During the heavy snows, it’s easy to dream of spring when you can enjoy warmth outdoors. However, your daydreams might leave you wondering where you’ll be enjoying the outdoors from–that is, if your landscape is ideal for you to enjoy the springtime. With the new season of growth comes a great opportunity to make improvements to your landscape. After all, it’s a time when plants are primed to grow for the spring, meaning new flowers or displaced grass will have an easier time bouncing back. Below are some ideas for landscaping projects you can start when it gets warmer to help inspiration spring up in your mind.
Landscape Design Ideas
As the ground thaws and plants are primed to bloom, spring is a great time to start new landscaping projects. Our design team performs a thorough consultation to enact your vision, but starting the process in the spring means you can enjoy your new developments throughout the late spring and summer. Here are some particular landscape design services that are great to start performing in the spring.
Hardscaping Projects
If you’ve been dreaming about a patio or retaining wall over the winter, the spring is the perfect time to schedule a consultation! The ground thawing means that there will be time to install the project and enjoy it over the summer months. Through our experience, installations like patios and retaining walls can make a big difference and have an easy time settling in the spring. Just like with landscaping, many companies like ours will walk through the ideas you have in mind and craft the perfect place to sit and enjoy your landscape.
Landscape Lighting for Your Hardscapes
An additional bonus that you might want to consider before you spend summer nights outside on your new patio is landscape lighting additions. These not only improve visibility for your guests, but also safety when walking on your property at night. There are many landscape lighting designs that can be integrated into your hardscaping seamlessly, meaning you get the benefits of lighting without anything sticking out on your retaining wall – unless that’s your design preference.
Spring Flower Bed Design
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A particular part of your landscape design that is perfect to set the tone for the spring season is flower beds. Whether annuals, perennials, or seasonals, you can enhance these beds with unique colors and layouts. For quick, annual growth that will thrive in the Memphis heat, petunias and geraniums are an excellent choice. Daffodils and Tulips sprout in the early spring, if you’re planning for the future. We also have a list of perennial plants that will last throughout the seasons: on that list, black-eyed susans start to bloom in the spring and are the perfect match for the warmer season.
Laying New Mulch
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While looking at your flower beds, replacing their mulch layers is also a great option for the spring. The cold winds and snow can scatter mulch, and over time, the organic nutrients and materials decompose over time. This means reapplying gives your landscape a boost in both appearance and vitality. You can also choose whether to match the same color as your old mulch, or if you want to update to something new.
Spring Landscape Maintenance
There are also landscaping projects you can take on that don’t require renovating your whole landscape. When the winter snows thaw, it can reveal overgrown hedges, damp debris from the fall, or bare patches where grass didn’t last through the cold snaps. The following lawn and landscape maintenance services are ideal to do in the spring, not just for your enjoyment, but so new growth can also bounce back.
Sod Installation
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When you need to plant new sod, the best time is a transitional season like spring or fall due to the temperatures. Usually, we recommend planting new sod in the spring. This not only lets you enjoy the grass, but means that the roots will be able to grow strong in the summer instead of freezing in the winter. Though you could install sod yourself, having a landscaping company review your lawn can ensure that it matches the grass of your lawn and is planted properly.
Lawn Maintenance Package
There are a plethora of other services that you can perform on your lawn for a spring refresh. Ranging from treatments like fertilization and aeration to a seasonal cleanup, there are many different services that provide wonderful benefits. This is what makes starting up a lawn maintenance program so appealing. By enlisting in a maintenance package, you get a variety of services that can help your lawn to look better and your landscape shine brighter. These are usually tailored to specific seasons and your lawn for maximum effectiveness.
We may be biased because of the lawn maintenance package that we offer, but bundling these services saves money and makes a world of difference. Especially in the spring, when your landscape is primed to thrive, trying out a variety of clearing and rejuvenation services can make an impact that lasts all year.
Schedule A Landscaping Refresh in the Spring!
If you’re curious about our landscaping maintenance or our design services, contact us! We’ve served the East Memphis area for years, and our team is proud of the work that we do throughout the seasons to help you enjoy the outdoors. Contact us today to ask about the services we can provide for you.