As you add elements to your backyard to transform it into your perfect outdoor living space, it’s sometimes easy to get bogged down with all the different choices. While adding some specific features to your landscape may beautify that one area, it may be useful to think of the bigger picture first. There are plenty of fantastic landscaping improvements that will spur the best ideas in your backyard design. Your outdoor space could benefit from any of these landscaping trends in Trenton and New Boston, MI.
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Update Your Patio
As the center of all activities in your backyard, your patio takes a heavy load. It needs to stand up to the weight and pressure of everyone having fun over time, withstand vicious freeze-thaw cycles, provide a safe environment, and look beautiful all the time without constant maintenance. Patio pavers are modern options that can manage each of those duties. Non-slip pavers add safety to areas with lots of water contact like pool or hot tub decks. Permeable pavers allow water to seep through the joints between the pavers, which reduces flooding on the landscaping and returns water to the aquifer in a more controlled way. Before you consider what else to do in your landscape, start by updating your patio pavers: that step alone will take your landscape to the next level.
Reduce Your Backyard Lawn Area
Everyone knows how important the lawn is to the American household. It’s that beautiful living carpet that helps create a safe space for playing and a great view of the front and back of the home. However, the grass that makes up lawns consumes considerable resources like water and often requires frequent use of chemicals like weed killer and fertilizer. Lawns also take up a huge amount of space and in households without small children or pets who play on the lawn often, they are underused given the amount of upkeep they require. An emerging trend is to keep part of the lawn, but downsize it in order to help create a more useful outdoor living space such as a larger patio which sees more activity than any other part of the landscape.
Incorporate Fire
The inclusion of a fire feature in your landscape will have some truly incredible benefits. The warmth that fire creates will automatically attract any guest in the backyard just as it has done for millennia. A fire feature will quickly become a focus of your entire outdoor living area, adding warmth along with ambient light and a welcoming atmosphere perfect for the biggest parties or the quietest conversations. You can choose from either the basic fire pit, the versatile fire table, or a majestic outdoor fireplace; and there’s no rule that you have to stick to just one fire feature. You can certainly enjoy two, or all three, in various parts of your landscape: for example, an outdoor fireplace in your patio seating area; a fire table adjacent to your outdoor kitchen; and a fire pit located in a “destination spot” in an interesting part of your landscape.
Emphasize Plants
No matter which amenities you introduce to your outdoor living space, remember that the main attraction is the outdoors. Friends and family will flock to an outdoor living space with an emphasis on native plant life. You can either have a dense and lush concentration of native plants creating a living wall or some carefully trimmed native shrubs that enable an elegant feeling. Plants put the finishing touch on your landscape design. We recommend installing native plants that are perfectly adapted to the location, and will reward you with color, fragrance, texture, and even edible delights.
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