Planning Is Key For A Landscape That Always Looks Good

When you start to think about how you are going to design your landscaping, it is important to remember that when the seasons change, so will your plants. If you want a landscape that is beautiful year-round, you must plan for each season’s unique qualities. Understanding when certain plants will bloom and grow throughout the year is the first step when starting to understand what will be best for your garden. At Ciminello’s, we work with our clients to understand what they are looking for from their landscape throughout the entire year. We work with you to give you the landscaping that you have always dreamed of having. Understanding the different ways plants interact with each other and the seasons can be challenging and confusing. We are here to take on the challenges of designing a landscape and provide you with a service that will leave you happy year-round.

We Start By Choosing Various Plants That Peak Throughout The Year.

It is important to consider having a diverse group of plants that can bring visual interest to your landscape throughout the year. The key is to find plants that you like that are beautiful during their own time in each period of the year. Each season offers a different variety of plants that can serve different purposes. Having at least one of these in each season will allow for your yard to always be presentable and looking perfect.

Spring Flowers Are A Must When Creating Your Space

The springtime is when most flowers will begin to bloom. Selecting a few blooming plants will give your garden a soft whimsical look that is refreshing and gives a sense of rejuvenation. Flowers are proven to enhance curb appeal and make your home more welcoming. The beauty flowers can add isn’t just for you to enjoy, but flowers will also provide a healthy ecosystem around your house. Flowers provide a natural habitat to your garden that will help pollinate and help your garden stay strong and healthy. Flowers can also help enrich your soil by providing vitamins and minerals. The quality of your home will be enhanced visually, and you are also providing a space where you and the world around you can thrive.

Warm Weather Summer

Like spring flowers, summer flowers are also important. Summer plants can help purify water and help hold moisture during the season’s impact on rain. The roots of these flowering summer plants can help soil stay in place and will help if you are experiencing a large amount of rain caused by the summer heat. Layering in summer plants and annuals alongside your spring plants can help give your garden a nice layered look. Once the spring plants start to die off, your garden will not be bare since your summer plants have emerged.

Fall Autumn Foliage

Incorporating shrubs, fall plants, and other autumnal foliage is something a lot of homeowners do not think about. Once fall comes around and your summer plants slowly start to die off, you should plan for a few shrubs that can last year-round to fill in the spaces of your landscape. This will ensure that you don’t have any spaces that do not look empty. There are plenty of fall plants that are gorgeous and will help give your home a warm autumnal feeling when the leaves begin to fall. Making sure you plan for the seasons to start to change will help make sure your yard is not empty by the time winter comes around. There are plenty of hardy trees and shrubs that will help your space look full even if plants are not in season.

Winter Evergreens

Incorporating evergreens such as boxwoods and holly will provide some texture and greenery to your home when the seasons change. Cooler temperatures are when there are no more flowering plants, most homes look very bare during this time because they focus on spring and summertime. Poor planning and only focusing on plants for specific months will leave you with an empty landscape by the time winter comes around. Adding evergreens and ornamental grasses will help make your space look full and still put together even when there is little growing during this time, especially in the Midwest.

Incorporate Evergreens That Will Last Year-Round

Evergreens are essential to landscape planning. An evergreen is any plant that retains its leaves throughout the entire year. These types of plants are an important part of designing landscape because they provide visual interest throughout the entire season and will continue to get bigger and hold their shape while your other plants become dormant. They will allow your space to not look bare and they can also help create depth and privacy. Using evergreens in your landscape design can also help save you money. Being able to rely on one plant that will last all year will keep you from having to plan what plant to put in a certain space for each of the seasons.

Plant for You and Wildlife

When you decide to transform your space with landscape design, you are also providing wildlife the essentials it needs to thrive. Using plants will provide different animals and insects the ability to survive. This will not only help your plants look better and last longer through pollination, but it can also add beauty to your space. Adding certain plants can entice certain animals or insects to your space. If you want to see butterflies in your garden to give it a more whimsical feel, you can add plants that they are attracted to such as milkweed or roses. Knowing what you want out of your landscape is an important part of the planning process. This information will help you or the designer who is helping you know what your goals are for the space.

Understand The Growth Patterns Of What You Are Planting

Create depth in your landscape by using plant that have various heights. Understanding how tall and wide a plant or flower will become will help you understand the space in which you are planting.

Don’t Forget About Hardscapes!

Using hardscapes such as stones or wood accessories can add a lot of dimension and visual interest to your space. Think about adding pathways, stone walls, or pergolas to help create space within your landscape. This will allow you to get more out of your space.

We Will Work With You From Beginning To End

Give Ciminello’s a call today to learn more about our process and let us know how we can help you transform your landscape. We will start by performing an on-site consultation and discuss all the ideas and possibilities available to you. After we get an idea of what your expectations and dreams for your space are, we will perform a survey that will help us create a space that is perfect for your house. From there, we will create a 3D rendering that we will propose to you. We will work with you to tweak and refine the perfect plan, so you are 100% satisfied. Once we have created the perfect plan for you and your home, we will schedule your project and work to make your dream into a reality.

Call Ciminello’s Today To Get A Design Started!

Call us today to get started! We are so excited to work with you and transform your space into everything you have always imagined and more. We have designed many landscapes in the North Columbus area. Let us show you how we can think outside of the box and refresh your landscape. Your home is guaranteed to look beautiful year-round when you use Ciminiello’s landscape design services and maintenance.

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