Your home's landscaping makes up a central part of its character. Its personality. Costs for landscaping will hinge on the extent of your ambitions. Are you moving into a new home, working with a blank slate? Are you moving into an existing home and want the landscaping to reflect your style? Or are you revamping your own yards? Regardless of the starting point, start with the big questions before you even start thinking about designs: What do you want out of your landscape? Do you want to create more privacy and security? Do you want a landscape that requires little water or maintenance or do you want flower or vegetable beds that will keep your hands covered with dirt all spring, summer and fall?
Landscaping projects run the gamut. They can be as simple as having a small lawn with a few flower beds or as complicated as intricate rolling hills and pathways, with carefully chosen plants and trees. They could include decks, ponds, decorative concrete pathways, outdoor misting systems and even fountains and waterfalls. This is an area that makes sense to find a landscaper that can give you quotes on different projects. Continue Reading
Once you reach clarity about your landscaping ambitions, you should decide if this is a project you want to do on your own or whether you want help.
Landscape Architects and Other Pros
The key to a beautiful and successful landscape lies, in large part, in the planning. It can help you make the most of your landscaping dollars. Even those who like to do their own planting can find professional help on the planning stage immensely valuable. Going on your own, you might plant a bed of plants that require direct sun in a spot that's too shady, or, worse, plant a tree too close to your foundation, which can compromise its integrity when the roots grow out. Landscape architects and other landscape professionals can help you choose plants that play well together. One plant, for instance, can repel insects that would otherwise eat away at its neighbors. They also can help with creating the most interesting and beautiful designs that will say within your budget.
Keep in mind, while they can help you decide placement of a pond or the types of plants to purchase, some landscape designers will not help with the installation. Landscapers and groundskeepers can do the heavy lifting for you, and some of them can do general planning, though rarely at the level of landscape architects. You get what you pay for, so make sure you do your research and get references -- regardless of who you choose.
Landscape Surveyors are rarely needed but you should have a survey done anytime you have boundary changes or land division, ownership transfer, erection of fences or structures that are related to a property boundary.
Grading or Resloping
Water that doesn't drain correctly away from your home's foundation can cause water damage and moisture issues, such as mold and mildew, in your basement and crawlspaces. Even a little bit of water can cause thousands of dollars in damage. To protect your property, you must grade your yard away from your home's foundation.
Landscape grading can be carried out in various ways, but it is something that should be considered, if possible, in conjunction with your landscape design. In this way, your landscape can be created for both aesthetics and function, and drainage problems will be eliminated.
Synthetic Grass (Turf) or Xeriscaping
With droughts so common in many parts of the country, more landscape designers are creating projects that conserve water. Synthetic grass can provide the swaths of green you want without the watering. In the past decade, synthetic grasses have grown much softer and more natural looking
Another water-saving strategy is to xeriscape, which will require less water and maintenance. A xeriscaped landscape doesn't have to look like a desert. Carefully chosen shrubs, trees plants and flowers can provide vibrant, lush color as well as water conservation.
Both synthetic turf and xeriscaping can save you money over time by saving you water and labor.
Water Features and Decor
When adding features like a gazebo, pond, fountain, misting system or pond to your landscaping, make sure that you fully understand not only the installation cost but the cost of the supplies needed to build the project as well as the ongoing costs of energy and regular maintenance. For example, ponds need consistent maintenance so that they don't grow mold or mildew. If you live in an area where winters are harsh, you will have to either de-ice or empty your pond in the winter time. If you introduce aquatic plants or fish, that is even more of a maintenance cost. Thinking about all aspects of your water features and other décor will help you with your planning and the better you plan, the better prepared you are for unexpected costs.
We have owned out home for15 yrs. and need some facelifting, general clean-up and junk removal.
I am not in a hurry, so please include quotes.
Beth Pirtle
More than 1 year ago
What's average cost to remove old landscaping (bushes) and replace with new?
Alexander Gaskill
More than 1 year ago
We would hv to schedule a netting but I can take care of it at an fair honest price
Betty Suber
More than 1 year ago
We have owned out home for 20 yrs. and need some facelifting and general clean-up. Also need trees pruned as well as shaping of some plants.
Mary Clark
10 months ago
I need some landscaping bushes removed and new plantings. I need an appointment to discuss price estimates
10 months ago
Hi Mary, Thanks for your comment! We would be happy to help you connect with a landscaping pro. You can submit a request to our pros here: www.homeadvisor.com, browse a list of local pros here: http://www.homeadvisor.com/c.html, or send your info to [email protected] and a project advisor will reach out to assist you. –HASupport
stan webinski
More than 1 year ago
would like costing to install sprinkler systems
Mary Lou Thon
10 months ago
we need removal of old planting and replacement with simple, neat easy to care for new
My husband mows, but neither of us is really a gardener.
Judy Mest
10 months ago
We have lived in our home 49 years & no plans to move! Small front yard with LARGE CATSUS (that I want to keep)! Love color with plants & just need to have it cleaned up with some new plants!
We have a side yard which needs help with new ideas - vegetable garden & flowers would be nice!
ROBERT FELDMAN
More than 1 year ago
please call 303-438-0781 broomfield, colo 80020
ROBERT FELDMAN
More than 1 year ago
I am looking for some one who can rootille front and back yard, put in a side walk from front door
to mail box ,remove side walk in front of house put sod and possibly put a sprinkling system in front
yard and seed back yard a moth later will need to discuss this with that person because have two
dogs that us back for potting and etc.
Elizabeth Doan
More than 1 year ago
Please include quotes
Dorothea Graca
More than 1 year ago
I would want a small in ground pool and have it the same depth from end to end" How do the pool sizes start at? also how does the prices start at?
Louis Simpson
More than 1 year ago
My yard is a mess with mole holes and dead grass. I also have some plants I need removed. I've been trying to get rid of them for years. Every time I think their gone they return.
Karen Flynn
More than 1 year ago
I never thought of installing synthetic grass. That might be an option. I am not in a hurry to do this project, so quotes could include it.
ERLE Smith
More than 1 year ago
my lawn needs to be replaced and I am thinking about a sprinkler system
voncile adkins
More than 1 year ago
I have a home In crestview fl. 32578, I need landscaping, how do I get some bids for the job?
Ric Ricard
More than 1 year ago
Correction- I just got the link- below!!
voncile adkins
More than 1 year ago
I need some landscaping done at my home I have just bought. in crestview fl.
Scott Barrett
12 months ago
Looking for someone to brush-hog about 5-7 acres in Falcon MO
MARIAN Fischer5152776868
More than 1 year ago
I need a tree trimmed that hangs over my roof so that roofers can repair roof..
More than 1 year ago
Hi Marian, Thanks for reaching out, we’re happy to connect you with a pro for your project. You can submit a request to our pros here: www.homeadvisor.com, browse a list of local pros here: http://www.homeadvisor.com/c.html, or send your info to [email protected] and a project advisor will reach out to assist you. –HASupport
we need removal of old planting and replacement with simple, neat easy to care for new
My husband mows, but neither of us is really a gardener.
I am looking for some one who can rootille front and back yard, put in a side walk from front door
to mail box ,remove side walk in front of house put sod and possibly put a sprinkling system in front
yard and seed back yard a moth later will need to discuss this with that person because have two
dogs that us back for potting and etc.
I would want a small in ground pool and have it the same depth from end to end" How do the pool sizes start at? also how does the prices start at?