Showing posts with label curb appeal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curb appeal. Show all posts

Monday, February 29, 2016

Where to Buy Plants Online for Your Garden


Garden lovers are always excited to have beautiful plants in their home garden. You may have planned for a colorful landscape at your home but the biggest problem is that you often have limited options around us to buy different varieties of plants. Actually there are lots of varieties of flowering shrubs, perennials, ground covers, as well as indoor and more outdoor plants; one can make selection as per weather conditions of surrounding area and space in his house. Once you have identified sufficient space in your garden then you can buy your plant varieties online; it might seem strange to buy plants from the internet but actually there are venders who are ready to serve you for complete landscaping as plants are the best option for adding curb appeal to your house. If you are searching for top rated plant nursery websites that can provide you quality and variety of plants for complete home landscaping then www.greenwoodnursery.com can be one of the best online nurseries for you.

This website is preferred by plant lovers throughout the United States for their great collection of plants and trustworthy services. One of the best things to know about this website is their guaranteed services with option to make open selection of plants from well managed online nursery. Here you will be able to get huge list of plants ranging from A to Z . Some of the best flowering collections of this website are Perennials, Shrubs, Roses, trees, ground covers, and many more. 

GreenwoodNursery.com can help make your gardening ideas become a reality. They welcome bulk plant orders and are well known for their friendly assistance. This best online plant nursery provides you amazing opportunity to lead your go green theme on large scale. If you are interested to buy a unique collection of garden plants then peruse their online plant catalogs

If you are just starting with your new garden then you will want to buy flowering plants for seasonal color.  You can find combinations of perennials, trees and shrubs at affordable garden plant prices

This online nursery will provide you some of the best offers for your orders of plants. www.greenwoodnursery.com provides you best option to add more beauty and privacy to your wonderful landscape around your house and backyard. With a 100 percent safe and secure shopping environment here you can place orders for small fruiting plants, vines, shrubs, trees, roses, ground covers, shade perennials and more. You might be interested to collect medicinal plants for your nursery; Greenwood Nursery can provide you best collection of plants that have various medicinal benefits. If you are thinking to create a nature friendly garden at your home, roof or backyard then this website provides you best opportunity to order your seasonal plants and flowers. Some of the beautiful plant packages are designed to serve your balcony, green corners and room areas with most beautiful collection of plants.


With changing lifestyle we are becoming busier with our work schedule and there is less time to spend outside in our gardens. It is best time to create your garden space that can be dedicated for beautiful flowering plants only. Order your favorite plants from this online plant store.  Greenwood Nursery will provide you with beautifully healthy plants at the most affordable plant prices and the best customer service.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

How Home Landscape Design Affects the Real Estate Value


Home landscaping is simply, transforming, rearranging, and improving the curb appeal features of the grounds around your home into a more pleasant piece of property from the aesthetic standpoint and for practical use. For example, the garden should have plants or grasses; or the big tree in your backyard needs to be trimmed; or planting complementary foundation plants along the foundation of the house. These decisions can provide a big boost on the value of your real estate. This is especially useful if you plan to list your home for sale.

A neat, attractive home landscape design can increase the value of the home by as much as 15%. So if you have a $300,000 piece of real estate, you've just earned another $45,000 by just adding well designed landscaping. The increased value of your home will not be seen until you decide to place it on the market. The viability of your home does not only lie on the home itself but on the taste of the potential buyers. In other words, an overly personalized home landscape can be expensive but not really viable compared to simple yet attractive design.  The more detailed the landscape, the more work involved in maintaining it.

It is, therefore, important to make sure that you know what type of home landscaping design is more appealing to homebuyers in a span of years so that you keep the value of your home up and at the same time, you attract homebuyers whenever you do decide to sell it.  

