Businesses and residential properties share one major thing in common: they both want great looking landscaping. If almost everyone wants their yard to look excellent, what is it that makes some landscapes look less than impressive? There are numerous mistakes that can be made when planning for landscaping, including not planning at all.

In order to achieve the best looking landscaping on the block, here are 7 of the biggest landscaping fails you should avoid.

1. Not Starting With A Solid Plan

If you’re the type that likes to do things as you go along, landscaping might not be the best task to utilize this mentality. Just like any building, you need a solid foundation (soil) in order to start a successful garden. But soil is not the only thing to plan for. A lot of thought goes into great landscaping, such as picking out appropriate plants for your region, and ensuring adequate water sources to all greenery.

Without a plan you could end up with flowers in places they won’t thrive, or a row of bushes without access to a water supply. Over all, unplanned landscaping tends to show as it looks rather disheveled and unorganized.

Draw out your landscaping plans, and double check everything will work according to this plan before you ever start digging up soil and planting new trees. In the end a little extra time planning will truly pay off, on the other hand poorly planned landscaping will make you pay up.

2. Forgetting To Think About The View From Inside 

This is one of the easiest mistakes to make, after all when planning for landscaping your head is outdoors, not indoors. Yet, those inside a building, house, or business, will be looking out through the windows everyday, will they like what they see? Does your overall design plan match well with the indoor décor so that the landscaping outside doesn’t look entirely different, and perhaps misplaced? Take the time to check out the view from inside looking out and see if your plans are going to offer a great view from both outside and in.

3. Ignoring Plans For Maintenance

Landscaping may look incredible when it is first completed, but without regular maintenance it will turn into an overgrown, brown mess.

During the planning process, take into consideration your budget for maintaining landscape

4. Plants In All The Wrong Places

Plants are gorgeous but you must be careful where you place certain types of plants. Vines can penetrate structures, and some vines are capable of grasping onto the smallest holes and pores in a structure and wedging inside. The pressure of overgrown vines can lift an entire roof.

5. Using Too Much Landscape Fabric 

It is very common to use landscape fabric, but there are many complaints about the stuff one should consider before using it all over the yard. In some cases landscape fabric is necessary and serves its purpose well, but in other cases it can cause a world of issues for your landscaping. The main drawbacks to landscape fabric include:

• Landscaping fabric is unnatural and unattractive, and all it really takes is one good gust of wind to blow away the mulch covering it.

6. Forgetting That Plants Grow

Trees, shrubs and vines might look great when they are first planted but you have to keep in mind that plants are continually growing. Your landscape is going to look much more barren at first as opposed to a year or so down the line.

Make sure to find out just how much different plants are expected to grow in order to place them in sufficient locations where they will look great now, and as they grow. Plants that are near the edge of your property require extra special considerations, are they going to grow over into a neighboring property? Be a good neighbor and keep this in mind before landscaping.

7. Purchasing Cheap, Poorly Made Landscaping Materials

The flowers, grass, water features, hardscape, vegetable garden make a garden pop, but that’s not the only important component of your landscaping. If the planters, trees, water features, fire pits, flowers, plants, and all  other accents that make your beautiful landscaping  space are not good quality, well balanced or healthy, Your space wont show its value. 

The odd thing is, many products made and sold for outdoor landscaping are not actually up to the challenge. Researching the quality and durability of planters, benches, reputable companies and other man-made accessories is fundamental. Products provides the most durable, rust-resistant resin planters, lighting fixtures, furniture and more. Our products are guaranteed t