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THE PROS DESIGN & BUILD GROUP Landscaping Design Tips and Ideas for You!
Creating a tropical landscape is a rewarding and creative task, but finding and purchasing your ideal landscaping products and tropical decorations is only half the battle in creating the ultimate tropical paradise in your home and garden. The other half is the actual landscaping work. There are so many different landscaping ideas and methods you can use with colorful plants, bamboo fences, a tiki bar, umbrellas, tiki statues, and any other bamboo and tropical-themed products. Read on to learn about some cool landscaping tips and ideas for your home and garden that will help you with your planning.
Benefits of landscape design
Landscaping your home and garden is not only beautiful and aesthetically pleasing but also adds joy and value to your home. Landscaping has proven to be one of the best ways to financially enhance your home. Additionally, depending on the particular landscaping project and the amount of ongoing maintenance and care, landscaping can even increase in value over time.
Landscaping tips and ideas
Plan before you buy. This may sound difficult, but it is an important step in landscape design. Just sketch your ideal landscape design on paper before you start buying, planting, and building your new garden. This allows you to make smart purchases knowing exactly what materials you will need and where you will be storing them. Planning your landscaping project can save you time, money, and unnecessary frustration.
build borders. Walls and fences are generally a necessity for every home and garden. But you don’t want boring old fences or cinder block barriers. Instead, you can create a beautiful landscape and tropical paradise by using bamboo poles and bamboo fences. In addition, you can use various plants, shrubs, and trees as barriers.
Add waterworks. A beautiful water feature not only adds a pleasant ambiance with the sound of rippling water, but water features are extremely pleasing to the eye, can add value to your home, and are elegant. You can add a beautiful waterfall, fountain or small pond to your tropical decor. If you choose a pond, you can even buy colorful fish to brighten up your water feature. Just make sure to keep any water element you add to your landscape.
Color is your friend
Adding color to your landscape will do wonders. And it’s surprisingly very inexpensive. In fact, for as little as $1.00 per plant, you can cover your garden with petunias, daisies, and other small annuals that will bloom throughout the growing season. Color is a very defining feature in tropical landscapes. Attractive colors will certainly accentuate the tropical theme in your home and garden.
Foliage is fun. Interesting, eye-catching, and distinctive foliage can add variety and appeal to your garden. You can replace plants that aren’t blooming, replace flowers that are difficult to care for, or simply add foliage to your current landscape.
Keep your weed nourished. Healthy, green, lush grass is always an easy and popular idea for any landscape. To achieve optimal nutrition, you can do regular fertilizing treatments and follow a watering schedule. You can also keep that unwanted crabgrass and pesky weeds out of your lawn by adding a weed killer to your fertilizer regimen.
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Decorate your landscape with outdoor solar lighting
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “outdoor solar landscape lighting”? Some people think that solar lights are some kind of pole light, floodlight, street light, or garage door light. While it is true that solar lights include these types of lights, there are actually many more. Recent advances in solar technology have greatly expanded the types of outdoor lighting products currently available on the market.
Solar lighting is energy-efficient and cost-effective
This makes it a perfect alternative to a 120-volt system that needs to be installed by an electrician or lighting technician. Solar lights do not require external cables and transformers as they are powered by the sun’s energy.
The sun’s rays are collected by small solar panels attached to the lights, which are converted into electricity and stored in batteries to power the lights at night. It is a self-generating power supply that allows the luminaires to be used in many areas where it would otherwise be too expensive or impractical.
Installing solar-powered lights is a great do-it-yourself (DIY) project for homeowners looking to reduce energy bills and save some money. Installation is simple and straightforward. A small project with a few lights could be up and running in an hour or two. If this type of project sounds interesting to you, here are some great solar lighting ideas that you can easily make yourself that will bring your outdoor spaces to brilliant life at night.
Solar Stake Lights
Pole lights are a very good choice for larger areas that need good illumination but need a little less than the brilliance provided by floodlights. Post lights work well in driveways, patios, porches, decks, and front and back yards. They come in a wide range of decorative styles and colors, making finding one to match the design of your home a breeze. Whatever style you’re looking for, whether modern, vintage or somewhere in between, solar floor lights are sure to add a stylish flair to your home
Solar Post Cap Lights
Solar post cap lights are decorative and functional lights used to cap posts on decorative fences, walls and front gates. A post cap light becomes an attractive extension of the wall and gate, enhancing rather than detracting from the existing design.
