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.
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…
If you need a rowboat to get back to your grill, you’ve got a yard drainage problem.
So you hit the internet for DIY yard drainage solutions.
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 we check your Instagram, will there be photos of you smiling and posing, draped across a retaining wall?
Probably not. Retaining walls aren’t very exciting.
Once you know what hardscaping is, the word makes perfect sense.
It’s the hard elements in your landscaping — the paver patios and walkways, the fire pit, the structures like decks, pergolas, and pavilions.
Planning your big new Florida landscaping project? Man, there’s a lot to think about, right?
How much will it cost? What do you really need? Your head must be spinning.
Maybe head outside and relax on the paver patio, or chill beneath your poolside pergola while you sort it all out.
You can see the end result in your mind — a fantastic yard brimming with tropical palms and drifts of vibrant flowers, a cozy patio for moonlight dinners, maybe a fire pit.
But how to get there?
There are several landscape design options, from doing it yourself to hiring a landscaping company to design and install it — and a couple of options in-between.
Unless you want to fill your yard with plastic plants (hmmm, there’s an idea) you’ll have some maintenance.
But some plants are happy with bare-bones care. Just make sure they don’t die of thirst, and they’ll happily show off pretty leaves and bright blooms while you spend your time relaxing instead of toiling in your yard.
Let’s face it, when you start comparing landscaping companies online they all start to sound the same and blur together after a while, right?
Hardscape, Plantings, Lighting, Walkways...Ugh.
How to narrow down the choices and feel confident you chose the best landscaping company in Apopka?
Check out these tips: