Personalize Your Bay Village or Westlake, OH Outdoor Spaces with Specialty Plantings
In the beautiful Bay Village or Westlake, OH areas, outdoor spaces just look more engaging with curated plantings that add color and texture to the landscape. Planting beds can be the ideal canvas to display your favorite blooming perennials and annual colors throughout the year. These ideas can help you personalize your outdoor spaces with specialty plantings for vibrant, eye-catching appeal.
Trees for Beauty and Shade
Trees come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, adding visual interest to any yard, providing shade from the sun, and making time outdoors more comfortable on hot days. Their leaves change color throughout the year, providing a breathtaking seasonal display. Trees absorb pollutants from the air, helping to improve air quality.
Privacy Screens: Trees can be planted to create a privacy screen around your yard which can be helpful if you live in a crowded neighborhood or near a busy road and hear a lot of road noise.
Shade trees should be planted in certain areas of the landscape to provide cooling spaces on hot days. They can also make your outdoor living spaces more comfortable on warm afternoons.
West and South Sides of the Landscape: These sides of your home receive the most sunlight, so planting shade trees here can help cool your home in the summer.
Over Patios, Decks, and Other Outdoor Living Areas: Shade trees can provide a welcome respite from the sun on and around the patio, pool area, and covered porch on hot days.
Shrubs as Planting Bed Anchors
Choosing shrubs that are appropriate for your climate and soil conditions adds texture, size, and leafy plants to planting beds without much maintenance needed for them to thrive and grow. Using shrubs to create different spaces in your yard is a wonderful way to add beauty to outdoor living areas, along the driveway, and edging the walkways.
These shrubs are fast-growing and pretty, adding unique beauty to a planting bed.
Evergreens: Boxwood, holly, yew, juniper, rhododendron
Deciduous: Azalea, lilac, viburnum, forsythia, rose of Sharon
Flowering: Butterfly bush, crape myrtle, hydrangea, weigela, spirea
Plantings
Plantings fall into two categories, perennials and annuals. Perennial plantings return each year, bigger and better than the year before. They reproduce on their own and spread naturally so there is very little you have to do for them to add amazing qualities to the landscape.
Annual plantings are often seasonal and must be planted each year for the beauty associated with that season.
Spring annuals are multi-colored pansies, dianthus, and asters while summer planting beds are full of geraniums, petunias, and caladiums. Fall is for ornamental cabbage, mums, and ornamental grasses, and winter is full of evergreens and poinsettias.
Personalizing the Planting Beds
Customizing the planting beds in your landscape can reflect your love of certain blooms, leaf colors, and textures. There are characteristics that the pros use to deliver stunning plantings and trees for your property.
Landscapers have a trained eye for creating visually appealing landscapes, choosing plants with different colors, textures, and forms to create a sense of balance and harmony. They also consider how much sunlight and shade different types of plants need to choose plants that will thrive in the specific areas of your yard where you want to plant them.
A transformation of your landscape begins with an idea of creating a restful or activity-filled spot in the backyard—and the result will be a gorgeous outdoor living space where you will want to spend the majority of your time. To create such an outdoor oasis, our design and construction experts can plan out a beautiful paver patio, fire features, outdoor kitchen, stairs and walkways, water features, and more.
About the Author
With over 20 years in business and more than a decade as a Unilock Authorized Contractor, 1st Impressions exceeds expectations with every outdoor living space we create—and we stand by our work with an exclusive 10-year warranty on our paver installations. Our attention to detail, knowledgeable team of experts, and dedication to excellent service ensure that you will be able to enjoy your transformed landscape for a long time.
