Improve Property Values With Water Features in Landscape and Gardening
Would you like to increase your property value by 28% with a feature you'll love and adore as long as you live there? Water gardens are more than appealing yard decor, they can be food producing, container gardens and seating areas, as well as other singular focus garden types, but why? Why would you simply garden for one purpose and one only? Let's consider for a moment that you could set up one amazing garden in your yard to compliment the whole effort you might put in and accomplish many goals with the same effort...
There are a few requirements for a garden, after all, we don't want to totally waste our time here, so your garden must be:
Here are some tips to help your garden fulfill your needs and improve your property values: 1) Have a singular focus strong enough to appeal to a broad audience.
Structurally speaking, your garden should be substantial enough to keep your attention for more than the mili-second required to glance at some pretty flowers.
A garden structure such as a gazebo, arbor, bird sanctuary, combines with a water feature that includes appeal to all of your sensual perceptions would be beneficial to everyone and offer up a visual party no matter when you visit.
2) Provide substantial architectural interest and value for more impact.
Architectural form doesn't have to be a whole structure, and can be as ornate as iron gates, metal topiary forms or concrete statues centered in a well planned and planted garden arrangement.
Artful decor contribute mightily to the overall appeal and aesthetic value of outdoor living spaces and water gardens.
Imagine a water feature with the mast of a sunken ship visible in a pondless cove! 3) Waterfalls, gurgling fountains and babbling brooks increase sensual appeal.
When the splash of water covers the annoying sounds of traffic or adds another sensory perception the appeal of your garden improves with each innovative addition.
Water features that include ponds have the added appeal of water plants and wet terrain habitat including fish and other pets.
Aquatic offerings can include bird baths that magnetically attract our feathered friends.
Be just a little innovative and turn your whole garden into a water garden with special features.
4) Display your collections as landscape art and artifacts surrounded by ornamental gardening.
Some of the most attractive gardens are showplaces for collections.
Add the appeal of water, sounds, smells and the cool refreshing feeling of water or mist to your showcase for appeal to a broader audience.
A clump of birch, or some shapely spruce trees might provide a nice backdrop for your free flowing water fall, or you might prefer a cascade of wisteria or climbing trumpet to enhance your fountains splashing pool.
Try framing ornamental art with shrubs and bright layers of perennial flowers.
5) Showcase your favorite plants in containers and planters you can move around for impact.
To improve the usefulness of your garden, add containers.
Mobile containers that allow you to follow the sun, turn them for maximum impact or to grow vegetables in your garden.
One direction, they're ornamental, on the other side there are veggies growing! Or to divide a 'too big garden space' you can use containers of variable sizes to divide the space.
Occasionally adding a container water feature to your garden increases your enjoyment of a smaller space.
Adding a water feature, garden pond or other elements to your outdoor living space increases the usefulness of the space and increases your joy, but more importantly by using all these viable options, a water feature increases the value of your home.
There are a few requirements for a garden, after all, we don't want to totally waste our time here, so your garden must be:
- attractive to look at and appealing to the design of your home (no cottage gardens in front of your southwest adobe, and no strata cactus in front of your timberline lodgepole pine either)
- ecologically viable in the area where you live (wasting water just for the sake of maintaining an inappropriate garden style isn't cool at all)
- owner and user friendly (you should be able to use your garden occasionally for something other than exercise and physical work and labor)
Here are some tips to help your garden fulfill your needs and improve your property values: 1) Have a singular focus strong enough to appeal to a broad audience.
Structurally speaking, your garden should be substantial enough to keep your attention for more than the mili-second required to glance at some pretty flowers.
A garden structure such as a gazebo, arbor, bird sanctuary, combines with a water feature that includes appeal to all of your sensual perceptions would be beneficial to everyone and offer up a visual party no matter when you visit.
2) Provide substantial architectural interest and value for more impact.
Architectural form doesn't have to be a whole structure, and can be as ornate as iron gates, metal topiary forms or concrete statues centered in a well planned and planted garden arrangement.
Artful decor contribute mightily to the overall appeal and aesthetic value of outdoor living spaces and water gardens.
Imagine a water feature with the mast of a sunken ship visible in a pondless cove! 3) Waterfalls, gurgling fountains and babbling brooks increase sensual appeal.
When the splash of water covers the annoying sounds of traffic or adds another sensory perception the appeal of your garden improves with each innovative addition.
Water features that include ponds have the added appeal of water plants and wet terrain habitat including fish and other pets.
Aquatic offerings can include bird baths that magnetically attract our feathered friends.
Be just a little innovative and turn your whole garden into a water garden with special features.
4) Display your collections as landscape art and artifacts surrounded by ornamental gardening.
Some of the most attractive gardens are showplaces for collections.
Add the appeal of water, sounds, smells and the cool refreshing feeling of water or mist to your showcase for appeal to a broader audience.
A clump of birch, or some shapely spruce trees might provide a nice backdrop for your free flowing water fall, or you might prefer a cascade of wisteria or climbing trumpet to enhance your fountains splashing pool.
Try framing ornamental art with shrubs and bright layers of perennial flowers.
5) Showcase your favorite plants in containers and planters you can move around for impact.
To improve the usefulness of your garden, add containers.
Mobile containers that allow you to follow the sun, turn them for maximum impact or to grow vegetables in your garden.
One direction, they're ornamental, on the other side there are veggies growing! Or to divide a 'too big garden space' you can use containers of variable sizes to divide the space.
Occasionally adding a container water feature to your garden increases your enjoyment of a smaller space.
Adding a water feature, garden pond or other elements to your outdoor living space increases the usefulness of the space and increases your joy, but more importantly by using all these viable options, a water feature increases the value of your home.
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