Designing Your Perfect Summer Haven

It’s not summer yet, but when you live in a state like Texas, known for its size, you must start making big plans for big barbeques and outdoor parties months ahead! While you may not need to make your shopping list just yet, you can’t wait until the last minute to plan your landscape! Beyond day-to-day property management and landscape maintenance, it’s time to think about landscape design to plan how your yard looks this summer. For example, what do you want to view from your patio? Today, we’re talking about the steps to the perfect summer haven in Georgetown. Start with the Right Questions To begin, you’ll need some vision. How do you see yourself spending the summer? Are the kids having a raucous game of tag while they run through the sprinklers, or are you sitting on the patio enjoying the view of your flowers while you quietly sip some tea? The best way to get somewhere is to start by knowing where you’re going. So let’s talk. What Do You Love About Your Yard? Just because you want some changes doesn’t mean you don’t love your yard. Chances are you picked your home for a reason, and the landscape is likely part of that. So what do you love about your property? Do you have a tree that has always spoken to you? Is the lawn flat and perfect, or is it full of wildflowers? Rather than starting with what it lacks, let’s start with what you love so we can build around that. If your tree is a focal point, we can build around it. And if you don’t like anything, that tells us something too! How Do You Want to Use It Not everyone uses their yards the same way. Some people are all about the recreational use of a lawn - touch football, tag, frisbee, or croquet. Other folks are avid gardeners who want to grow their food to feed their families or flowers to decorate their property. For others, simplicity is the goal. However, how you want to use your landscape may be the most essential factor in your landscape design plans. What Is It Currently Missing? Now comes the million-dollar questions. What does your landscape need to bring it from how it is to where you want it to be? Since we understand what you like and what you want, we’re now better equipped to plan what to add to your yard to turn it into the haven you’re imagining. Begin the Landscape Design After carefully interviewing you and assessing your yard, its features, needs, and potential obstacles, we’ll put together a 3D landscape design that demonstrates our plan to bring it from its current state to its future one. The 3D design is a fantastic tool to help owners accurately visualize how their vision will compare to the reality of their yard. Sometimes, something doesn’t look quite the same on paper as it does in our minds. But now is your chance to make any changes. It’s much easier to make a change on paper before we’ve dug anything up and hauled in a tree or two! Landscape Installation The most fun part of landscaping is bringing your landscape design to life. That’s the process of landscape installation. Now we can install your flower beds, trees, shrubs, and anything else you want. Installation may be the most time-consuming part of the creation process, but if you’ve taken the time to design it, it’s much more likely to go as planned. Landscape installation is a great time to add an irrigation system too. That’s because if you’re already digging, it’s easier to add in something new now than to tear it up again later. You’re also more likely to save money in the irrigation installation process. Landscape Maintenance Once you’ve designed and installed your landscaping, the work isn’t done yet. You still need to maintain your plants, or they won’t stay the way you planned them for very long! Progreen can help make several aspects of landscape maintenance easier. Sprinklers and drip irrigation systems take the guesswork out of watering. In addition, lawn treatments help to give your lawn the nutrients they need and keep away the weeds and pests that they don’t have. Summertime and the Livin is Easy If you want an easy, enjoyable summer on your property, you should start planning in the Spring! Talk to your professional green team at Progreen about your landscape design and installation project now so that by the time you’re having your next barbeque, the landscape will already be established!