Landscaping Tips for Beginners

by Kevin Smith Author

Are you looking at doing some landscaping in Sparks, NV? Probably the best thing that you can do is hire a professional landscape company to do the dirty work for you. Here are some pretty low key things to do with your landscape design, especially if you are a beginner.

Consider a Xeriscape

Somehow, somewhere in the history of landscaping, people got in their minds that their yards had to be filled with the lush green lawn in order to look beautiful and taken care of. This is simply not true, especially if you live in a hot and arid climate. Consider filling your side yards or even your entire yard with landscape material like pea gravel or sand. With the help of a professional landscape design company, it is possible to have a xeriscape or a landscape without grass, that looks great and polished.

Pick a Focal Point

Every landscape design, regardless of how simple it is, should start with a focal point. Perhaps you have a large tree or a group of shrubs or unique flowers that you want to showcase. Let that be the starting point from which the rest of your landscape flows. If you don't already have a focal point, choose what you want your landscape to center on and place that item in your design to start.

Put in a Flower Bed

Your landscape doesn’t have to be overflowing with the finest flowers money can buy to look vibrant and beautiful. But perhaps putting in one flower bed around your mailbox, under a window, or in a favorite spot by the house would be a good idea. There are a lot of different native plants that you can choose from that would thrive in your environment. Many of them would be very low maintenance as well. Talk to your contractor about the best placement for the flower bed if you choose to do this and what to plant in it that would best fit your lifestyle.

Plant Native Plants

Especially in unique climates such as Nevada’s, planting native plants is really the key to getting a landscape design that works and is exactly as much maintenance as you feel you can do. Native plants are more likely to thrive without a lot of extra help if they are in their natural environment anyway.

If you're looking to restart with your landscaping in Sparks, NV, or if you are just looking for simple ways to maintain a yard in a low-key way, these tips will help.