Creating the perfect outdoor infinite is non something that homeowners accept lightly. Cutting your grass weekly is a practiced start, in addition to incorporating Matt Blashaw’s outdoor lighting tips is also a measurement inwards the correct direction.
But what else tin y'all do? Well, the National Association of Landscape Professionals has released its overstep 2019 landscaping trends. And landscape designer Sara Bendrick, host of DIY’s “I Hate My Yard,” writer of “Big Impact Landscaping: 28 DIY Projects You Can Do on a Budget to Beautify in addition to Add Value to Your Home,” in addition to a STIHL spokesperson, provides insight regarding the NALP’s study – in addition to adds a few of her ain landscaping trends.
Multi-functional designs are beautiful in addition to practical. Image: Werner Muenzker/Shutterstock
Trend #1: Two-in-one landscape design
Gone are the days of an either/or landscape. “Many people postulate hold express space, in addition to thus creating a landscape amongst multi-purpose features tin add together substantial belongings value, inwards add-on to beingness a conversation piece,” Bendrick says. For example, a retaining wall tin also double equally seating, in addition to instead of simply a privacy fence, consider an edible garden on a trellis. “A fun instance is creating a corn hole game on a dorsum deck past times edifice inwards corn hole boards even to the deck amongst hinges. You tin elevator them opened upward to play in addition to set them dorsum downwards when finished,” Bendrick says.
You postulate hold improve things to do than mow your lawn. iMOW Robotic Mower. Image courtesy of STIHL
Trend #2: Automated lawn in addition to landscape maintenance
Spending to a greater extent than fourth dimension outdoors doesn’t necessarily hateful spending to a greater extent than fourth dimension working outdoors. And homeowners are looking for tools to brand lawn tending to a greater extent than convenient. “The latest inwards excogitation includes smart sprinklers in addition to robotic lawn mowers – but I recommend having a servicing dealer to do the initial install,” Bendrick says. “While it is cracking that in addition to thus many landscape jobs are beingness automated, getting your hands muddy inwards the garden volition never become out of style,” she says. However, y'all tin comprise applied scientific discipline piece also feeling connected to your space.
Pergolas are versatile in addition to practical. Image Spiderstock/Getty Images
Trend #3: Pergolas
“Pergolas are e'er on tendency inwards my book. I honey them for many reasons, but primarily because they bring scale, exceptional in addition to shade to a space, making it to a greater extent than interesting in addition to inviting,” Bendrick says. And because they’re in addition to thus versatile, she says to a greater extent than people are seeing the value of adding them inwards their landscapes. “Incorporate amenities to brand them to a greater extent than comfortable for longer, such equally misters, fans, infinite heaters, lighting, adjustable louvers, in addition to pull-down shade screens.”
Add pops of color amongst pink. Image: Peter Turner Photography/Getty Images
Trend #5: Pretty pink
Pops of color add together pizazz to whatsoever landscape. Bendrick admits that pinkish traditionally leans feminine, but thinks colors, inwards general, are beingness seen equally to a greater extent than sex neutral. “I expression to run across pinkish used inwards both masculine in addition to feminine designs,” she says. “A cracking agency to comprise pinkish would live to do a modern landscape amongst all white flowing plants, greenish foliage, charcoal concrete, a steel I-beam H2O characteristic in addition to a pinkish accent wall.” Another tendency is to utilization pinkish roses, hibiscus, petunias, in addition to zinnias inwards blossom beds to add together pops of color.
Stainless steel would expression practiced inwards your backyard. Artisan Fire Pizza Oven. Image courtesy of Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet
Trend #6: Mesmerizing metals
“I honey using raw materials, specifically metallic inwards landscape design. They add together a sense of permanency in addition to strength,” Bendrick says. She recommends using metallic panels for decoration, equally good equally function, such equally a privacy screen. Other trends include using metals inwards slice of furniture in addition to H2O features. “While I am a big fan of metal, it does throttle upward the toll of the landscape equally it’s typically to a greater extent than expensive than forest or plastic alternatives,” she says.
Gardening is fulfilling in addition to provides beauty in addition to nutrition. Image: Irina Fisher/Shutterstock
Other landscaping trends
Bendrick is also noticing other trends in addition to considerations inwards landscape design.
Organic gardening
“People are becoming to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than interested inwards what they are eating, where it came from, in addition to how it was harvested, leading them to to a greater extent than traditional methods of gardening.” Bendrick says.
Going local
“Sourcing local materials in addition to incorporating native plants are trending equally people are trying to live to a greater extent than resourceful in addition to trim down their footprint.”
Landscape updates growth belongings value
Never underestimate the ability of curb appeal. Set the phase for buyers. “It’s slow to imagine yourself relaxing at a domicile amongst a well-maintained landscape, outdoor infinite in addition to a total garden,” Bendrick says. And she recommends creating a landscape that complements the home. Also, don’t simply blueprint for summertime use. For example, fire pits in addition to outdoor fireplaces tin help y'all entertain inwards the autumn in addition to wintertime months.