Affordable Landscaping Ideas for Your Yard


If you have a yard you want to enjoy it as much as you can. And what is more relaxing than a beautiful, well arranged yard? But hiring a landscaping company to look after it on an ongoing basis is a little too much for your family budget.

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Thankfully, according to a realtor listing beautifully landscaped houses for sale in Erie, you can use one or all of these affordable landscaping ideas to make your yard beautiful and maintain it with minimum effort:

 1. Choose Perennial Plants and Flowers

Perennial plants will be reborn each spring and enchant you with their beauty all summer long. You do not have to replant the yard each year – and this is a major way of saving money. Some of the most beautiful perennial flowers for your yard are tulips, hydrangeas, lavender and daylilies.

 2. Spread Mulch around the Plants

Mulch has many useful roles: it keeps weeds from growing around your plants and stealing their nutrients from the soil, it gives your yard a neat look and it provides a great background for colorful bushes and flower beds. 

Also, mulch prevents moisture from evaporating from the soil and, if you choose the organic type, it also enriches the soil with nutrients. 

3. Repurpose Items as Planters

We all have old wheelbarrows, tires and buckets in the garage or tool shed. You’ve meant to fix them for ages, but just can’t get around doing it. Here is a simpler way of using them: clean them, apply a coat of bright colored paint, and repurpose them as planters in your yard!