Selling Your Home? Simple Tips to Maintain and Improve Landscaping

Posted by Justin Havre on Friday, September 15th, 2017 at 9:56am.

How to Landscape to Boost Curb AppealWhen it's time to sell your home, one of the best ways to attract buyers, improve curb appeal and make your home look good for the listing is to maintain and improve your landscaping. For busy home sellers, making big changes to the landscaping can be a challenge. Fortunately, there are many small things that can make a big difference in the way your home's lawn looks.

Prune and Shape Shrubs

Shrubs can get overgrown and spindly with time. The easiest way to revitalize old shrubs is to prune them with a sharp pair of shears. Clean the sheers with bleach water before going to work, to prevent the spread of fungus and plant disease. Prune shrubs at the beginning of the growing season to encourage full, leafy growth.

Edge Your Beds

Neatly edged flower beds make lawns look tidy. Some gardeners use plastic or stone edging to define the edge of their flower beds. Other gardeners plant a row of lush flowers around the perimeter of their flower beds. Both methods work, so you can pick the look that works for your lawn.

Focus On The Front Door

The front door is a natural focal point for home buyers. You can reinforce this focal point by placing attractive flower pots, potted plants or hanging plants near the front door. Avoid putting anything in the way of the door. Keep the plants well watered and well maintained once they're in place.

Clean Up Your Tools

Put away the garden hose, shovels and other garden tools at the end of every gardening session. Remember that home buyers can drop by at any time, so it's important to avoid a messy yard. To make clean up easy, keep tools in an attractive outdoor covered bin. This way, you can access them from the yard.

Fix Sprinklers

Broken sprinkler heads can leave patches of lawn looking dry, bare and dead. If you have an automatic sprinkler system with one or two broken sprinkler heads, fixing the sprinkler heads can help you maintain a healthy lawn. If you don't feel confident you can fix the sprinklers on your own, have a landscape professional repair your sprinkler system. This makes it easy to keep your grass green and beautiful at dry times of year.

Keep Pathways Clean

Pathways give the lawn definition and make it easy for guests to explore your yard. To keep pathways clean, pull weeds from the spaces between stones and use an edger to cut back overgrown grass. If the path is made of gravel, level and freshen the gravel as needed.

Freshen Mulch

Mulch can become faded and spread out over time. Freshening mulch helps give your garden beds a uniform quality. Use the fresh mulch to cover any bare patches in your flower beds and cover the most visible areas.

Weed Once Weekly

Weeding can be a time consuming chore if you only do it occasionally. Weeding once per week for a few minutes at a time can help keep the task manageable. Set aside time once each week to get rid of recent weeds. Throw away all old weeds when the chore is done.

Work With Your Real Estate Professional

A good real estate professional can provide advice for fixing up your lawn before your home goes on the market. It's important to remember that curb appeal is important even if you live in a popular neighbourhood like Coopers Crossing. To find out more about how you can improve your home's curb appeal in the next few months, contact your real estate professional for advice and ideas.

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