When you get sick and tired of staying all day inside the house, don’t drive miles just to see a brand new sight. Just run to your back door and enjoy the beauty of your backyard! That’s if your backyard has that beauty you’ve been imagining about.
Well, for now, you still might have been imagining it, but as you plan on making the perfect backyard, consider the following backyard landscape ideas. Who knows one of them might be what you’ve never known you’d wanted so badly.
Night Lights
Just before dusk falls, set up night lights around your backyard. You can hang them on the trees or put them around the hedges or shrubs. You can use your old Christmas lights if you still have them as long as they’re still functional and safe to use. Using little bulbs with dim yellow lights adds a beautiful, romantic sepia effect to the place. You can place the lights near backyard benches or picnic tables where you and your family can spend quality time together while having a little chat or eating midnight snacks.
Nap destination
Boredom usually strikes in the late afternoon. When the sun goes down, it’s the perfect time to take a nap outside. Get a hammock and go find two parallel trees outside your backyard. Once you find a good spot, tie each end of the hammock around each tree and you’re good to nap. Practice how to tie a hammock knot for a safe and comfortable chilling session. Grab your favorite smooth pillows and a blanket and prepare insect sprays just in case some critters fly around and disturb you in your sleep. Also, make sure you tie the hammock carefully around the trees. You don’t want to literally fall in your sleep, do you?
Perennial Border
Instead of using typical gates or fences, use wide garden beds of tall perennial flowers with outlines of greenery to separate your yard from your neighborhoods’. If you happen to live beside the road, you can also make a beautiful perennial border to create a buffer from the roadside. Aside from beauty, you can also benefit from this, as the pollution from vehicles passing by the road will not go directly to your house. Plants help lessen pollution, making your family safe and healthy.
Fire Pit
Save a spacious camping spot in your backyard for the whole family. A good place for a fire pit spot is anywhere far from the house, just about the edge or corner of your property. This is so the experience will be just like a real camping journey. You know, traveling far and long before reaching a destination. Also choose a spot with the best view of the meadow or the mountain, or the horizon, or the city lights. Also, put plenty of benches around the center of the pit for everyone to relax on while grilling marshmallows on sticks. Don’t forget the blanket and pillows in case it gets cold even with the fire around.
Natural Beauty
If you want the effortless beauty of the scenery in your backyard, go natural. This means trying to let just about everything grow naturally within your fence – from tall grasses to ferns to wildflowers to vines. Avoid all the mowing and shower more often. Do this for weeks, then wait and see how it goes. This saves much time and effort.
Artificial Grass
If you’re the kind of person who’s trying to conserve water, go for artificial grass. Aside from the fact that it helps you conserve water, it’s also less hassle. You don’t have to take care of it because, of course, it doesn’t dry and die. The color and beauty that it gives to your backyard will take a long time, if not never before it fades.
Edible Garden
Put most of the flowers in the front yard and save the backyard for an edible garden! Include plants like peas, lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, garlic, and many more in planning what to grow in your backyard vegetable garden. You can actually plant whatever kind of vegetable or fruit plants you like, but you need to consider the type of soil in your garden as well as space where plants can freely grow, especially the crawling, vine ones.
