Bungalow Landscaping: Turning on the Charm
There are few homes with more charm than bungalows set in cheerily, flower-accented yards. You’ve just become the owner of a bungalow, with the typically tiny yard that you know is loaded with possibilities. You have only to find the way to bring those possibilities to life. You are, to put it simply, in need of bungalow landscaping.
Where To Turn For Bungalso Landscaping Ideas
The first place to turn for bungalow landscaping ideas is to your bungalow and its yard. Bungalows are ideal homes for simple landscaping schemes. The last thing you want to do is have your bungalow landscaping overwhelm your bungalow!
Start by sizing up the dimensions of your bungalow’s yard, and applying your initial bungalow landscaping to the roomiest area. If that’s the front yard of the bungalow, go with blooming plants. Not shrubs, but small blooming plants, as in annuals or compact perennial flowers. Why?
Your bungalow is small. It’s the nature of shrubbery to keep growing, year after year. Small house, big shrubs: it’s not a formula designed to maximize your bungalow’s charm.
The simplicity of a small selection of annuals and perennials of different heights, blooming in different colors at different times of the year, however, will give your bungalow a constantly fresh look, and you can have the extra fun of incorporating as part of your bungalow landscaping a birdbath, or small fountain, or white picket fence, complete with swinging gate opening onto a series of paving tones to lead your visitors among your blooming beauties.
Other Bungalow Landscaping Techniques Or, another of the more popular bungalow landscaping techniques is to go with potted plants. You can stagger them along your walk, hang them from shepherd’s hooks, or have one on either side of your front door. You can even do all three.
If, however, the larger part of your landscaping will occur in the backyard, consider for your bungalow landscaping planting a small lawn with borders along its edges in which you can plant flowers, vegetables, or both. You’ll need a small lawnmower for its maneuverability, and might even get by with a push mower. A small lawn won’t be too much of a challenge for a push mower.
Should you still need help in planning your bungalow landscaping, it’s as close as your local garden center. And there’s always the Internet with hundreds of gardening and landscaping sites. Given a little time, your new home will be awash in the charm of its bungalow landscaping!