As the holidays approach, spruce up your yard, garden, and greenspace with some festive landscape ideas. Plus, some of these suggestions help preserve your property and prepare it for the winter months ahead. Give your home's landscape a lift with these holiday ideas.
Holiday Hardscapes
When the weather gets cold, focus on hardscapes to get your property ready for the holidays. Create festive flair with lighting. For example, change the color of your bulbs. Pull out holiday yard art, like figurines, fountains, or signage, and accent with hardy shrubs, topiaries, or small conifers. Keep it simple to bring more attention to the items and plants that you use.
Container Makeover
Make the most of what you already have by doing something fresh with your summertime containers and vessels. For your winter landscape, fill the pots that previously held your summer geraniums with cold-hardy conifers for a festive touch; replace your gone-by herb garden with a bed of straw and colorful glass holiday ornaments.
Wintertime Foliage
For year-round color in your garden and landscape, go with four-season perennials. Look for plants that offer foliage in the wintertime. You can determine when your plants will bloom by examining the plant's label and comparing it to a hardiness zone map to find the best options for your region.
Potted Poinsettias
What would the holidays be without potted poinsettias near your front door, on the porch, or in a window? Poinsettia plants are a common gift and the foundation for numerous holiday ideas. Try grouping smaller plants in a variety of different pots, or choose large, bushy plants to serve as a focal point of the home.
For best results, position your plant inside near a warm, sunny window, or take it outside as long as the temperatures aren't freezing cold.
Festive Mailbox
Don't forget to do something special with your mailbox, as this is often the first glimpse that visitors have of your property when visiting over the holidays. Embellish and adorn the mailbox with greens, boughs, and garlands that are cohesive with your holiday landscape. Secure these decorations with floral wire.
Versatile Wreaths
You can't go wrong with wreaths, but try something out of the ordinary this season. Go with cedar instead of evergreen or pine instead of balsam. Decorate with elements found in nature, like pine cones and berries, or go with weather-resistant baubles and metallic beads that match your overriding holiday themes.
Your landscaper will be able to hang and suspend wreaths in tricky places, like upstairs windows, eaves, or other precarious positions with the use of equipment such as a cherry picker.
Fresh Garland
Talk to your landscaper about adding fresh garlands to your rails, eaves, and windows before the holiday. Between these garlands and your wreaths, your landscape will need little else to be festive and bright for Christmas. Recycle the garland after the holidays and use it to insulate your garden beds and plants all winter, or have the garland chipped and turned into mulch to be reused.
Finishing Touch
As a final finishing touch to your landscape, add mulch liberally around your beds, plants, trees, and borders. This will give your property a polished appearance after you have planted, potted, and decorated your landscaping. Bark mulch is widely available in a variety of types, colors, and sizes — choose what looks the most cohesive with the curb appeal of your home.
A well-maintained landscape says a lot about the people that live there, so clean and clear any debris or clutter from your yard and greenspace. Don't have time to bother? Arrange removal services from your Colorado Springs landscaping provider.
Get your yard and garden ready for the holidays with these wintertime landscaping tips and ideas. Work with the multi-faceted team at Affordable Services Inc. in Colorado Springs to deck the halls and get your home ready for this festive time of year.