BY KRISTEN GARRIDO
Xeriscaping involves using drought-resistant plants, gravel, and rocks to create a water-efficient landscape. It's perfect for arid climates or areas prone to water shortages.
Growing fruits, vegetables, and herbs in your backyard allows you to enjoy fresh, organic herbs for cooking right at home.
Designing a tropical paradise with lush foliage, palm trees, and exotic plants creates a resort-like atmosphere in your backyard.
Creating a rock garden with boulders, gravel, and drought-tolerant plants adds texture, interest, and visual appeal to your backyard.
Planting a fruit tree orchard with a variety of fruit-bearing trees like apple, pear, cherry, and peach provides homegrown produce and shade.
Creating a Mediterranean oasis with olive trees, lavender, rosemary, and terracotta pots evokes the beauty and romance of the Mediterranean coast.
Creating a Japanese Zen garden with gravel, rocks, moss, and carefully pruned trees promotes relaxation, mindfulness, and tranquility.
Designing a cactus and succulent garden with drought-tolerant plants like cacti, succulents, and agaves adds texture, color, and sculptural beauty.
Making a bird sanctuary with bird feeders, bird baths, and native plants attracts birds and provides habitat, food, and water for local bird species.
Planting a pollinator garden with a variety of native flowers, shrubs, and trees attracts bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects to your backyard.
Planting a flower garden or a wildflower meadow with a mix of native wildflowers creates a naturalistic and biodiverse landscape.
These backyard essentials will uplevel your home in an instant and make you want to spend the entire summer outside!