How to improve this backyard?

by Other-Photograph9443

10 Comments

  1. StopNowThink

    Swimming pool, tennis court, castle, 20-car garage.

  2. thelordmallard

    Native wildflowers, trees, shrubs. A vegetables garden, some fruit trees. And a pond.

  3. rhodyrooted

    I would add, depending on your budget, plantings around the perimeter. There’s no focal point currently so the eye is drawn kind of everywhere! Imo, the best landscaping is really visually interesting, and currently you have pretty much perfect grass but very little complementing it.

  4. ExternalOne4202

    If you mean just the grass, probably an aeration and over seeding.

  5. Fantastic-Manner1342

    Is the property in the background also yours or does your property start at the lawn line?

    Regardless of your answer, the solution is still that you need native trees, grasses and wildflowers.

    If you want to use it more without terraforming (even though I like the pond idea the best), consider a pergola or set up a disc golf course.

  6. Low-Lengthiness-7837

    Three hole golf course with three different sets of tees. So you can play each hole from three different locations for a total of nine holes.

  7. According-Taro4835

    You lay down some mean mower stripes but right now you just have a massive green rug slamming directly into a wall of woods. You are missing the entire middle layer of landscape structure. You need an understory to bridge that gap and give the eye somewhere to rest. Start by pulling that rough natural edge forward into the yard using deep sweeping curves. Plant large continuous masses of native shrubs like viburnum or dogwood along that woodline to soften the transition and eat up some of that giant lawn.

    Whatever you put in the ground needs to be planted in large connected drifts rather than a bunch of single plants scattered around like polka dots. Group a few understory trees out in the yard as a focal point and extend a heavy planting bed around those old sheds to anchor them to the site instead of leaving them floating in the grass. Since ripping up that much healthy turf is a huge physical commitment you should run your photo through the GardenDream web app first. It lets you overlay those sweeping beds and test different plant masses so you have a realistic blueprint before you start stripping sod.

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