FIVE STEPS TO FOLLOW to ACHIEVE a BEAUTIFUL LOW MAINTENANCE LANDSCAPE DESIGN

The key to easy landscape maintenance is the design. If you plan your landscaping with easy maintenance in mind, you'll be able to put your feet up and enjoy your summer instead of pruning, planting, weeding, mowing, and sweating under the hot sun.

1. Consult a professional landscape designer. Custom Garden Landscaping has professional landscape designers with over 55 years of experience.  We will create a design that is ideal for your individual property. This allows certain types of plants to be used in the appropriate areas where they will receive just the right amount of sunlight and moisture.

2. Use ground cover plants. If you love a lush, green landscape, but you don't like mowing for hours on end, make good use of ground cover plants in your landscape design. In addition to taking the place lawn, ground cover plants are ideal for slopes, where they prevent erosion, and shady areas where grass doesn't grow well anyway. If your landscaping could use a little more color, you can plant ground covers that blossom at various times of the year. This adds another layer to your landscaping and provides seasonal change.

3. Get educated on your plants. Our professional landscape designers know all about which plants thrive best in our climate. We will provide you with instructions on how best to care for your plants.

4. Include hardscape in your landscape design. Hardscaping features and techniques do more than just add texture, character, and usefulness to your landscape; they also reduce your maintenance. When you include hardscaped patios, walkways, walls, and fire pits to your design, you greatly reduce the time you'll have to spend mowing grass or scraping and staining a wood deck. Hardscape features require very little maintenance, and they look great year after year.

5. Prevent and identify problems with your current landscaping. Our professional landscape designers can inspect your plants for disease and pest damage. If there are any problems with your plants, the professional can help you solve the problem before it causes long-term damage or spreads to your other plants. Our professional landscape designers can educate you on how to keep your plants looking great all year round.

By following these five steps, you can have a landscape design that not only looks great, but it also increases the value of your property.