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7 Steps to a Great Landscape

Write down what you do and don’t want in your landscape – look at pictures, search the internet and visit other gardens to give you inspiration.
Decide who designs your landscape – you or call in a professional (or perhaps a combination of the two).
Have an accurate survey plan to work from (critical – you won’t succeed without an accurate survey drawing. If you hire a designer, they will do this part for you).
Learn the basic principles of landscape design (this will be enormously beneficial even if you aren’t designing the landscape yourself).
Make sure the design works as one whole unit, even if you divide up the space.
Choose your plants very carefully. Each plant needs to suit the environment and look good with plants surrounding it, for as long as possible.
Find an experienced person to construct your design. It is a real skill building a landscape well, so very important to get the right person to build it.