Summer is the height of the beauty offered by the various plants in your landscape. If you’re ready to add more pizzazz to your front entry or backyard living space, now is the perfect time. Adding new plants to your garden and landscape in late summer will not only brighten up the look of your home, but will give you so much more enjoyment from your landscape. You can bring some color to a landscape with the help of a garden nursery near me in the Hudson Valley, NY area.
Use Natives Wherever You Can
The plants that have been growing in the Hudson Valley for millennia have become very adept at living here. They’re well-adapted to seasonal changes as well as the typical rain and drought cycles. Some flowers have even specially adapted to respond to local pollinators such as bees and butterflies. Native perennials and annuals will always make an incredible addition to your garden and overall landscape by blending in seamlessly while letting their colors shine. On top of all this, they will require minimal watering and maintenance which means more enjoyment of your landscape, and less worry. Let your local garden nursery guide you in choosing native plants to add to your landscape.
Plan Long-Term by Adding Trees
If there are any unused portions of your landscape that may be particularly hard to access, you may want to consider adding some saplings to create a mini wildland that you could dedicate to local wildlife and pollinators.
To create a gorgeous estate feel, consider planting a few trees along your driveway to delight you with stunning fall color every time you come home. Planting deciduous trees on the sunny side of the patio and home will bring welcome shade on the hottest days of summer, and reduce your cooling bills. Planting evergreens on the north side will keep the wind at bay and reduce heating bills. Wherever they are placed, trees make wonderful anchors for the landscape. You can use trees as a strategy to frame an excellent view or block a view entirely if privacy is an issue. Talk to the experts at your local garden nursery to check which species will work best for your landscape (we recommend choosing hardy, water-wise natives), and learn about best planting practices and maintenance tips for the trees you choose.
Define Spaces with Shrubs
Much like trees, shrubs will serve as anchors that define different spaces. You can use them as boundaries as well as wonderful additions to a landscape. Some will grace your landscape with lush greens all year; others will delight with flowers, berries, and foliage. Native shrubs should be placed towards the center of your plant beds in order to help keep everything visible as they will sometimes grow as tall and large as possible. You can choose various shrubs based on their color and texture as it relates to your garden design. Some shrubs have large leaves with pink flowers while others have pine needles and white flowers and there’s much more variety than that. Talk to your nursery experts on the best shrubs for every location in your landscape.
Fill In Spaces With Ground Covers
In order to keep the soil moist and cool during the heat of the summer, you’ll want to add some ground covers. Not only practical, ground covers are also beautiful and incredibly varied. Use them to fill in spaces between plants; within rock gardens; under trees where little else grows; or even in nooks and crannies on a decorative stacked stone wall.
Curate Color With Flowers
Flowers are already at the forefront of color development in a landscape, so it makes perfect sense to increase the diversity of flowers for year-round color. Look past roses, sunflowers, and daisies, and choose some native flowers that provide a diverse array of color and bloom at various times during the year.
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