RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE TRENDS FOR 2024 | Podcast Edition

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Looking ahead to 2024, here are some current Residential Landscape Trends to consider in planning your DIY Landscaping projects.  And, it’s the perfect time of year to get these down on paper, planned and sourced for this Spring.
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Hey everybody coach here how you doing man I took a week off last week it felt great but it wasn’t like I had just kicked in the clutch I had basically been very very busy here at brooken Pond mainly keeping up with the winter weather yeah we’re talking about uh snow

That accumulated over the week I had to do a lot of clearing had to do some preparation for my vehicles and now I am back hey I want to uh I want to tell you just a little bit I’m going to start doing this and if you

Don’t like it tell me if you don’t like it but I’m going to tell you a little bit of little bit of weather as far as Landscaping capability can you do it and I’m speaking only about myself but here’s what I’d like to offer is I’d

Love to hear from you guys as far as what you have currently when you listen to this what you have currently at your place and are you landscape capable right now whether otherwise so without further Ado hey I’m starting in with an overnight low of five 5° Fahrenheit and

A high today of only 18 maybe 20 but that’s only going to be in the sun I have ground freeze that goes down about 4 Ines now four to 6 inches depending on whether you’re in the shade or in the Sun so my landscape capability yeah I’m going to put it

Right at zero so today we are talking about the most current trends for landscaping in the residential world and what those Trends look like for the 2024 season coming up which is obviously just around the corner so I appreciate you giving me that break last week and I

Am back thanks for joining me let’s get started hey friends Maestro here just dropping a reminder to check out the podcast description for Discount opportunities and any important links also if you’re listening to this podcast on a specific app please don’t forget to rate and review the show it helps us

Grow and continue to provide these free podcasts so let me get this off my chest right out of the gate right at the top of the show here and that is regarding the definition of Trends now Trends are nice you know Trends are ooh and a in

The magazines and in online pictures and stuff those Trends are uh what kind of inspire us what lead us to say what could be out in the yard however however they also lull you into a a sense of that’s what I want but are they really realistic are they realistic for the

Average DIY and even realistic for some professionals not all professionals out there are capable of putting in some dream yards they’re capable of putting in standard yards but when it comes to the fan some pros fall short I knew where my limitations were when I did it I’ll tell

You that I didn’t get into uh pools I didn’t get into super fancy structural builds nothing you I was kind of a the blue collar landscaper I was the one who was not the cheapest and certainly not the most expensive and I catered to a niche market that could afford a

Professional but not the off the top I can remember a landscape job that was north of the town I was in and this this family had money and I mean hundreds of millions of dollars and they contracted to a friend of mine to come out and Landscape five acres five acres and it

Was actually featured on a landscape uh magazine it took my friend three years to complete that and it had everything from scaled down take the grandkids on a locomotive train through the property it had swimming ponds it had huge waterfalls it went on and on and on and they spent close to $35

Million on this landscape quite a quite a uh dreamy lofty goal and if you can afford it you can find the right person to do it but boom do it but is the honest answer this realistic goal fall under the DIY umbrella the honest answer is sure maybe

Yes and for some no based on a few factors based on a few factors at your disposal and let me go over them there’s about five number one is time do you have the time you know if you’re a a single gal or a single girl a single guy and you have

Money you have a good job maybe you have a schedule that allows for you uh like if you’re self-employed or uh you have lots of days off during the month or you’re very seasonal and you can throw yourself into a multi-week multi-month project then you have the time most

Folks nowadays there’s at least one of us in a family working full-time if not both you got kids you got pets and you got stuff to do all the time and sometimes time is the biggest culprit of turning people off and away from landscape improvements number two is the

Cost have you been saving have you been setting aside you know a a resource jar so that when this time comes about and you’ve done all that I might suggest in that 15 step DIY process that I have on the website are you ready to absorb the

Cost and there’s lots of ways you can do it you can you can go get onto one of these trendy these trendy landscape ideas and take out a second morgage if you can afford it and throw it in do a good job and you’ll have a wonderful a

