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Many times, when your landscape no longer looks nice or is not meeting your needs, you can make a few small changes and bring it back to a more beautiful state. However, there are times when little changes don't quite cut it. In certain situations, you may be better off massively overhauling your landscape and having the entire space redone. Here are some signs that this may, indeed, be your best approach.
All of your plants require unique and specialized care
Maybe some of your plants need to be watered every day. Other plants can only be watered once a week. Each plant also has its own trimming needs, fertilization demands, and soil preferences. When your plants all have different needs, caring for them can start to feel like a full-time job. If you slack off, your plants die and your landscape loses its appeal. A good solution would be to tear out the entire landscape and re-plant your yard and gardens with plants that are better adapted to your local climate. Such plants will require a lot less care. Also, make sure all of the plants you select have similar care needs. This way, you can water them all at once, fertilize them all at once, and so forth.
Your landscape has suffered a lot of erosion
Erosion can eat away at garden beds and yards. You may have lots of low spots where water is pooling. You may also have some areas where it seems like your garden beds are collapsing in or washing away. Combatting erosion a little at a time can be tough. You are often better off having all of the landscaping removed. Your landscaper can then redesign a landscape that won't face as much erosion. They can include elements like retaining walls, larger rocks, and stone mulch to keep things in place as time goes on.
You want to get rid of hardscaping.
Hardscaping elements like patios, retaining walls, and built-in stairs are really hard to remove without damaging the surrounding landscape. You will likely end up having to replace and repair a lot of the landscape anyways. As such, people often opt for a total landscape overhaul when they decide to have major hardscaping removed.
If you are in any of the situations above, it might be time to totally overhaul your landscaping. Talk to a landscaping contractor to learn more about your design options.
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