Backyard problem solver for a flat uninteresting yard: Tip: One way to quickly and to pretty inexpensively, revitalize that flat yard of yours is to create berms. A berm is what landscapers create to add height and a variety of levels to a yard's design. To create a berm, soil is piled, domed, gently sloped to create visual interest with special planting areas becoming highlights of your yard.
When we purchased our new home, we had the same backyard problem to solve. There was a decent sized concrete patio and a postage stamp size strip between the fence and lawn, and grass. Utterly boring.
The lily bulbs I planted in the spring looked like lonely abandoned solders marching along the fence in that thin strip. Nothing to accent them, just stuck there, a big backyard problem to solve for my visual senses.
Enter the backyard problem solvers...us. Last fall we enlarged that ugly thin flat strip between the fence and the lawn. We widened the strip substantially, allowing room for something to grow. We took good top soil from a pond we were digging, added enriched composted soil, sand, and built raised soil berms.
On the long part of the back fence, the berm has some height, gently domed with room for large and small shrubs and flowers. We've left plenty of room between the fence and future plantings for drainage and fence preservation. Putting soil up on the fence will rot it quickly.
Another backyard problem solver hint here: If you have your planting beds planted right up to and covering part of your wood fence, it creates a moist wick that draws water into the wood. The wood stays wet and rots.
Our house is on a rocky stream bed so we use the available rocks to create drainage beneath the wood fence. We also set a row of rock just in front of the fence to hold the soil from touching the fence. A big expensive potential backyard problem solved, prevented.
To continue with our berming project, we left the bed in front of the house flat by the patio and front room window and then gently sloped to a higher domed height along the back part of the house. The flat area by the house will be perfect for my future prize rose garden. The raised berm along the rest of the house will host a profusion of low shrubs, flowers, and a couple of climbing trellises.
Our backyard problem solved: a flat ho-hum landscape is quickly ready to plant. Soon the colors, textures, scents of growing green, of exciting colors will refresh, delight, and tantalize the senses of our family and friends.
You can even create a bermed planting area along a fence. You can create a berm in an expanse of lawn to add interest. You can soften and stimulate a harsh flat expense into a rolling landscape. A load or three of rich soil and a load or two of sand combined with some hard work will inexpensively reward your efforts for you and your family.
By using this backyard problem solver idea, you will increase the visual and very probably the monetary value of your home. Visual sells. We at Landscaping Central hope you have fun being your own backyard problem solver.
© Randeen Cummings Nelson
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