Wonderful new landscape a lot of us we’re kind of at the mercy of that mortgage and we really don’t want to afford any more debt especially the way the world is right now so cost can sometimes be prohibitive and how about the complexity of your landscape dream complexity really kind

Of it hinders us because we want it we think we can do it until we get in the middle of it I had so many calls over the years where people have leaped off the deep end of the pool landscape wise and then my phone rang and said can you

Come help us out the other thing is availability I mean for the last 3 years a lot of resources materials and that kind of stuff have been kind of on the scrimp side and what was available was astronomically off the charts expensive so availability might affect when you

Can actually do it and finally what is your skill set is your skill set capable of taking on something like this if you do have the time if you do have the money and you know that things are available and the complexity does not scare you do you have the skill set on

Which to do it so Trends will also be somewhat geographically dependent as well kind of hard to do a southwest desert theme up here in Maine where I’m at mostly but yeah I mean it’s really kind of hard to do a desert landscape up here conversely doing something up here

Down in Florida you know so it’s kind of where you’re at and what are you really wanting to put in and will it work where you’re at okay now that I got that out of my way but here are some trends that are being sought after by consumers either

Diyers or those seeking professionals to complete and they’re yeah pop top five top six or so and the big big Trend right now everywhere seems to be native Native Landscapes use what naturally grows around your area native Landscapes can be a great way to mirror the local surroundings and really blend kind of

Blend your landscape into uh what Mother Nature has intended to grow in that area however if you’re on a 60 by 100t lot in a suburbian neighborhood chances are you you’re going to end up being to a certain extent and depending on what the final product is you’re going to be that house

Because I mean let’s face it if you took natives from Florida natives from the Midwest natives from the northwest or here in the Northeast and try to make him really work in your little Suburban neighborhood sometimes it just doesn’t look that natural oh they may thrive

They may do well but you know it’s just not going to look as if you went out into the forest or out into the Prairie or out into the swampies and you said gosh my yard didn’t turn out like that so be careful when you go native be

Careful and do some due diligence I really suggest hard strongly most native plants no matter where they’re coming from Sprout grow and have one thing in mind at all times their whole purpose in existence is procreation and reproduction it really is they have to continue their species so they sometimes

Do a lot of good flowering sometimes they do some spreading sometimes they do some seed dispersal that isn’t always always a desired trait in a small residential yard now if you’re out in the country you’re on a couple acres or larger and okay all right knock yourself

Out you know you can you can find native seeds and native plants online like I was perusing Marketplace this morning Facebook Marketplace and oh my gosh there’s lots of people out there selling all kinds of things and so you can you can find what you need it’s just a

Matter of be prepared for any sort of side effects of the plants that you do use so the scientist out there called plant hybridus came about decades and decades and decades ago to take some natives to take some wild plants and hybridize them into a carefully formulated breed of the

Same plant without all the negative side effects one of the positives you really get from native Landscapes most of the time is you do tend to have a little less maintenance and I say that with a really a lot of reservation because sometimes you have to do a lot of deadheading you

Don’t want everything to go to seed Etc so native Landscapes hey cool try them out see what you think but I would try it any corner of your yard to start with not the whole thing and see how it goes and if it goes well then hey make a make a

Full landscape makeover and and go native with whatever you feel like using okay let’s move on number two something that is uh often called kitchen Gardens kitchen Landscapes edible Gardens edible Landscapes with inflation being a runaway freight train right through our wallets lately I mean

The price of gas and food and some of the most expensive stuff in a grocery store is produce now many folks have changed parts of their landscape if not a lot of their landscape and converted them into food production and they have woven it either the with the help of professionals or by

Themselves they’ve woven it into the landscape so they have a uh theme shall we say of Edibles and generally I’ve always kind of described an edible landscape as something that you have at least 60% of the landscape at one time of the year or another is edible whether

It is bearing fruit uh bearing root crop bearing Leaf crop whatever it might be somewhere somehow in some place people can go out and harvest and people use a lot of different things they use a lot of different herbs U semid dwarf and dwarf Citrus and fruit trees yes it’s

There are those people who still have a traditional veggie veggie garden out in the corner somewhere or a container veggie garden but I’m talking about weaving it into the landscape and using plants and vegetables that have bold dramatic look I can remember when I first started my landscape design career

