The stark winter months are a great time to take stock of your landscaping. Are you hoping to make changes for the coming spring and summer? Could your current design benefit from color and texture that would add interest in the winter?
Your local landscaping company is a great resource for planning and designing your vision for your yard. These experts are usually available through the winter months to make landscape planning in Akron, Ohio, and the surrounding area a perfect project before the weather breaks and makes planting possible. And while most homeowners are eager to begin the transformation, the professionals advise taking the extra time to plan and design to ensure you get the year-round look you want.
Choosing the right trees and shrubs
Achieving color and interest in your yard year-round means making strategic choices in planting. While annuals are an easy way to get summer color, work with your landscaper to learn how to use flowering trees, perennials that bloom at varying times of year, fall foliage options such as ornamental grasses, and evergreens in varying sizes to create an explosion of color any time of year. Many perennials provide green backdrops in the summer with bright blooms in the fall. Various trees and shrubs hold berries or other fruit through the winter, while others provide year-round green needles or distinctive bark in deep browns with interesting texture.
Your landscaping professional can also educate you on pruning that can be delayed until spring to provide some interest in an otherwise barren winter yard. Some ornamental grasses develop deep blue or fall colors that maintain their vibrance in the cold months. Some perennials and wild flowers, including black-eyed susans, sedum, and cinnamon stick ferns, sport dried seed heads that will add interest to your yard. These can easily be pruned in early spring to encourage lush growth.
Adding hardscape
Benches, low walls, patios, walkways, and firepits can add interest and function to your yard, but your landscaping expert will tell you planning is key. Winter months are the perfect time to create your vision and consider a paved walkway to a garden bench surrounding by year-round color, or a stamped concrete patio with a firepit nestled against a backdrop of evergreen shrubs.
Even your flowerbeds will benefit from the additional consideration of the perfect mulch, gravel, or river rock to finish the look.
Start your landscape design in Mogadore, Ohio
If you are planning a new landscaping project in your Akron area home, consider the landscaping design, prep, and building services from Boyle’s Nursery & Landscaping. Boyle’s experts begin with your goals in mind to carefully plan and design a total landscaping vision that will transform your yard with colors and levels that provide a garden of beauty every season.
Contact Boyle’s today or click here for more information about all of Boyle’s services, including grading and filling, topsoil and fertilizer services, and guidance on shaping and pruning your trees and shrubs. Boyle’s provides full service landscaping, from design to installation and maintenance.