Houp Landscaping – Enhancing Nature's Beauty
Get on the Path to a Great Landscape!
Outdoor living has been a growing home improvement category for years, but with people (children included) working from home, the need for private spaces beyond the four walls of your home is greater than ever before. There’s nothing worse than being interrupted during a work Zoom call. That’s why we’ve put together an easy-to-follow plan on how you can transform your backyard into a usable space that puts in extra work every day, just like you.
1. Get Ready to Grow
Preparing and planning for your landscape upgrade is possibly the most important step in creating an outdoor living area. Before you decide to pursue a custom outdoor area, consider some of the following questions:
- What’s the function of the space?
- Will your new space match your current and future lifestyle?
- How much maintenance work are you willing to do?
- Do you want temporary or permanent seating?
- How much wildlife interaction do you want in my landscape?
Every property is different and so is the taste & lifestyle of each homeowner. Whether your goal is easy maintenance, attracting pollinators, or creating an outdoor entertainment area, a landscape design that caters to a client’s wants and needs is essential to a successful landscape install.
2. Fresh Plantings
Adding fresh plantings to your landscape helps fill in any bare spots and adds just the right amount of color for you to enjoy. Right now, people are loving the pops of color from various flowering trees, like Weeping Cherry and Magnolia. For season-long color and texture, try incorporating a variety of perennials, grasses, and shrubs into your landscape. If native plants are your preference, adding Beebalm, Little Blue Stem, and Winterberry can help attract pollinators and provide lasting color. No matter what plant you choose, it’s important to consider how much space you’re trying to fill and how much the plant will grow.
3. Start Living Outdoors
In 2021, we all need a space to gather outdoors with our friends and family. Patios are the true MVP’s of any outdoor living space. They make balancing work, play, entertaining, cooking, and everything else you want to do in your outdoor space possible. Easily plan for and create your unique outdoor living space by choosing from a wide variety of patio pavers, mixing styles and colors. Any handy DIY’er can handle laying their own pavers, but many fail to consider the time, size, design, and other important considerations of any hardscape project like the list in point 1.
4. Blooms & Plantings for Privacy AND Beauty
With outdoor entertaining rising as the new trend in outdoor living, it’s important to make your space multifunctional and make it feel more private. Add some privacy to your outdoor living area by planting new dense evergreen foliage that will make your next backyard gathering feel like you’re enjoying a private getaway. From the classic look of an easy maintenance dark green hedge-like Boxwood or Arborvitae to the sweet-smelling white blooms of Privet and Viburnum, turning your landscape into a secluded retreat with privacy plantings is simple and accessible to any budget.
5. Light it up!
We’re firm believers that any outdoor living space needs a fire pit. Adding a Fire Pit to your patio makes those cool Spring and Summer nights more comfortable and extends how long into the season you can enjoy your outdoor space. With a variety of high-quality wall blocks or natural stone materials to choose from, your fire pit should complement the colors and style of your home and the rest of your outdoor living space. Many DIY’ers think that building a fire pit in the backyard is an easy job, but having the proper equipment and material knowledge that only experienced designers & installers have is essential for any long-lasting firepit project.
