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Family Friendly Backyard

If you are someone who wants to use your backyard for the family and friends to come over and enjoy barbeques and spend time together, then there are many choices for you. Extending your patio will give you more entertaining space and more room for extra seating at dinnertime. You may even consider adding a roof to your patio. This will allow you to enjoy the outdoors even when the weather is not so nice.

A great way to get the whole family in on the backyard landscaping is to plant trees or flowers together. Have the kids help with the flowers. Let them each choose a special flower or even a tree and let them plant them in a special place. This is a great way to create memories and a family backyard at the same time.

A great backyard-landscaping project can be done in one or two weekends. Make it special and make it reflect your own personality to create your own sanctuary and getaway from the rest of the world.

Themes

There are so many different themes that you can go with for your backyard. If you are dreaming of a tropical getaway, line your backyard with fruit trees, and coordinating flowers. Put a hammock between two trees and swing in the warm summer breeze. Throw some candles around your patio and some tropical throw rugs on the floor. You will be surprised what props can do to add feeling and warmth.

Romantic Themes

If you want to go back to your honeymoon days, just go to the backyard. Put in a privacy fence and maybe a Jacuzzi or hot tub. Add in some soft colors and sweet smelling candles and you have a honeymoon getaway in your own backyard. Add in some exotic flowers to your design to give your backyard some tropical accents.

Back yard landscaping is an exciting hobby for many people. You can make any backyard an enjoyable and relaxing getaway for the whole family. This can be your place for peace and quite or maybe a fun spot to enjoy with the kids after a long day. No matter what you use your backyard for; there are dozens of landscaping ideas to choose from when it comes to making it your personal space.

Creative ideas anyone can do

If you are looking for something to make your backyard pop out and reflect your personality, then go for it! If you are looking for a fun and wild spot to spend time with friends and family in, then what a better place then your backyard? Go for vibrant wildflowers and decorative landscaping materials. If you are designing a new patio, choose fun colors for the tiles or stones on the floor. Add special touches to your backyard to give it your personal touch.

Perhaps you are not particularly interested in making money from selling potted plants, bulbs, or seeds. Still, you want a self-supporting or profit-making greenhouse. A number of hybridizers use their greenhouses to hasten the growth of many plants, including iris, hemerocallis, and roses. Others devote their houses to the propagation of dahlias. Still others find a greenhouse ideal for promoting the growth of young evergreens which will eventually be sold for landscaping.

If you don’t sell all of the annuals started in your greenhouse, why not set them out in the garden and grow them for cut flowers? Leftover tomato plants can also be handled profitably. A roadside proprietor near us sets his in neat rows out in the garden. When the tomatoes ripen he puts up this sign:

Tomatoes-Vine Ripened

YOU PICK ‘EM

50 per bushel

With no more work than the original planting, and some weeding and watering, this grower realizes hundreds of dollars every season from materials which otherwise he might discard.

Herbs and other specialty plants also have a good profit potential.

An Illinois grower has excellent results with amaryllids. His ridge-type greenhouse is 10- by 16-feet with one glass end, the other attached to his home, a prefab, it cost about $400.00. He orders Dutch bulbs through a wholesaler and immediately retails them to local and mail-order customers. Keeping files on the collections of his customers, he encourages them to try special varieties. These are ordered for them and shipped at the proper time.

Leftover bulbs are planted in flats, and allowed to bloom. The choicest are pollinated, and seeds from them are sold. Older bulbs are kept and sold as larger stock or as flowering potted plants.

A California grower stocks a variety of amaryllids. Larger ones like Agapanthus, Clivia, and some Haemanthus, are used by his customers as unusual landscaping material. Cyrtanthus is a favorite with collectors, arrangers, and corsage-makers. His customers, local and mail order, can always depend on him to supply them with the newest in amaryllids.

An Oklahoma grower reports a neat profit from sales of her greenhouse-grown zephyranthes used in corsages for her retail trade.

I sell seeds of the Dutch amaryllis, fifteen for $1.00. Haemanthus seeds go two for a quarter, and small haemanthus bulbs at $1.25 to $2.00 each.

Erosion can be a problem

To reduce potential erosion problems, plant lots of shrubs and cover your ground with heavy mulch. The mulch will help to insulate plants from the cold and it will also help keep them from sprouting too quickly when warm airs moves in unexpectly.

In addition to fighting erosion, you may also have to deal with the challenge of maintaining a good moisture level in the garden. This is due to the steep slope and because it makes it difficult for the ground to retain water.

Designing the perfect landscape for your home can be a challenge. This is true especially if your backyard is a steep hillside. If this is the case for your yard, then prepare yourself for some added work. Do not be afraid to experiment with new ideas and have fun creating your own design.

Preparing your area first

Do the preparations for the new landscape is the first obstacle in the hillside landscaping process. If there is any debris or growth that needs to be cleared, do that first. Make sure all the rocks, brush, and weeds are gone to make space for your new design.