Landscaping Tips from Nic Tashkoff

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Top 7 Landscaping Tips: Tip #7: Hire a Professional

One of the key elements to having a beautiful home is having a great landscaped background. DIY-ers, in their attempt to save money, often find out it was a false economy, with accidents, lack of tools or expertise leaving them with all sorts of problems that end up being more expensive to fix than it [...]

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Top 7 Landscaping Tips: Tip #6: Budget

Top 7 Landscaping Tips: Tip #6: Budget
There are many hidden costs to landscaping that you may not think of straight away.
Apart from the obvious costs of landscaping such as diggers, drainage, infill, retainer walls, turf, paths, rockeries, pebbles, and walls, there are also ongoing costs that many people do not consider.
For example, outdoor [...]

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Top 7 Landscaping Tips: Tip #5: Function

Successful landscape design is not just about style, but just as importantly about function.
When planning your landscape design, it’s important to keep your lifestyle needs in mind, in terms of a use of space.

You may want to ask yourself the following questions:

What will the space will be used for?
How do you imagine using the [...]

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Top 7 Landscaping Tips: Tip #3: Style

Tip #3: Take the style of your home into consideration
Before beginning your landscaping work, it’s best to take the style of your home into account. It’s very important to ensure that your landscape design is going to harmonise with your home, both from a design point of view and practical point of view.
If your landscaping [...]

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Top 7 Landscaping Tips: Tip #2: Collect Ideas

Tip #2: Collect (or even steal!) landscaping ideas
In their desire to be original with their landscaping, people often get very confused.
It can often be a much more practical starting point to base your landscape design on an existing design, look, or style you’ve seen and like.
Books, magazines, and the internet are great sources of [...]

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Top 7 Landscaping Tips: Tip #1: Planning

Tip #1: Planning
The first step in landscape or garden planning is to look at what you already have.
Keep a list of things you presently like and dislike about your existing landscape, the changes you’d like to make, as well as your plan for the use of your landscape space and the additional landscaping design you would like [...]

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What is Landscaping?

Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including:
living elements, such as flora or fauna
gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beautiful environment within the landscape
natural elements such as landforms, terrain shape and elevation, or bodies of water
human elements such as [...]

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