How to Give Your Garden an Extra Spark | Top Landscaping Trends

We’ve all driven by our neighbor’s pristinely manicured lawn with the perfected landscape and grasped at what we should do with our own yard. Look no further for your guide to the top landscaping trends for this season. From the grass, flowers, structures and more, we have provided a list to help you make your landscape and garden the envy of all your neighbors.

Colored Structures
First things first: color! Adding lots of color to your yard and garden can make for a very attractive landscape. This can be achieved by painting fences, arbors or even your house. The color of the structure will allow the plants and yard to project extra colors for those walking by. When these colors are added, it provides a pristine, visual effect that is pleasing to the eye.

Seasonal Gardens
Let’s be honest, we’d like our yards to look attractive year round as much as possible. As time has gone on, the typical gardening season was spring through late summer, but it is often seen now that people are tending to their gardens and keeping them up in the fall months. Rusty colors in the fall including grasses that flower late season and the intricate patterns of branching on bare plants and shrubs are becoming much more appreciated. In the spring and summer months, monochromatic gardens are trending; keeping it simple and allowing the elegance to shine through.

Outdoor Recreational Spaces
From early spring to late fall, especially in the Midwest, we all crave time in the warm air and bright sunshine. Creating the best outdoor experience is ideal which includes the ultimate entertainment space for the grill, a fire pit and ultimately relaxation. Creating a social space outdoors is what we can do for you at Pondering Gardens. The design of these spaces is becoming more and more involved, allowing you and your friends to enjoy all the amenities that are indoors, outdoors too! Cooking areas and recreational areas are being separated by special landscaping designs. Custom fire pits all the way down to placement and materials are on the rise for most wanted by customers.

Sustainable and Manageable Landscaping
More and more people are looking for landscaping and gardening that is sustainable. Landscaping areas created should not only manageable by the owner, but also aesthetically pleasing. The trend these days is to see highly functioning landscapes responding to the topography and architecture with appropriate plant choices that appeal and are relative to the scale of the garden. Gardens will be appreciated in the details of a simple stone wall, or interesting edging, or delicate branching patterns in the landscape throughout all seasons.

We hope we sparked some new, creative ideas with these garden/landscaping trends. Now you are ready to take on some projects on with the help of a trusted landscaper like Ponder No Longer. Please don’t hesitate to pick up the phone today and give us a call. We would love to work with you to make your outdoor living experience beautiful, enjoyable and most of all, what you’ve longed for.