Landscape Design & Installation Advice

Container gardening tops the list of ideas for sprucing up Greater Chicago home landscapes.

They make an immediate impact no matter where you place them. You can flank your front door with two elegant urns popping with color and boosting with elegance or you can add fun and style to your back patio, deck, near your pool area, under your pergola or anywhere else you’d like a little pizzazz and punch in your landscape.

Container gardening may look easy since the results are neat, portable gardens. You might think it’s a service you can do throughout the year. However, proper plant selection, placement, and arrangement are essential in creating significant, eye-catching container plantings. And this can certainly be tricky to master.

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Everyone loves color. There’s something about bright blooms that bring a smile to your face and make your landscape that much more enjoyable.

That vibrant visual appeal you see in landscapes you admire at vacation resorts or botanical gardens gives you a warm, welcoming feeling. They create different levels of interest, texture, and vivid hues that you can’t resist.

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Whether you have a small space, a large entryway or a bland retaining wall or patio you’d like to jazz up, container plants, also known as outdoor potted plants, can bring a whole new world of color, texture, and interest to your space.

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You know what they say. Location is a big selling point and value-adding feature of a home.

Second to that is curb appeal. And nothing makes your curb appeal shine more than front entryway landscaping. The American Society of Landscape Architects says great landscaping can boost your home’s value by 5 to 15 percent.

The yard is the first impression people get as they drive by your home or walk up to your front door, so it’s worth the investment.

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Your backyard is an extension of what’s going on inside your home -- whether that’s colorful and playful, casual and fun, elegant and sophisticated, clean and modern, or natural and lived-in. The possibilities, as they say, are pretty endless.

There are so many options that your head might already be spinning. This is supposed to be fun, after all. Don’t worry; we’ve got your back.

How do you incorporate all those stunning suburban Chicago backyard ideas you love and merge them with your own style and in your own unique landscape?

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