1. The document provides 5 tips and images for landscaping inspiration, including doing research on style and budget, drawing a plan, consulting with landscaping professionals, and ordering supplies in advance.
2. It highlights different landscaping project examples like creating an oasis with trees and seating around a pool area, a romantic English cottage garden, and enhancing a home's curb appeal with stone steps and plantings.
3. The document encourages capitalizing on outdoor space for as long as possible each year, whether with patios, fire features, or a secret garden pathway.
2. With frigid weather and blowing snow, thoughts turn to
green gardens filled with beautiful flowers, greenery and
patios with cool drinks. What are your spring plans?
January is the best time to start, because spring will be
here before you know it, and the best landscapers &
hardscapers in Mississauga book early.
3. At Toemar, we make planning easy with these five basic
steps:
1. Do your research including both style and functional
design. For example, it’s just as important to make sure
your pathway placement is right for the look as for usage
and avoiding water accumulation
4. 2. Set a budget. This is the bottom line: what you can afford
to spend on your project will dictate the extent of your
plans. This might seem like an obvious statement but it’s
always interesting how every spring, people have BIG
projects and haven’t given a thought to how it will be
paid for. If you need to meet with the bank, now is the
time…
5. 3. Draw out your plan. Sketch out what plants, walls, or
other ornaments you will want to add. Don’t forget to
include measurements, including grade and slope, where it
impacts the project. It doesn’t need to be exact, that’s your
landscaper’s job, but it will make it much easier for your
team to quote and to make sure everyone is on the same
page
4. Pop by Toemar, and talk to us. Together we can see if
your plans match your budget!
6. 5. If you are going it alone, order everything you’ll need in
advance, so that when spring arrives, you’re ready to go.
If you’re worried about storing the supplies, talk to us.
We’re experts in that area
7. Toemar has a useful planning tool that you can use to create
the landscaping project you’ve always wanted.
It includes lists of items you’ll need and how to measure
to ensure that you’re getting an accurate plan of what you
want to accomplish. Our planning tool is help you turn a
dreary January afternoon into a beautiful space you can
enjoy with family and friends come May!
8. Pool Area Landscaping
The right landscaping can turn a pool area into an oasis in the city.
The trees create shade (in Mississauga, imagine lovely pines or
junipers instead of palm trees) and that sense that you’re in another
world. Strategically placed seating areas create a welcoming
ambiance for neighbours to catch up and enjoy a little downtime.
9. A Romantic Landscape
Imagine your backyard looking like a quiet English country
cottage. Whimsical and romantic, this design below, is quite easy.
Toemar is carries a wide variety of pebbles and pavers, plus all the
materials to stabilize this kind of design, like limestone and
landscaping material. Add climbing vines, plants and trellises for a
final touch.
10. Walls, Steps And Spacing In
Your Landscaping
Adding rocks and boulders to create walls can take a large yard and
add some smaller, more intimate spaces to enjoy and decorate with
perennials, annuals and greenery of all types. Each season, we
receive a large shipment of rocks from local quarries and yes, we
DO deliver!
11. Walls, Steps And Spacing In
Your Landscaping
Looking to save on groceries this year? Or perhaps reduce
chemicals in your diet. Why not create a gorgeous kitchen
garden with raised beds? A well-planned old-fashioned
garden will provide visual interest and edibles all season,
and is a source of wonderment for children. Preparing the
right kind of soil is key, especially if this is the first time
you’ve turned the earth over. Adding a garden path makes
watering and weeding easier. Just remember to fence it off,
or create a smaller second garden for the rabbits!
12. Walls, Steps And Spacing In
Your Landscaping
Adding stone steps leading up to the front of your home
can completely enhance the front view and landscape.
Surrounding those steps with
elevated plantings is welcoming and visually interesting.
This image below uses a combination of hidden garden
walls, pavers and natural boulders (all available at
Toemar.) This is one of the fastest ways to amp up your
home’s curb appeal and therefore its resale value…
13. Patios For An Outdoor Living
Landscape That Wows
Living in Mississauga means living through winter weather for a
good third of the year, but the way see it, it’s all the more reason to
capitalize on the outdoor living options of your home, for as long as
you can!
14. Patios For An Outdoor Living
Landscape That Wows
Creating a patio that is both private and inviting is not
difficult, but it does require some planning so why be
satisfied with the four months Mother Natures gives us?
Expand the seasons by adding both light and heat sources
in early spring and late autumn. Faux faur throws over
your patio furniture will create immediate warmth and
ambience and an outdoor fireplace or chimenea is a lovely
focal point.
15. For Landscaping That Is A Little
Out Of The Ordinary
Imagine creating a space in your backyard that looks like the
entrance to a secret garden. It’s every childhood fantasy come to
life! In other words, the landscape you choose doesn’t have to be
fussy or precise. Instead, it can be a little wild, creating a little
scope for the imagination! Where does that path lead?
16. For Landscaping That Is A Little
Out Of The Ordinary
However you plan your landscaping, whether front or back
yard, poolside or just a place to put up your feet at the end
of the day, all it takes is a little time and effort. The results
will be well worth it!