If you are responsible for any piece of land, you are landscaping, whether you realize it or not. Even if you’re just mowing your lawn and not doing anything else, that’s a choice. Once you realize that you’ve made a choice, you can start to consider your landscaping options more seriously.

Plants

Plantings make an impact, not only on visuals, but also on your budget. A lawn is fine and dandy, but they can be unrelenting. Even golf courses have trees and other plants. Thoughtful planting choices can make your landscape management requirements easier, as well as providing color and interest.

Water

An often overlooked part of landscaping is water. A pool in your backyard, a small goldfish pond in your garden, or a large lake out front of your business can have a huge impact. Whether it’s a purely aesthetic water feature or a more functional one, you ought to be thoughtful in choosing and placing it. A water feature can really make or break your landscaping scheme, and lake management will doubtless play a part in that.

Maintenance

In fact, no matter what landscaping style you choose, management will be the key to its success. Landscaping isn’t like choosing paint or decorating your house. It isn’t static and unchanging. Plants grow and bloom and die back over the course of the year. Water features freeze over and then thaw out. Proper maintenance is key to keeping your landscaping fresh and lovely.

Landscaping is not Optional

Landscaping is key to presentation when it comes to your business or residence. The important thing to remember is to be deliberate and thoughtful. If you aren’t, it will show. You can’t hide the fact that you’ve defaulted to a bland lawn or carelessly placed a water feature in an inconvenient or unattractive location. There’s no way to hide a landscaping error, but they can always be undone.