Landscaping Trends for Spring 2021

Upgrade Your Outdoor Living Environment

Gardens With Purpose

There is a significant shift away from the traditional static plantings and unused lawns that have dominated front yards and properties. Family members want to use every square inch of the yard at all hours of the day. With family members of all ages at home so much more now, there is a renewed interest in kitchen gardens. The potager, where both flowers, kitchen herbs and vegetables can be combined, is making a big comeback. As well as raised vegetable beds, mini orchards, medicinal plantings, and beehives.

Color & Interest Throughout the Seasons

People want gardens that swaddle us from the chaos of the world. Being surrounded by verdant green is a timeless human desire. The right plants in the right place can create private and serene settings, but still be full of interest and color as one moves through them. Even decorative landscape plantings can serve the purpose of video call backdrops. Having a beautiful focal point and a strong mix of evergreens, perennials and ornamental grasses that provide seasonal interest and greenery all year is now a must.

Inside on the Outside

Outdoor living areas extend the home and promote the feeling of ‘getting out’ after a year spent with limited flexibility to dine out or travel. Your outside family spaces can look like and have the amenities of the resorts that you used to travel to for vacations. An outdoor shower in a completely private small garden is a great example of extending your outdoor enjoyment.

Essential Native Plants

Native plantings in residential gardens attract suburban wildlife such as birds and pollinators while providing year-round beauty. With the pandemic and climate change looming, interacting with and prioritizing native plants at home is becoming more important to people and the planet. Native plants need less extra watering and provide a much-needed habitat. And they are very resilient since they belong naturally to the region.

Extend Connections

Outdoor living areas extend the home, providing homeowners with relaxing areas to set up an extra work or study space. With the explosion of remote working and schooling, the ability to be online while using an open-air office or study space is crucial. Weather resistant outdoor internet WIFI systems are trending, as are necessities like electrical outlets and USB ports. Entertainment has also moved outdoors, so all-weather bluetooth speakers and outdoor TVs and projectors are increasingly requested features.

HIRE THE PROS AT PINE BROOK LANDSCAPING

Landscaping and hardscaping companies like PINE BROOK are starting to see a rise in outdoor home improvement projects. The increased time spent at home in 2020 has given many homeowners reason to re-evaluate how they utilize their outdoor spaces and the need to make them more functional. Even as we potentially return to some form of normalcy in 2021, we predict homeowners will continue looking to upgrade and utilize outdoor spaces as part of their daily lives and routines.

Ready to take your outdoor living area to the next level and increase your property value? At PINEBROOK LANDSCAPING, we create stylish hardworking outdoor living areas to enhance and extend your family living space outside. We are ready to design your perfect backyard relaxation zone AND to provide worry-free installation so that you can just sit back and enjoy. Click to contact the professionals at PINE BROOK LANDSCAPING or call 267-718-1771 and get a quote from our design team for your landscape and hardscape upgrade this spring!