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A more eye-catching landscape design is what many homeowners yearn for. But without the right inspiration, bringing that intention to life is far from easy. That’s why we’ve created this list, which will introduce you to six fantastic design styles for you to explore. After that, we’ll reveal a state-of-the-art tool that makes it easy to envision these designs in your very own yard.
Invest in Outdoor Lighting
Don’t make the mistake of only considering your landscape’s daytime appearance. If you make that common pitfall, you’ll miss out on a surefire way to enhance your property in more ways than one.
Outdoor lighting dramatically enhances the aesthetics of your nighttime landscape by highlighting outdoor spaces and visually pleasing features like specimen trees. Landscape lighting can also make your property safer by making it easier to navigate at night and discouraging would-be nighttime thieves.
Add Slope Stability in a Beautiful Way
Sloped landscapes create many headaches for homeowners who want to redesign their properties. Still, there are plenty of tactics you can use to simultaneously make your hilly site more beautiful and more resistant to erosion.
There are many ornamental plants, including groundcovers, shrubs, and trees, that use their roots to stabilize the soil on your slope. Thoughtfully designed retaining walls and terraces can also play both a functional and aesthetic role when managing slopes, especially when they consist of alluring materials like natural stone.
Grow Healthy Plants Even in the Heart of the Desert
While there are plenty of locations in which growing healthy plants is difficult, few are more challenging than arid desert landscapes. But despite extreme temperatures and a lack of rainfall, many people call these regions home and want to make their properties as lush as can be.
For those homeowners, the best way to grow plants without relying on constant watering is through a practice called xeriscaping. Xeriscaping is a design style that depends on selecting plants that are already well-suited to a setting where water is hard to come by. These plants come in a surprisingly wide variety that includes shrubs, flowering perennials, and cacti.
Plant to Enhance Your Home and the Environment
There’s an increasing number of homeowners who view landscape design as more than a chance to increase the visual appeal of their homes. These environmentally minded property owners also see it as a chance to support the health of the natural world.
If you want to take an eco-friendly approach to landscape design, you’ll be pleased to know that there are many ways to achieve that goal. Most importantly, you’ll want to avoid invasive plant species and prioritize plants native to your area. You can also design your garden to support pollinators and create habitat spaces for wildlife.
Make Use of Even the Smallest Spaces
Do your garden design struggles arise from the fact that your yard does not provide much space in which your ideas can unfold? If so, the good news for you is that there are plenty of ways to enliven even the smallest landscape spaces, making them both attractive and inviting.
There are plenty of plants with modest mature sizes that fit well in small spaces and can tolerate the lower sunlight quantities that are typical to such areas. Likewise, small garden areas often prove to be some of the best areas for creating a quiet and secluded space for personal relaxation.
Create a Beautiful Border
If you are like many homeowners, your yard likely consists of a large patch of lawn. Lush grass can be useful and beautiful in its own right. However, sometimes, a simple lawn space surrounded by dull plantings can use some work to make the space all the more appealing.
At times, improving a lawn space has nothing to do with treating the lawn itself. Instead, surrounding your lawn with border plantings can be the best way to make your lawn more elegant than it once was. Mixes of textured foliage and vibrant flowers throughout your garden beds often make for the best effect.
How RescapeAI Turns Your Landscaping Vision into Reality
Knowing about six of the most popular landscaping trends is only a starting point. The next step is to take action to bring your favorite design idea to life. Unfortunately, this is the stage at which many homeowners struggle.
If you’re looking for an easy way to generate your landscape ideas, give RescapeAI a try. RescapeAI is an innovative garden design tool that relies on Artificial Intelligence to envision a wide range of landscaping ideas in your very own yard. Try it out today and discover why many homeowners consider RescapeAI the most convenient way to explore their landscaping visions.
