Everybody wants to make their home beautiful and the surroundings play an important role in it. Having pleasant outdoors can give you the peace and tranquility you had been looking for. Everybody retires to their own place after a hard days work and having a beautiful garden to relax can be really helpful. Landscaping plays a very important role to make a home warm, welcoming and relaxing. It helps you improve your garden or yard in a practical and in an aesthetic way.

Be your own designer:

Landscaping is an art of nurturing the environment so that its essential elements- the land, trees, plants, stones and water may co-exist in harmony. There are many landscaping ideas when used cleverly can beautify your house and its surroundings. It is not necessary that your landscape should be designer made. You can also design as long as you know the some facts that are concerned with landscaping. You can be as imaginative and innovative as you want and then show your creation to others. After all it is your private living space and should reflect your personality.

Plants for shady area:

The most common problem faced in landscaping is finding plants that will grow in shady areas. If your area is dry shade and wish to grow plants there, it would be problematic. There is no point bringing beautiful and colorful flowers for your shade garden as they will not grow if they are not good shade plants. There are plants that can grow in dry conditions where there is lack of water and sun. Such conditions are characteristic of areas under trees or beneath the eaves of north-facing walls. Lack of sunlight is obvious at once when one considers such areas, but one may not as readily recognize the equally challenging lack of water there. In areas under trees, the tree roots suck up much of the available water so you have to be careful while choosing your plants and look for plants that would be able to tolerate or prefer shade. Before planting your plants in dry-shade areas, you can improve your chances by mixing organic matter into the soil, thereby increasing the soil's water-retention.

A place for all:

When you design your landscape keep in mind the needs of all family members. If you have small kids then they would need a play area and older kids may need areas for sports and hobbies. Perhaps you would want a gardening area, or a place for outdoor entertaining where you can entertain your friends but don