Aabby Custom Pools & Landscape Design

Provide Your Landscaping
With Year-Round Interest

Here's a foolproof tip for designing the perfect yard: make sure you're providing something of interest in each of the seasons. Landscaping for 4-season interest begins with a well researched plant-selection plan. The goal is to have flowering trees and/or shrubs throughout spring and summer, fall foliage in autumn and good structure in winter.

Layer Your Planting Beds

Layer your planting beds in 3 rows: a back row (facing north, preferably) with the tallest plants, a middle row with the next tallest, and a front row composed of your shortest plants. Use repetition, both in the planting bed and elsewhere in your yard, to provide unity. Ensure the roots of the plants are properly sheltered with organic MULCH, TREE BARK, or fresh PINE STRAW.

Use Evergreens for Continuity

Our first landscaping tip (above) focuses on deciduous trees and shrubs. But don't forget evergreens. The deciduous specimens provide more color and variety, while the evergreens will provide continuity and structure for winter interest

Use Annuals to Supplement
Perennial Color

Perennial flowers are wonderful for your planting beds, but they bloom for only so long. You may have perennials blooming in your bed in May, then nothing until July. Incorporating annuals into your landscaping plan will fill the voids, giving you continuous color in the yard.

Incorporate Hardscape Into
Your Landscape Design

Expand your landscaping beyond plants. Include hardscape features like WALLS and FENCES, which make an essential design statement, as they frame your property. CONCRETE PATIOS add another important hardscape feature. And STONE WALKWAYS provide smooth transitions from indoors to outdoors.

Install Water Features

One of the hottest trends is to use water features as focal points. This is one trend with sound reasoning behind it: water features are not only visually appealing, but render soothing sounds. PONDS and fountains add the nature element and they're also a lot faster to install than you think.

Don't Forget the Foliage!

Flowers are great, but don't forget the characteristics of a plant's foliage. In landscape design, varying foliage textures and colors are used to spice up the yard with diversity. Evergreen conifers, while lacking flowers altogether, nonetheless have foliage that offers a myriad of different textures and colors. For not all evergreens are green! Discover many ways to enhance the beauty of your yard.

Make Your Life Easier With a
Low-Maintenance Yard

You can follow all the above landscaping tips and still not be happy with your yard. For, besides giving your yard a pleasing appearance, you must also be sensible in planning for its maintenance. Unless you don't mind spending hours each week on upkeep, plan your design for low maintenance. Give us a call and we'll answer all your landscaping questions and help you plan your dream landscape