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If you want some landscaping in your backyard, it is not enough simply to a local garden store and pick up a few plants and a few tools, and then to work. You must be a little thought and planning first.

The reason is simple - you want to live with things and creatures thrive best in the right soil and in the right sunlight. If you do not know the pH balance of the earth, or the stains from your backyard to the sun and which parts of the shadow, you will be doing themselves a disservice when it comes to the landscape, you find how expensive that your plants not flourish, it is hoped, and then you have to do everything again.

And then there is the question of drainage. Are there any soft spots in your lawn, where the water automatically after a rain? Is that where the soft spots to be? Is the soil a tendency that you have with you? If you do not have a fence around your garden ... There is a view you would like to stress, and a view you want to de-stress?

It is only when you know that all these things you should really your landscaping.

If you think you do not have the time to learn all the intricacies of the pH balance and the best types of grass for your lawn, you can hire a professional landscape designer to do it all for you. Here you will find many companies in the phone book, but you must do your research. Make sure you hire a company that has been in business for a long time and know what they do. Check with the Better Business Bureau to ensure that they have no complaints against them. Ask for and check their references. You will probably have a website, which make it easy for you to go online and various companies, products and services, as well.

But the fun of working with your backyard doing it yourself!

So, you have researched and learned all the facts to your backyard, that you need to know. They know what kind of grass is best for your climate and the best to the hard use of children up and down, for example. You know where the shadows, and the stains of the sun. You know the drainage patterns and if there are any weaknesses that you are using. We know the existing trees to keep yourself and what you have to remove, if available. You know, the best place for the new trees to yourself ... and what is for them.

So now all you have to do is to landscape design.

Get a three-ring binder so that you can use all your design ideas in one place. And then ... Plan. Start with a list of all the goals you have for your garden - with the classification of the lawns to buy flowers and plants to build a winter garden - whatever you think you want to write it. But nothing is.

walk around the block and talk to your neighbors and friends. Discuss your ideas with them landscaping. But this is not a case of to keep pace with the Jones! Do not decide to build a winter garden, just because your neighbor wants - your argument is obvious. Unless you get along well with your neighbors and have no qualms to say: "Yes, I loved his so much that I just order one of my own." This kind of good-natured respect between friends and neighbors who do good.

But no more than you should design the landscape around your preferences and needs, and not what is "flavor of the month."

walk your neighborhood, then, and see what your neighbors have their yards. Take another NEIGHBORHOODS and see what happens there. They are sure that you have many good ideas that you can customize to your own yard. And then of course there is the Internet. When walking through your neighborhood will give you a few ideas, think about how many ideas you can surf from the infinite expanse of the Internet.

There are a variety of print magazines that give you tips on landscape design, from 101 Tips for landscaping to landscape architecture to horticulture to Fine Gardening.

But you're not yet ready to go and buy the equipment and tools. The next thing you need is a map of the landscape design, preferably scale. You can do this on your own with graph paper, or you can purchase software that allows you to three-dimensional landscapes, all without a shovel.

It is only after you complete your landscape on paper that you then to your backyard. And then you have a masterpiece.

Andrew Caxton is the author and editor of many lawn care articles and newsletters published at http://www.lawn-mowers-and-garden-tractors.com You can find more information and resources on landscaping at his website.

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