen into the air. Grass and plants also aid in soil erosion while trees help purify the air. What you thought was just a simple call to your Landscape Contractor, has turned into an environmentally safe, health promoting, beautiful extension of your home which saves you time and money.

Total Home Landscaping

Text by Jennifer Weldon

The landscaping around your home provides friends and neighbors with their first impression about you and your home. A great first impression includes a well manicured lawn and beds, a maintained backyard, and attention to details. Total home landscaping can include flower beds, ornamental trees, sculpture rocks, shrubs and more. Edging and borders, including retaining walls made of wood, brick, or stone can enhance the front landscaping while also providing support on a sloped area for a level lawn area above.

Beautiful curb appeal will contribute to that important first impression. Curb appeal is enhanced by front yard landscaping that draws people's attention. This can be done by shrub or flower lined walkways and eye pleasing beds. Of course, grass or sod is part of your front lawn as well but does require frequent watering. For water conservation, one should consider drip root irrigation systems that bring water directly to the roots with little waste. This system can be installed throughout the front landscaping, including any plant beds or garden landscaping.

Curb appeal should extend to your backyard as well to create a total home landscaping effect. If you have a swimming pool this can be a focal point of your backyard landscape. You can create privacy around the pool by utilizing evergreens and other coniferous shrubs and trees. These plants will not lose their leaves and thus will keep your pool clean.

Back and side yards typically have a lot of lawn area, which raises the issue of conserving water again. Water cistern systems are being utilized to keep grass green and cut back on water usage. Water cisterns collect rainwater and add it to excess water drainage from your household such as sinks, showers and dishwashers. This excess drainage is also known as gray water. The rainwater and gray water are then combined and used for your irrigation system.

A new trend in total home landscaping includes vegetable gardens. In today's economy more families are looking to cut costs by growing their own vegetables. There is also the issue of harmful pesticides and chemicals in store bought produce. Natural composting systems and organic seeds can become part of your vegetable garden to grow healthy, natural vegetables your entire family can enjoy. If you have limited space, consider using large planter pots on your deck or patio for growing vegetables.

If you live in an arid climate with little rainfall, or are under tight water restrictions, creating a stone landscape, or hardscape, is a creative solution. You can intersperse native plants and flowers that gain enough water from the outlay of water from the rocks. The drier terrain will also eliminate most insects and other pests. By creating a hardscape, or stone landscape, your total home landscape will not need chemical pesticides and fertilizers.

Another component you can add to your total home landscaping is a garden pool. Garden pools have become more common recently and can consist of fountains, koi ponds, or aquatic plant ponds. Ambient underwater lighting can be installed in the garden pond which will elicit a soothing nighttime tranquility. If you opt to create a kio pond or other ecosystem within your pond don't be surprised if frogs, lizards, and birds frequent your garden pool and create their own environment. These welcome creatures will help keep your backyard bug free and make your enjoyment of your landscape more complete.