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Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid in Home Landscaping Design!

Success in home landscape design is certainly attainable for do-it-yourselfers, but there are some pitfalls that should be avoided if maximum satisfaction is to be achieved. Thus the need for this list of 10 mistakes to be avoided in home landscape design. The mistakes covered range from miscalculations that have practical ramifications to more subtle errors that negatively impact your enjoyment of your home landscape design.

1. Piecemeal Planting: Failure to Have a Plan
2. Having a Lawn Just Because “Everyone Else Does It”
3. Insufficient Fall Color in Your Home Landscape Design
4. Lack of Winter Interest in Your Home Landscape Design
5. Failure to Irrigate
6. Planting on a Hillside Prone to Erosion
7. Failure to Work With What You Have
8. Failure to Incorporate Deer-Resistant Plants in Your Home Landscape Design
9. You Never Get Anything Done in the Yard Because Tools Are Never Handy
10. Forgetting Functionality in Home Landscape Design

Source:  about.com, landscaping

June 3, 2009 Posted by kbargers | home maintenance, Nashville, real estate, tennessee | curb appeal, homes, landscaping | Leave a Comment