Graph Paper

A detailed plan property is the first step in planning your home landscaping. And it is not as scary as it sounds. Trade shovel for a pencil and let's talk about some basics.

graph paper is your friend.

Use it to prepare a detailed plan of your property. Typically a scale of either 1 /8 or 1 /4 inch, a foot should work. The use of such Graenordnung, sketch your property line and in all existing structures house, driveway, existing terraces and walkways, walls and fences, trees and bushes. Select the doors and windows in your sketch of the house-they will have an impact on the positioning of plantings.

Don 't forget, from high-voltage transmission lines (they will affect your decision on the amount of plantations in this field), underground utilities (You do not want to dig up your gas line, nor do you want to pasture tree on the roof of a water line) and easements.

Last but not least, make a note of the drainage flow - if this is an issue in your property as well as prevailing winds east-west orientation, and all preferable view of your property (that is, could you wish to hide the neighbor's shed with rust on evergreens Northern your property, but from the southern view wide open to take advantage of a distant city scape) .

Well, to experiment.

Now it's time to secure your ideas for landscaping. But not ruin the action plan lasted only one hour to graphic presentation. Take the land plan and either Xerox it 15 times and work on the copies (you go through that many trials and errors), or use tracing paper to put on the action plan and work your magic in the transparent paper. Anyway, now you can use your imagination run free. Begin by focusing on application areas turf, a vegetable garden for the infamous home-grown tomato, a terrace or deck for Outdoor Living, perhaps a fenced dog run king to his own room and keep him from upending Great Aunt Ethel saen sipping tea on the terrace for outdoor living.

How do you want to move - and by - your landscaping?

Do you need a path from the curb to the front door? From the front drive to backyard? Do you want both sides of the House accessible on the back? Straight or cumbersome way to the garden from the back door? Where do you need privacy? Is there a prevailing wind require a wind block? As the sun arc across the sky from east to west, how would you like to take advantage of it-summer and winter? For example, a redbud trees planted or mimosas on the southern edge of the terrace is proposed that the shaded area in the summer, but the sun to stream through the leafless branches in winter. After thinking over a reflecting pool in the area? Or have an aversion to radical? Okay scrap the mimosa (the middle of the summer feathery flowers are very chaotic) and examine dogwood or river birch. Well, if you're working it.

Bring them all home.

As you begin to visualize yourself in the landscape design, drawing on hard surfaces-the fences, footpaths, paving and decking. You're almost there. Now, they doodled flower beds and areas of the words "planting" and day, what the plants. Shade? Aesthetics? Erosion control? Privacy screen? Kostlichen edibles? Aroma-therapy? Plants grow-so factor for the Grae of mature trees and shrubs in the calculation of the parameter space. Okay-time to begin some preliminary selection of vegetable plants from actual lists catalogued in your field of climate zone, taking into account the artistic concepts of balance and proportion. But that is another story.

David Alan Carter is a homeowner, budding landscaper and published writer who lives each of his articles--and has the aching back and purple thumb to prove it. Learn about balance and proportion, and how to avoid the author's three biggest landscape mistakes, at PlanningLandscaping.com

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