There are plenty of benefits to a small backyard:
1. Nobody asks you to host the family reunion. (Did you really want to grill 80 hot dogs?)
2. Tourists don’t mistake your place for a state park.
3. You don’t have to send a search party out to find the mail carrier who took a wrong turn and got lost.
Sure, big backyards get all the attention in the home and garden magazines, but your small yard deserves some landscaping luxury, too.
There are signs that prove you need a fire pit:
1. You’ve been making s’mores in the microwave. (We all know that’s a crime against marshmallows.)
2. You’ve been frequently sneaking over to enjoy your neighbor’s fire pit, sometimes wearing disguises so he doesn’t know how often you’re coming over.
3. You daydream about being a caveman.
Let’s start with reasons not to install a pergola in your Florida backyard.
1. Hmmmm.
2. Well, there’s…
3. Hmmm.
Maybe we’ll have better luck with reasons to install a pergola in your Florida backyard.
Put your feet up. There are plenty. Too bad you don’t have a pergola to relax beneath as you ponder this list…
First, can we get a round of applause for Florida flowers that bloom all year? That’s a lot of work, right?
Nobody expects you to be perky and beautiful all the time. It would be exhausting.
So give them a little nod of appreciation when you walk past.
Want plants that bloom year-round in Central Florida?
Check out these blooming beauties — and some colorful bonus ideas at the end.
Sone landscape lighting mistakes are obvious. Like if you’re reading this with your leg in a cast because you tripped over your neighbor’s black cat that disappeared in your dark driveway.
Everybody loves pergolas, those pretty, airy, covered spaces that add instant class to your landscape.
It’s the perfect place to be fancy and host a party, or grab that last cherry popsicle and hide out from your kids.
If you hire any old company to install your landscape lighting, sure, you’ll have lights.
But you might not have magic.
When it’s expertly designed by skilled lighting pros, landscape lighting transforms your home and yard.
It’ll look so elegant and high-end, you might drive right past the first few nights, assuming it’s somebody else’s fantastic house.
A great fence can change everything.
Now your new puppy can romp safely around your yard.
You can eat your morning cereal on the patio in your underwear in privacy. (Yes! Finally!)
But new fences can look kind of bare.
How do you landscape around a fence?
If the only tree you think about lighting is your Christmas tree, you’re missing out.
