When owning a home, you may not feel like landscaping should be at the top of your to do list. The interior items may have higher priority since they have the most impact on you.

But landscaping isn’t just mowing your lawn, cleaning up leaves in the fall, or planting flowers in the spring. Landscaping includes designing your space to meet your own needs and adding some visual appeal.

Landscaping combines two different elements of hardscaping and softscaping. Hardscaping involves hard materials incorporated into your area, think of patios, decks, or walkways. Whereas softscaping is all your living items, i.e. trees, plants, bushes, grass.

Landscaping has great benefits, including increasing your home value, beautifying your space, the potential to decrease heating and cooling expenses and potential health benefits.

A beautiful yard can also help your mental state. If your yard is covered in shrubs and leaves, it may leave you stressed, but coming home to a beautiful oasis that you’ve created for yourself can give you a feeling of peace and lightness as well as a sense of pride.

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