Solar Deck Lights
Decks are great places for parties, BBQs, and other outdoor activities, but when it gets dark you need to turn on the lights to continue the fun and improve safety for you and your guests. Most decks are raised a few feet off the ground so lighting the deck for nighttime use is a breeze for safety. Installing deck lights along the deck stair steps is also a great way to add ambient lighting to the area.
Solar Porch Lights
A porch light provides illumination for those times when guests are visiting and adds a distinctive decorative touch to your home. For example, installing a custom porch light next to your front door is an inexpensive yet effective way to differentiate and customize the entryway.
A porch light also comes with some safety benefits. If someone rings your doorbell at night when it’s dark, you can turn on the porch light and see who’s there through the peephole. In addition to improving night-time visibility, the porch light can also act as a deterrent to a prankster or thief who is up to no good and hopes no one will respond.
Solar Fairy Lights
For temporary lighting purposes, festive occasions, parties, apartment renters and landlords, solar fairy lights are a great option. They are a temporary lighting arrangement that will add lots of charm and warmth to any patio, patio, porch, or balcony. Solar string lights come in many different colors including red, pink, blue, green, clear and assorted colors.
Floating Solar Lights
Floating solar lights are not only used for swimming pool accents. They can be placed in virtually any water feature deep enough to accommodate the size and weight of the lights, such as. B. Ponds, fountains and birdbaths. Use them as a centerpiece for your party table or outdoor buffet. Fill an attractive bowl or vase with water and add the floating lights. Customize your event’s color scheme by adding a few drops of food coloring to the water. This is an inexpensive yet effective way to add a touch of ambient light to your festive event.
Solar Step Lights
For nighttime security and decorative appeal, add solar step lights to your deck or outdoor staircase. This low-level lighting is less intrusive than floodlights or pole lights, yet provides enough light for people to find their feet on the steps even on the darkest of evenings. Its function is similar to that of aisle lighting in cinemas, which gives cinema-goers the light they need to find their way to their seat in a darkened room.
Solar Accent Lights
Well-placed outdoor solar accent lights can create a subtle and dramatic effect. Accent lighting can highlight prominent features, draw attention to unique ornamental plants, and functionally illuminate garden paths, sidewalks, and driveways. Garden statues, specimen trees, shrubs, and decorative stonework are just a few of the many features that accent lights can highlight and bring to life.
Solar Headlight
Solar spotlights are a surefire way to show off any home with great architectural features or landscaping. These lights make it easy to create a focus of light for any landscape feature in your yard or garden. Because they are bright and improve visibility up to a hundred feet or more, floodlights also improve home security. Before installing floodlights, check your homeowner’s association rules to see if there are any restrictions or guidelines on the types of lights and wattage allowed.
Solar Pathway Lights
There are numerous different styles and heights of solar pathway lights. If there are many low-growing shrubs and flowers lining your garden path, 1- to 2-foot-tall fixtures will probably suffice. However, if the plants are taller than 2 feet, you may want to use a longer light that will illuminate the path and plants. If your landscape already has pole lights or other lights nearby, consider installing ground lights, which include light types such as fountain lights, fairy lights, stepping stone lights, and solar tile lights.
Solar Rock Lights
Solar stone lights offer a great alternative to many of the more traditional types of lights. They are similar in features to most other types of solar accent lights but stand out with their unique design. Because they look like rocks, they can easily blend into landscapes with a natural design. Use stone lights in places where you could use a traditional accent light without drawing attention to the light fixture itself.
Copper garden lights are a great way to complement a lighting layout that includes unique or artistic features such as statues, fountains, wishing wells, etc. To keep the copper surface shiny and like new, you can protect it from the elements with a coat of clear lacquer. However, if you want the copper to have a weathered, natural look, just leave it as is and let the forces of nature take their course. After some time of exposure to the elements, the finish will eventually turn to a blue-green “verdigris” gloss that has an elegant and vintage look.
Mosaic Solar Garden Lights
Mosaic lights offer another artistic lighting option. Mosaic designs are not new; they have been around since the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Mosaics are usually made from broken glass or ceramic set in plaster or cement, creating a very durable and colorful material. It is then formed into a glass sphere that fits over the lightbulb and attaches to a stake.
With mosaic lights, you can create an almost unlimited number of designs and colors. If you can’t find a mosaic light that fits your design scheme, you can have a local craftsman create a custom design for your solar light.
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