Fall Landscaping Tips

Landscaping Yorktown Heights, NY

Fall is an ideal time for landscaping. Want to make hardscape changes? You can replace paving, make raised beds, re-shape, re-lay out, make paths, build retaining walls, removing unwanted plants. Fall is also a good time for pool and paver installation.

When it comes to softscape landscaping, fall is the time to enjoy your garden and enjoy the fall colors. Maintenance gardening will allow to make the most of the fruits of hard work throughout the spring and summer.   Important fall landscape activities include pulling off dead flowers, trimming bushes.  Fall is a time to tidy up your camellias by removing spent blossoms, and picking up fallen one. Pick off dead flowers from rhododendrons and azaleas, which are at their peak in the fall. 

Fall is a good time for adding many plants and trees, because they have time to develop hardy root systems that will get them through the winter and ready to go next spring. Fall id also a good time to reflect on new landscape changes. You can get great ideas by attending flower shows, open gardens, and visiting garden shops. You can add style to your landscape by sharpening edges of your lawn and flow bed. You can create focal points of interest by adding a circular bed, outdoor artwork, or interesting borders of wood.  

Finally, you can consult with your landscaper. After thoroughly enjoying your home's softscape, which you worked so hard to create and nurture throughout the spring and summer, use the late fall to sit down and plan changes to your overall landscape design.  Agree on major design changes with your landscaper, make a down payment, make a start on the project if there's time, and the work will have top priority when landscaping begins anew in the spring.

For expert landscaping in the Westchester and Putnam County areas, contract the Turf Barbers. 2929 Quinlan Street Yorktown Heights, NY 10598; +1 914-302-2469; http://www.trufbarbers.com