Arrive just after opening and you’ll find local landscapers loading up their trucks at local garden supply centers and nurseries. Their expertise is in planting, installing and maintenance. Like you, they need the knowledge and good materials they find there to create wonderful yards and gardens for their clients. Browse for what you need, too. Often, the trees, shrubs and supplies that won’t fit in your car can be delivered for a nominal fee.
Book Selections
The first place to start when visiting your local nursery or garden center is their book selection on landscaping. Local nurseries and garden centers usually carry helpful manuals on virtually everything you need to know about landscaping – and most of them were written by professional landscapers, many from your area. These books can give you a jump start as a DIY landscaper. Buy them, read them and get some good fresh ideas.
Garden Supplies
Even before your mind is clear on what you want to do with your next landscaping project, these megastores will provide you with all the tools the professional landscapers use to realize your ideas. You can find garden supplies of every sort, from fertilizer to pots, from lawn mowers to edgers to help you keep your lawn green and well polished.
Landscape Lighting
You’ll also find help to choose your landscape lighting supplies, ranging from automated switches and dimmers to solar lighting. Many a summer’s evening is enhanced by enjoying a softly lit backyard. Seasoned landscapers rely on landscape lighting to reveal the unique quality of the yard.
Water Features
Genly falling or trickling water masks road and neighborhood noises bringing tranquillity to the home garden. Supplies, plants and advice about setting up fountains, ponds and other water features can be had in limited supply at a general garden center. It may take a trip with your landscaper to a specialty nursery to locate those special koi and water lillies you’ve admired.
Ornaments
Use of art objects and weather-proof furnishings have been made popular recently by home gardening programs. Statues, sundials, windchimes, sculpture and wall hung art have found their way into backyard landscaping, creating marvelous get-aways reminescient of Europe. Experienced landscapers have no trouble placing gazebos, benches, picnic tables and lounging furniture, creating inviting spaces of what used to be a blank expanse of lawn.
Trees and Plants
Like the landscapers, you can also consult with the staff about fertilizers, soil and plant selection. Their local expertise will help you find native and naturalized trees, shrubs and ground covers for your home.
References
At a local nursery or garden center you may find a connection to reputable landscaping services. Some even have landscapers on staff. In addition, they often have business cards and fliers available advertising the services of local landscaping businesses.
Bricks and Stonework
The local nursery or garden center can also help you select the right brick, rocks, and concrete items to create small walking areas, patios, or to fill the edges of your lawn with accenting rocks. Both professional landscapers and you can find advice for choosing and installing this stonework with advice from your local nursery or garden center.
