| Landscape Design | | | | change with the seasons. You should attempt to |
| Designing your own landscape, can be both exciting | | | | design your landscape as maintenance free as |
| and challenging. If you are considering such a project, | | | | possible. |
| here are some practical ideas and suggestions. | | | | Landscape Design Software |
| | | | If it is hard for you to visualize your finished |
| Planning your landscape design is the first and most | | | | landscape design by just looking at your layout, there |
| important step. Take the time to gather the | | | | is some very good landscape design software |
| information you will need to make your decisions on | | | | available. Much of the landscape design software was |
| the elements you wish to include in your landscape | | | | originally developed for professional landscapers, but |
| design. Will you want a deck, patio, foot paths, | | | | since has been modified for the beginner who wants |
| walkways, a pond? What type of plants, trees, | | | | to do-it-themselves. There are many do-it-yourslef |
| flowers, and ground cover will you want to use? You | | | | landscape design software programs available today. |
| should research books, articles, and landscape design | | | | Landscape design software lets you see a virtual |
| magazines to help you make these decisions. This will | | | | picture of the landscape design and enables you to |
| pay off in the end by saving you money, time, and | | | | move items around and see the changes you make |
| frustration, enabeling you end up with a beautifully | | | | come to life. Some software allows you to import a |
| finished project to be proud of. | | | | photo of your home or building and designs the |
| The Design | | | | landscape around the photo. Most landscape design |
| The landscape design is your next step. You will need | | | | software programs offer advise on using and placing |
| to make a layout of the area to be landscaped, as | | | | the many different elements available today in your |
| close to scale as possible, and with accurate | | | | landscape design. A well designed landscape will |
| measurements. Many landscape design planning guides | | | | always change with time, abd some of the landscape |
| that will give you step-by-step instructions are | | | | design software available will allow you to view your |
| available on the internet for free, and books or | | | | landscape as it matures. You can see what it will look |
| eBooks are abundant. Once your landscape design | | | | like 5 or 10 years from now when the trees have |
| layout is done you can began to place your elements | | | | grown and the plants matured. |
| on the layout pad. This should be your first or | | | | Gardens |
| preliminary plan and as you progess, changes can be | | | | Many people like to incorparate a garden in their |
| transfered to your secondary or updated plans. | | | | landscape design. Gardens can be tucked away in the |
| Changing your mind often is just fine. After all this is | | | | corner of an area, or be the focal point of the entire |
| just on paper at this point and you have not spent | | | | landscape design. Gardens can even be stragecly |
| any money or performed any labor yet. | | | | placed among the plants, flowers and trees so they |
| Experimenting with a few plans is necessary before | | | | blend in with the entire landscape design. If you like |
| you come up the final landscape design. A well | | | | to garden, dont overlook all the garden design |
| planned landscape will never look the same in | | | | possiblities when planning your landscape design. |
| different seasons. Plan your landscape design to | | | | |