3 Great Landscape Design Ideas

| Saturday, December 18, 2010
By James Burton


Is your home garden in disarray? When was the last time that you had a guest and he or she insisted to just stay inside your house and not spend a minute longer in your garden? If you are no longer getting excited each time you walk through it, maybe it is time to have some great new landscape design ideas to freshen things up a bit.

Sometimes we associate cleaning and maintaining our garden as a kind of work when it should not be like that. More so, it should be a passion of love because if you are not passionate about it, then why have a garden in the first place? You know from the start that it will require much of your time for its up keeping, or at least some money to pay for someone else to work on it.

To help re-ignite your passion and excite in having a garden, here are some landscape management or landscape design ideas that you can try for your own place.

Swimming Pools

Do you have the money to spend? If yes, then why not have a swimming pool installed in your garden? Nothing is more relaxing than floating on your back while looking at all the beautiful flowers and trees in your garden. Of course this will only be possible if your garden is large enough to accommodate a pool. Otherwise you may have to look at other water features for your options.

Fountains

If you do not have the space for a swimming pool, your next water feature option would be a great garden fountain. Depending on your personality, or again on the size of your garden, you can have water fountains of various sizes and designs. You can have especially built for you or just buy one that is readily available. A good garden landscaper or designer would be very helpful in picking the best fountain for your garden. There are many inexpensive fountains that you can choose from, that your wallet need not suffer just because you want one for your garden.

Home Vegetable Garden

Why not turn a part of your garden into a vegetable garden? Perhaps nothing could be more practical than that particularly in these times when the economy is far from being at its healthiest. Just think about it. You will get some great savings out of your grocery bills if most of the vegetables that your family loves to eat are readily available in your garden? Particularly during these times when the economy has yet to make a full turn around. With many people without jobs or earning very little, something like a vegetable garden at home is definitely a great savings idea. Just think about the White House and its own vegetable garden. The White House chef makes good use of the vegetables from that garden, feeding the President, his family, the staff, and the guests as well.

There are many other landscape design ideas that you can use on your home garden. Just keep an open mind to the possibilities that you can think do for it, or what a Melbourne landscaper can suggest to you. After all your garden will be there for as long as you want it to be. Why not do the best that you can for it?




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