Way back in the don’t laugh now late 1970s you know one of the most popular landscape plants that we used to design into yards was artichoke yeah seriously artichokes those bold gray leaves especially the new growth where it was just a almost a silver powdercoated silver leaf was

Often used as backdrop plants and in the San Francisco Bay Area it was a great great area for artichokes it was really close and in very uh similar proximity to the Monteray Coast Area where artichokes are a lot of them are grown by the hundreds and hundreds of Acres so

Yeah there was just an example but nowadays people are gravitating away from the traditional Bluegrass Lawns and mulberry shade tree and whatever and now we’re finding genetic dwarf fruit trees semidwarf fruit trees berries on trellises leafy greens and root crops all being weaved into existing areas that means of supplying fresh crop and

Fresh produce right from your yard and right into your kitchen and it is becoming a tsunami of popularity it really is okay let’s move on to number three three here’s a themee that is based solely around and I don’t think this will ever go away as far as a trend

But uh it’s the Privacy theme you know with a lot of uh yards getting smaller houses getting bigger and still the popular two-story home mixed in with the developers one-story affordability home mixed into developments you’re always going to have those homes that have privacy issues and the Privacy trend is

Is something that uh gets creative with a combination of fencing screening and greencape it really is so most of the the trending type of privacy is horizontal screening around patios and around decking and stuff like that fence line plantings with Arbor vites the narrow arbores many junipers stuff like

That they get they get tall enough although sometimes if you have a one-story home with the backyard and like a design that I had to do many years ago you were surrounded surrounded on three different sides with two-story homes it’s going to be very very hard to

Get a completed privacy when it comes to that your privacy is going to be based on years down the road when things have grown up hopefully that’s why out West where I practiced Italian Cyprus was so popular because it was fast growing and it got tall enough to even screen

Two-story homes out from other homes I don’t suggest Italian Cypress it’s got its issues but what I did do and what I have seen now and it’s still a trend now and into the future and that is more like privatizing your outdoor living area not necess necessarily all of your

Fence line unless you’re a very patient person but to privatize your patio area the views into your private areas of your home uh using screening using greencape Etc so your bedroom windows your bathroom Windows your patios your barbecue area Etc you don’t have to have the nosy neighbor up in the in the

Bedroom window looking at you with binoculars or something the downside to this style of landscape is time time is uh for the Greenscape anyway to grow now I did a job many years ago where a similar situation like this happened a guy a local business owner where I

Worked wanted to screen off the neighbor who moved in who seemed to always want to you know peek through the fence and Etc so he ordered up some big emerald arbores in Balden burlap out of Oregon and had them shipped down and we’re talking arbites that were already 12T

Tall and I had to plant them along a fence line and when they got in and they got established it was insta privacy the house next to my client was a one-story the only thing separated him was a six foot fence now he had minus the root

Ball now he had easily 10 feet of privacy screen and I had to put him about 4 feet on Center so they were almost touching when I put him in the ground so something to think about the privacy Trend will always be there there it just will it’s not something that’s

Ever going away anytime soon okay number four this one is a this one is user dependent shall we say user dependent it is the time intested low maintenance Trend in the landscape this definition means many things to many people but with families seemingly always having their tachometer

In the red zone uh because life and jobs and the world and everything is so fastpaced the landscape tends to uh sometimes fall off our top three priority list but these particular Landscapes um done correctly allow for some forgiveness of the homeowner and when I say that is ay if you missed a

Week okay no big deal you know come out and rake the leaves next week or pull a weed or two next month or whatever uh it’s not like having a a large expanse of lawn that needs mowing during the growing season every week and mostly I would say that the trend of low

Maintenance always lends itself to Lawless Landscapes let’s face it the the lawn itself the element of turf requires more water more food more maintenance and more time of a homeowner than any other part of the landscape period so by converting it into a lawless landscape and using things more along the lines of

Ground cover small dwarf shrubberies Hardscape surfaces that maybe are a little more expansive drip irrigations maybe some lighting and that is it really curbs that weekly maintenance and kind of lends itself to more like quarterly tidying up if you get my meaning for me ay even here at brooken