English: Part of a landscape and design projec...
English: Part of a landscape and design project by M. D. Vaden of Oregon, in Beaverton, Oregon, with a tree, shrubs, ground covers and ornamental grasses (including blue fescue, Japanese snowbell tree and Nandina domestica 'Gulf Stream'. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Take note of the following tips to learn the best home landscaping designs for the market:
  •  Internet, books, magazines, and television shows provide great information about the kinds of landscaping designs that are currently selling.
  • Observe home landscapes of other homes in similar neighborhoods. Don’t over landscape for your neighborhood.
  • Seek professional help from people in the landscape design business. Hiring a landscape architect for a do-it-yourself landscape design can be well worth the hourly fee.
  • If you don’t want to hire professionals, then research and read articles on the basics of landscape design.
  • Ask your real estate agent what is normal landscape for your pricing range and what are the latest gardening trends on home design.
You may have followed these tips but you cannot fully guarantee that your landscape design will help your home sell. Take note that your potential buyers seek other factors other than design:
  • Special elements, such as waterfalls, fountains, and artificial ponds are some of the most sought after landscape elements that buyers look for. It is surely an attention grabber.
  • Low maintenance home landscape design. Different buyers will have different tastes when it comes to the design, but they will surely look for one thing: a low maintenance home landscape design.
  • Year-round visual interests. Shrubs, evergreens and other plants that grow all year round are great addition to your garden since buyers usually look for homes that grow plants that never fade during the winter.
Selling your home must start from the outside with curb appeal. That is why it is very important that you have a good landscape design to increase not only the value of your home, but also the viability of it. 

How Home Landscape Design Affects the Real Estate Value by Greenwood Nursery.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Landscape tips for a faster home sale

If you are hoping to sell your house during these challenging economic times, remember the old saying: you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

When it comes to real estate, that’s always been true. But in a tough economy, there are more houses than usual on the market and fewer buyers. Those buyers that are out there are almost spoiled for choice: a large number of available homes, probably offered at fairly competitive prices.

To make matters worse, slow home sales mean that houses that might have been snapped up quite quickly a couple of years ago and languishing on the market much longer now. If you’ve decided to sell your home, take a look around your neighborhood. You will probably notice quite a number of For Sale signs in the front yards. These homes all share the same basic benefits as yours, such as the same school district, proximity to the same transportation or commuter drive times. They might even have been built by the same builder in a very similar style to yours.

Frankly, you’ve got a lot of competition.

Potential buyers will drive around neighborhoods that interest them. They will glance at a home with a yard sign for perhaps 3 to 5 seconds before moving on. Unless they see a reason to linger. In those few seconds, they have formed opinions as to whether the home meets their personal definition of ‘attractive.’

Is it neat and well-kept? Is the lawn lush and nicely trimmed? Are the shrubs neatly shaped and not obscuring the windows? Is the walkway clean and weed-free? Is the entryway welcoming? Could we live there without having to invest in landscape upgrades? Most of all, they are deciding if this home could provide them with pride of ownership. Would we feel proud to have friends and family visit us here?

And all this in about 3 to 5 seconds… before they pass by your home without ever looking inside and move on down the street!

But there IS good news. You can make your home stand out from the crowd and you don’t have to spend a fortune to do it.

First of all, go out and look at your home from the street, they way a prospective buyer would see it.

If shrubs have grown to the point where they are obscuring the front of the house, trim them back. If necessary, remove them altogether and replace them with fresh, attractive evergreen shrubs, such as Boxwood Winter Gem, colorful hydrangeas or the dense rounded Red Barberry.

Add some annuals to put splashes of bright color in front of the shrubs. Pick up a few bags of dark mulch and carefully layer it around the shrubs and annuals. The contrast will make the colors pop!

How about the lawn? Keep it mowed (no shorter than three inches) and watered (about once or twice a week) so it looks green and lush. Edging the lawn, where it meets the flower beds, is worthwhile as it projects the impression that this house has been well cared for, so the inside should be as neat as the exterior.

Look at the entryway and front porch. Place a couple of containers there and add some economical plants. Pick containers that match the scale of your porch, neither too small and insignificant nor too large and overpowering. Plant some perennials such as geraniums, daylilies and varieties of Achillea including Summer Berries and Moonshine. Add a few annuals for instant color.

Look down at the walkway. Keep it swept and clean. If weeds are growing up through the pavers pull them out or kill them by spraying with vinegar.

Of course, you’ll want to be sure that the area is free of toys, bicycles and any items that distract the eye.

If you feel that some of these tasks are beyond your capabilities, such as mulching and lawn edging, call in a local landscaping service. A one-time service would not be too expensive and would be seen as a real investment when your home sells.

Remember, all you can really do is “put the odds in your favor” by giving your home a slight edge in the eyes of prospective buyers.

Visit GreenwoodNursery.com for a great selection of landscape and garden plants. Plus check out our garden ideas for theme and specific plants to meet your planting needs.