Very often individuals and families will purchase a home, fully intending to handle all the landscaping on their own. As much as many people enjoy gardening, landscaping is a tall order, and it can be physically draining as well as time consuming. The end results are certainly worth the effort, but, too often, it is a matter of biting off more than you can chew.
For the big jobs involving the lawn, trees, and shrubs around the outside of the house, it is easier, and, at times, more economical, to peruse online for local landscapers. These professionals are not hard to find. Wherever there is land to tend to, they will be nearby. Choosing to hire professional landscapers to work on the yard surrounding their home provides homeowners with the opportunity to increase the home’s resale value by up to 14%. Attractive landscaping can reduce a home’s time on the market by six weeks, sometimes more. Having professional landscapers come in to freshen up, or even build a yard and garden from the bottom up, will speak volumes to perspective buyers looking for their forever home.
Most homeowners in the United States, about 83%, place great importance on having a yard, and 90% of those feel that its upkeep and maintenance is just as important. Attractive landscape design increases people’s desire to spend time in their yard, and many will spend most of their nonworking warm weather hours enjoying their outdoor space.
Professional landscapers not only take care of the lawn mowing and shrub trimming, their job also branches out, so to speak, into construction, if perhaps the home requires a retaining wall, stone wall, brick walkways, patios, or more. Landscapers will schedule recurring maintenance appointments so that the homeowner never has to worry about their garden and lawn, they offer snow and ice removal, and spring and autumn cleanup and planting. Many landscaping companies will, in addition, offer power washing service of the customer’s home, or other out buildings on their property.
When first consulting a landscaper, customers will often times be offered a free consultation. Professional landscapers will meet with the homeowner at the house and will provide an estimate of expenses, depending upon what the owner wants done. The owner could be looking for a complete overhaul of the back yard, and may want their new yard to reflect a specific style. All of this is open for discussion at the first meeting. The owner may like their yard just as it is, but would like to employ landscapers for its upkeep and regular maintenance.
There are innumerable possibilities for a yard, whether large or small. Landscape design is not restricted to a certain square footage. There is something attractive and eye catching for the outside of every home. For instance, because of the variation of weather patterns in different states, landscape design in a town in New England will differ greatly from landscape design in a southern, or western, town. In Texas, plano landscaping design will be planned around that location’s particular type of weather, which will not be the same as the weather in a town in a northern state would be.
Landscaping can include a wide variety of configurations. Many landscaping companies offer the construction of many different projects, such as tennis courts, putting greens, and pool remodeling or even removal. Building a petscape for the family pet is not out of the question either! Typically, a landscaper will get an idea of the pet’s comfort level, what they like to do and where they like to be in the yard, and they will plan their petscape around it. A path can be constructed for the pet to walk on, lined by shrubbery and bushes that are non toxic to animals, thereby, pet friendly. They will design a comfortable space for a pet, creating deterrents to any digging locations the pet has enjoyed in the past, like invisible fences.
Whatever the homeowner’s landscaping needs, there is always a local professional able to get the job done. Proper and attractive landscaping, as mentioned earlier, increases the value of a home, as well as providing the perfect spot for a much needed staycation that does arise from time to time!