Pond next year when I finally knock on wood am able to break ground we will have a lawless landscape the lawn that is out here will probably be going bye-by at least well over half of it because it’s just useless it’s a useless huge useless space of 12,000 square feet

My gosh that’s a that’s twice as much as some City residential lots and it’s in grass and when we first first moved in back in October hey I was out there every week mowing so yeah I’m not going back to that kind any anymore so with the low maintenance landscape shrub

Shrub bries and stuff are complemented with usually smaller trees and ground covers and then mulches and gravels and other things tend to cover the ground surface and if you do it right man it was my bread and butter for many many years Lawless landscape and converted it from a water thirst

I can remember going from one of my clients in G California she went from a $300 a month water bill and by the time we got things installed somewhat established so we’re talking about 3 months after installation her water bill went from $300 a month to70 all of that was landscape Factor

What was put in the ground and we used a combination of gravel ground cover Fabrics containers some stuff in the ground but not all of it some existing somewhere removed and everything was converted to drip and it worked out really well she was very very happy with

That um you know if you figure you’re saving $230 a month hey add that up and you get quite a return on your investment that’s for sure okay let’s move on to number five number five is a trend that will be around yeah I’ll use Brook and pawn as an example think about

The title that we put to this place it is the element of water in the landscape I can remember coming here with my agent and I had no idea except for the look of the house what what we were going to see and we turned off the county road and

Onto the property and the first thing we did is we passed over a perennial Brook flowing in the middle of the summer late summer first of August and it was still cranking and I just went oh my God this is going to be the place and we drove up

The driveway and we saw the house it looked basically like the pictures and then I saw the pond and the pond had a brook that came into it and a brook that flowed on the outflow of the earth and Dam and I had a second sound of water

Then the look of the pond itself although I did spend the first three weeks just beating the hell out of the perimeter of the pond because it was it was neglected and overgrown uh but hey this year resources allowing be able to put a nice deck out there put a bug room

Because Maine does tend to get bugs in the early summertime and be able to enjoy the pond out there as well so water elements and the trend of using water flowing water spilling water whatever it might be is a a trend that is just Timeless you know water elements

In the landscape still remain a very popular trending theme to a sliding scale if you look online go to aquascape’s website Atlantis Gardens tussy Landscaping these guys are really really off the hook experts in installing water themes of all various sizes now for me when I was doing it I

Remember my niche market dictated to me that the water features were always going to be smaller in scale small pond water features self-contained Basin enclosed water features and this fit the budgets of the clients that I did but very very popular and very very DIY friendly a little bit

Of knowledge a little bit uh a weekend of online searching and online watching you could put these things in no problem whatsoever and so people concentrate on the placement uh for me as a design it was always you were going to have the sound of water where you wanted it most

Whether that be falling asleep outside the master bedroom seeing it from the family room hearing it and seeing it when people including the owners came to their front door areas these were the placement was very very important and the cost yeah there there’s a there’s an additional cost there you got to get

Electricity to them you know or at least nearby and then take care of them a little bit I’ll tell you one thing at weed patch ranch when myo and I sold we had the nice pondless waterfall in the backyard and we had the stack slate N

Out in the front yard and you want to talk about a wildlife magnet holy crap there was Birds there was frogs there was toads there was uh lizards there were Birds there were kotes there were raccoons there were skunks there were ground squirrels we were especially in

In the Heat of the summer the standing source of water for a lot of wildlife within a reasonable area and I can remember coming outside and finding two coyotes you know asleep on my front lawn out there underneath an olive tree uh with the water feature just a few feet

Away so it was really kind of neat uh lots of lots of pictures lots of satisfaction with having a water feature in my landscape and you can too it’s not that that hard I would say for a stacked slate ear uh with a 45 in Basin and a pump

With a little bit of electric available to you you can have that thing in as a rookie you can have that thing in less than a day for me it generally took about eh depending on how hard it was to dig less than four hours so water features

