Whether you have 10 acres or a city lot we have landscaping ideas to get your creative juices flowing.

Try this to get your thoughts on landscaping ideas for your yard. Go outside once in the morning, once in the early afternoon and once again late afternoon around twilight.
Sit on your patio or maybe, where you’d like your patio to be and close your eyes.
Pay attention to sounds. Are there any you’d prefer not to hear?
Air conditioners, traffic, dogs barking?
Backyard water features are one way to solve that problem and it can be done inexpensively.
This one takes up little space and can work in any yard.

Keep your eyes closed. Can you smell anything pleasant? Hopefully nothing unpleasant, but consider that as well.
They say that smells stay in your memory for years.

Maybe you remember the fragrance of lilacs from when you were a child.
There are many fragrant annuals and perennials as well as shrubs that can be incorporated into your landscaping ideas. Plant them where you can enjoy them the most.

OK, now open your eyes.
Is there something in your line of sight you don’t want to look at while you’re relaxing? A utility box, a neighbor’s (or your own) garbage can, a patch of your lawn that just won’t grow grass, maybe your view is the street. (Mine is my neighbor's back yard, actually cleaner than usual in this photo)

Let’s look at privacy landscaping ideas and talk about ground covers and shade loving plants to cover up barren areas.

The idea is to notice what you may have been living with and decide if and how you’d like to change it.

Not all projects have to be on a large scale.
A touch here and there can make the difference between a yard and a place where you’d like to sit and entertain or read a book.

Let’s break landscaping ideas down into smaller pieces. Follow the links to get more details.

Is your yard baking in the summer heat?
A pergola can add dappled shade and a place to hang many baskets of flowers or vines. You can make it small and cozy to cover a bench or large enough to cover a whole patio.

Shade trees can lower the temperature under them by 5 to 10 degrees and also add value to your home should you ever decide to sell.

Do you need more sun in your yard?
Pruning can not only open an area up to more sunlight but it can improve the health of your tree as well.

There are cost as well as maintenance differences between brick or concrete patios and decks. Let’s see some of those differences.

Create a path to a shed, to the vegetable garden, to show off your flowers. There are easy paths and more difficult ones to do yourself.

Are you trying to figure our what to do with that slope in your yard? We'll tell you how to landscape that slope with plants.

Maybe you'd like a retaining wall for the slope instead. We have details on building various retaining walls.

People often put in a wall just for the way it gives height to the yard.

There is a value to having many varieties of plants in your yard that you may never have considered.
The more diversity you plant, the more diverse the wildlife visitors will be.
Let’s look at landscaping ideas that incorporate the birds and the bees (literally).

Xeriscaping or planting species that flourish mostly on the water that nature provides can be accomplished usually by planting flowers and shrubs native to your area.
Most perennials that you’ll find at your local garden center are native.

Given that your lawn is probably the most prevalent plant in your landscape, we need to go over how to take care of it too. We have devoted an entire section to discussing lawns.

Let’s talk about creating an outdoor room too; from a simple spot to set a bench under an arbor and a container garden

to deciding between a patio and a deck.

I have new landscaping ideas for my own yard all the time. They don’t always work out the way I’d like them to but sometimes, experimenting is part of the fun.
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