What is a landscaper?

A landscaper is someone who creates a garden, yard, patio, or other outdoor areas for your home.  For example, if the area around your new home is neglected, you might want to hire a landscaper to assist you in selecting some attractive plants for your front yard and redecorating it.

What is the cheapest type of landscaping?

One of the most straightforward and affordable landscaping activities is planting trees; you only need your digging equipment and your tree.  Additionally, if you plant trees where they will be most useful, you will save even more money.

What does garden landscaping include?

Garden landscaping refers to the deliberate modification of the surroundings of a property. This includes altering the surface and terrain, building structures, and planting selectively.

How much should I budget for landscaping?

In Ireland, the budget you’ll need to landscape a garden range from €750 to €1600. However, it truly depends on the size, extent of the work to be done, and time; thus, if you need an exact estimate, then feel free to contact us here at PG Landscaping and Paving.

Does landscaping increase home value?

Yes! Landscaping your home has a sizable price advantage in increasing your home’s value.  Depending on the type of landscaping and the home’s actual worth, this benefit ranges from 5.5 percent to 12.7 percent.

This equates to an increase in value of €16,500 to €38,100 for a €300,000 property. However, landscaping involves more than just planting a few flowers and plants. Buyers prioritize a maintained design in their landscape requirements. Plant maturity and size come in second and third. The variety of plants used in the landscaping design is a less significant but still important component, but overall, landscaping does increase your home’s value.

What is the difference between a gardener and a landscaper?

Gardeners sometimes called “plantsmen”, focus their attention on the well-being and health of their plants. Meanwhile, landscapers handle outdoor construction work, including walls, patios, and other similar projects referred to as “hardscaping”.

What kind of skills does a landscaper need?

When it comes to landscaping, a landscaper needs the following skills

• A passion for gardening and working outdoors
• A solid understanding of plants and the environments in which they thrive, 
• Has good design skills and knowledge, including using computer design software and drawing and sketching designs by hand.
• Organizational abilities and project management
• Ability to operate small machinery
• Have a good level of physical fitness

What are landscaping duties and responsibilities?

A landscaper must fulfill the following duties and responsibilities:

• Lawn mowing, trimming, and fertilization
• Mulching and weeding flowerbeds
• Trimming shrubs, hedges, and small trees
• Removing unattractive, damaged, or dead trees
• Planting trees, shrubs, and flowers
• Watering the landscape, lawn, and gardens
• Preserving and keeping track of plant health

How do I prepare my back garden for landscaping?

Preparation is key to productive back garden landscaping. It reduces the likelihood of delays, creates an ideal environment for adding new features, and helps you evaluate the project’s budget. Organizing and preparing your yard’s features starts the plan. With that in mind, here are some things you need to prepare your yard for landscaping:

• Assess, inventory, and map your yard’s permanent structures. This lets you focus on regions most affected by the project and their individual preparatory needs. 
• Clear your lawn of organic and inorganic residues, trash, dead plants, and weeds. 
• Use bypass pruners, lopping shears, or garden shears to prune all plants that will stay in the landscape. 
• Remove all pests from infected plants to prevent them from spreading to new plants. 
• Remove non-landscape features that don’t fit into your landscaping plan. 
• Remove old grass and roots with a sod cutter to prepare your yard for fresh sod. 
• Check your home’s water pressure if your landscaping plan incorporates an irrigation system. 

How do I landscape like a professional?

Landscaping is an easy task, thus if you need to do it on your own, here are five things you could do to the landscape like a professional: 

• Create a low-maintenance lawn. Leave clippings on the grass to decompose and return nutrients to the soil for a lush, professional-looking lawn. Seed your lawn with Kentucky bluegrass and other cool-season grasses. After seeding, irrigate the property until it’s four to six inches deep. Until it cools, water as needed. Fertilise in September and October.
• Add impact and definition to your lawn. Look at your house from across the street like an outsider. To reveal your house’s architecture, prune bushes and shrubs that block windows and other characteristics. If you share a yard with neighbors, plant a row of leafy plants like burning bush, which turns bright red in the fall, or hardy roses to make a lovely hedge. Use a half-moon edger, stones, or blocks to define overgrown flowerbeds and paths. 
• Make sure to nourish your garden. Start planting flowers, shrubs, and trees, and put a layer of mulch around the base to prevent weeds and moisture loss. Compost coffee grounds, eggshells, tea bags, vegetable peelings, and other non-meat and non-dairy foods.
• Narrow your garden’s palette. Think like a designer, choose flowers and shrubs in a limited palette, and repeat them around your garden for a professional effect. Create a tranquil garden with white and gray flowers, a coastal-style garden with pale pink, blue, and white flowers, or a lively, colorful green with orange, pink, red, yellow, and purple flowers: balance sizes, shapes, and textures with garden magazines and coffee table books. 
• Give your garden a heritage tree. For long-term value and beauty, plant a heritage tree such as sugar maple, American linden, white oak, birch, Norway spruce, arborvitae, or others. Your tree will block winter winds and provide summer shade, reducing your home’s energy use. In addition, your historical tree cleans the air and shelters birds, squirrels, and other creatures.