Are definitely going to be a part and there’s so many sizes and styles your imagination and your checkbook are the only limitations so check them out number six is going to be uh lovingly referred to as Escape pods Escape pods are a new and very popular Trend in

Landscaping and yet it is more of a Hardscape feature than a greencape feature oftentimes they’re referred to as man caves or sheeds incorporating these dwellings shall we say incorporating these sheds I like to call them Retreats are very very popular it’s kind of almost like a Star

Trek theme you know be me out Scotty get me out of the house away from the kids away from the phone away from computers blah blah blah and be able to go off into your retreat your Escape pod where you can go in and do watch listen create

Whatever it is uh out in these spaces I’ve seen them as woodworking I’ve seen them as artist Studios uh I have seen them as multi- television game day cold beer kager party palaces whatever this day and age are not just for yard tools anymore they are sheds that provide a

Retreat and a de-stressor shall we say with various degrees of completion based on your budget again I mean you can go down to Box Store buy yourself a a dinky one and have it delivered and placed in your yard and then you can do whatever

You want to it you don’t even have to build the dang thing you can have it placed right in your yard the only thing you got to be worried about is obviously the size based on your available space what is going to get sacrificed if you’re taking something out and of

Course if you’re in the everloving realm of HOA rules ick you may have to uh appeal to the board let’s hope you’re not in that situation again I have seen the Taj mAh all virgins online and I’ve seen people spending you know God knows how much you

$50,000 to create these things now some people are they are literally part of their home-based business it is their office it is their uh livelihood where they go to they have a huge commute from their kitchen door out back right to their office in the backyard and that’s

Where they conduct their work and I think that’s very very uh smart don’t bother Dad and Mom while they’re working unless you absolutely have to and it’s an easy way to uh create surroundings around you that are very personable rather than going to a Sticks and Bricks

Office all the time all right our last one the everpresent drought tolerant landscape uh this is such a a catchall in this day and age basically hey sanss the lawn and select some useful low maintenance Alternatives like I mentioned in the low maintenance part drip irrigate the thing and boom drought

Tolerance is achieved don’t overthink it now do you want to kick it up a notch or two or 10 okay then try if you if you’re in an area of the country or world where droughts do come and go and you cannot predict them I strongly suggest that by

Adding a rain capturing system if you’re allowed to do if if the government allows you to capture water out of the sky there are some municipalities and states where this is not legal screw you guys you know it’s water coming out of the sky and I can either

Use water coming out of the tap to water my landscape or I can capture it and use it during the times of drought where I can still have a Green Landscape still have veggies and fruit trees and whatever and then you go one more level and create a solar system that can

Actually power a 12volt pump and Automation and now you’ve kind of been an off-grid landscape you really are are with very very drought tolerant plants even veggies that require only a drip system man not only are you drought tolerant but the low maintenance has dropped tremendously and your water bill

Is much lower as well but check yourself before you wreck yourself here all of these Trends all sounds good right based on those items I mentioned in the beginning you must apply to these Trends in order to pull them off and have them look good not just for the birthday

Party next Saturday this is good for the long haul this is an investment in the real estate that you have bought and you’re making monthly payments on so think it out if you don’t have a lot of landscape skills please bounce over to the the website yyard coach.com and

Check out the book and check out the digital course check out the checklist I mean it can really go a long ways to bouncing your educational level up quite a few notches and give you an idea of what it actually takes to take on a project be realistic but remain positive

And know that it can all of these can be done DIY learn grow and execute and when you are ready tackle it and enjoy the journey through it yeah there’s going to be some hard Parts yeah there’s going to be some times where you’re why in the

Sam Hell did I take this on but hey you got a coach you can always fall back on you can always email me I can get you through it one way or another you know both up on your inner landscaper this winter just remember that education and knowledge is power and that empowerment

Can go a long ways to actually seriously considering you being able to do it and a landscape bill at the end of the project that’s probably 50% less than if you went out and hired so check it out hey as always I really appreciate any support you do over on the website as

Always to your landscape success and I’ll catch you guys next Friday really appreciate your time I know this is coming in uh December of 2023 so I always say happy holidays hope everything’s going well bye for now guys hey friends Maestro here just dropping a reminder to check out the

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