| The most obvious place you would think to start | | | | exist in your yard as a part of your new gardens. |
| turning your lawn or gardens into a natural landscape | | | | Existing trees and shrubs can simply be landscaped |
| is in the areas where grass isn't growing or do well, | | | | around with some simple groundcover. |
| places like shaded areas, wet areas, steep slopes | | | | The adding of a natural look to a formal yard that |
| that are hard to work and rock outcroppings. These | | | | has lot of open space because of plants that have |
| are are all good places for some type of alternative | | | | been strategically placed can be accomplished easily |
| plantings, but you still to do some more research | | | | by creating areas of flowering perennials, grouped |
| before you can develop a plan that will work for you, | | | | together and adding some ornamental grasses into |
| you can't just start planting. | | | | your design. This look can even be accomplished |
| Once you have some areas in mind, put a list of | | | | when trees have been grown in a line along a |
| plants that you would like to see grown in those | | | | property line by grouping plants together in a free |
| areas,research them and make sure they are | | | | flowing, wavy or uneven appearance along the |
| appropriate for your area, and most important is to | | | | property line. This even works well in front of a |
| start out with small sections of those areas, don"t | | | | fence. |
| try to do everything at once. Expanding your | | | | Your imagination is the limit when it come to a natural |
| gardens as they grow and you can see the end | | | | landscape. Whatever you choose to create, don't |
| product is a lot less work and less expensive than | | | | remove existing native plants from the wild and |
| finding out nothing is working the way you thought. | | | | transplant them as a part of your landscape. Some |
| When choosing plants for you natural landscape, | | | | of the plants you take may be ones that are |
| select from limited number of plant varieties and | | | | endangered. When moved they may not survive and |
| incorporate groundcover plants into your design. | | | | causing them to become one more step closer to |
| Layout what you are trying to accomplish and don't | | | | extinction, along with harming the existing ecosystem |
| be afraid to plant in small bunches or clusters, this is | | | | they came from. |
| know as "drifts".If you look at the way nature grows | | | | There is so much you can do when creating a natural |
| plants in the wild, they are not uniform, you want | | | | landscape garden and the attraction of wildlife like |
| that natural look. | | | | birds and butterflies is just a couple of enjoyable |
| When designing your gardens, incorporate the | | | | sites to see. |
| existing walkways, pavement, shrubs and trees that | | | | |