Hard Landscaping Ideas to Refresh Your Garden for Summer
The lighter evenings are here, and the weather is mostly far more pleasant. Now is the perfect time to give your garden a refresh before summer and make your garden a more enjoyable place to spend time.
If you find that you just don’t have time to maintain and look after your garden, you may find some simple changes to the landscape will cut maintenance to a minimum and keep your garden looking its best all year long.
Simple Hard Landscaping for a Fast Garden Makeover
If you’re looking to give your garden a fast makeover there’s a range of hard landscaping options for you. Hard landscaping can help improve your garden quickly and easily even with a modest budget and not much time to spare. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
Make unusable garden areas usable
Poor drainage often causes muddy garden areas, and patches where grass does not grow which are unattractive and unusable. Hard landscaping could save this space and make it a useable area by paving it/gravel/concrete etc to create a solid base and drainage and increase the usable space in your garden. Make the most of the extra space by adding a barbeque, chimenea, or garden furniture to your new space and decorate with easy to maintain pot plants.
Overgrown gardens and out of control grass
If you have an overgrown garden or lots of lawn to cut but no time to keep neat and tidy, use hard landscaping to pave/patio the area and add potted plants etc to create a low maintenance environment. You could add a pergola with garden lights, and grow grape vines, or a range of sweet-smelling climbers like jasmine and honeysuckle to soften the look.
Damaged, weathered fencing
If your garden fence is old, ivy damaged, and has lost its colour, consider replacing it with a fresh new look. Replacing an old fence has an immediate impact on the whole of the garden as it frames your space and provides a backdrop to everything outside. Replacing old fencing doesn’t take long at all and is a cost-effective way to spruce up your garden quickly.
Rejuvenate your pathway
When a new garden path is laid it looks the business. Whether paved, gravel, or aggregate, a well-laid pathway helps to give a garden structure and encourages visitors to use the outdoor space. Over time though, pathways can start to look sad and haggard. As materials thin and are compressed, weeds can begin to grow through, paths can become uneven, and start to look dirty and worn. Levelling and replacing your pathway materials instantly brightens up any garden and makes it more pleasant to use.
Other Ways to Refresh Your Front or Back Garden
If you don’t quite have the time to get a hard landscaper in, there are other things you can do to help brighten up your garden which can still make a difference.
Paint the shed: Giving your shed a sand and recoat can bring it back to life in a few hours. Whether you want to use stain for a wood effect, paint for a splash of colour, or something else entirely such as a mural, sorting out your garden shed is a task well worth considering.
Add more plants: There’s no such thing as too many plants, and that goes for indoors and outdoors. Reinvigorate your garden with a round of fresh plants and flowers to give it instant colour and vibrancy. Look out for pollinator-friendly plants to help keep the local bees happy.
Refresh your decking: Stripping and re-staining wooden decking is a quick and easy job between a couple of people. On a good, dry day fresh decking stain can be dry and ready to walk on in 4-6 hours.
Add a pond or water feature: You may wish to speak to your local hard landscaping company about adding a pond or water feature to your garden, or you may wish to try to fit it yourself. Digging out and linking a pond can be heavy work, but the results will transform your garden and give you the option of adding fish to your pond, or creating a new home for local wildlife.
Pond pumps and water features require access to mains electricity which should only be attempted by a qualified electrician.
Speak to Axtell Surfacing About Your Hard Landscaping Requirements
Axtell Surfacing offer high quality local hard landscaping services and are able to offer advice and inspiration to those looking to refresh their garden quickly and easily. Get in touch today to discuss your needs or to get a quote.
