Unimpressed with Your Novi or Northville, MI Plantings? Now is the Time to Plan for Spring Beauty
Envisioning the way you want your Novi or Northville, MI outdoor spaces to look might be easy but achieving that aesthetic can be confusing and often hard. The good news is that a landscape professional will design a plan of plantings, trees, and other natural beauty to enhance each area of your property. Working on this now means that when spring returns, you can enjoy lush, perfectly curated outdoor spaces.
Plantings for Beauty
Consider choosing native plantings for your landscape beds as they thrive in the climate, soil, and topography of the area, delivering consistently stunning beauty with low maintenance requirements. When choosing plantings for your landscape, the pros consider the amount of sunlight and water your plants will need, especially when choosing plants that are native to your area. Native plants are more likely to thrive in your outdoor spaces, attracting beneficial insects and wildlife for a riot of colorful perennial plantings that can be accented with annual planting selections.
An exceptional choice includes asters that come in a variety of colors, bloom in the fall, and are a great source of food for pollinators, adding a touch of color to your landscape late in the season. Another reliable perennial is Black-eyed Susans which are easy to grow and a popular choice for butterfly gardens, providing cheerful flower blooms of yellow petals with a dark brown center from mid-summer to fall.
Plantings for Privacy
Some plantings are for added privacy through living screens of evergreens and other varieties that grow quickly and fill in to block views of your yard and outdoor living spaces.
Trees for privacy: A tree line is a great way to add privacy and screening to a large area, with some of the most popular tree line choices including arborvitae, spruce, and pine. A variety of trees growing to different heights to creates a layered effect.
Hedges for privacy: Hedges are a classic way to add privacy and screening to your landscape, especially when the choices are well-suited to the climate and soil. Some popular hedge plants include boxwood, holly, and yew.
Trellises and fences: Trellises and fences can be used to support perennial vines and other blooming perennials that can be used to create a living screen. A trellis or fence that is the appropriate height and width for your space and privacy needs can be enhanced with varieties that include ivy, honeysuckle, and clematis.
Plantings for Consistency
Plantings are selected based not only on their visual properties (color, shape, and texture) in order to best complement the setting, but also on the time of year in which they will be in full bloom and the soil in which they are most likely to thrive. A flowing, well-planned planting plan is essential for a landscape that provides natural beauty throughout the seasons, staggering certain varieties to ensure year-round color in your planting beds.
A trick of the trade that the pros use effectively is to echo the same or similar planting beds from front to back, creating a seamless appearance to the design aesthetic. Introduce height with trees that form broad, leafy canopies and flowering shrubs for a variety of purposes, including visual structure and attractive blooms.
About the Author
At Premier Landscaping, we create beautiful spaces for our clients to create memories and relax in Plymouth, Michigan and the surrounding areas. We help you live the good life - outside. We design and construct your fully landscaped dream yard with: retaining walls, paver patios, pathways, outdoor kitchens, water and fire features, pergolas, gazebos and lighting. So, grab your favorite beverage, fire up the grill and let’s start making your dream yard a reality.
