A well-designed and executed landscape can transform your yard into a thing of beauty. According to Landscape Business, about 40% of homeowners with yards hired a landscape designer during the past year. If you're among the many looking to change your landscape, here are five of the best features to consider.

1. Incorporate Elevation Changes

A flat or gently sloping yard and landscape doesn't create the most beautiful landscape. Instead, a landscape designer can incorporate retaining walls, rock gardens, and other features that help to change elevations. Terraces, elevated gardens, and similar features can help to break up the line of sight and give people something to focus on while viewing your landscape.

2. Create Elegantly Curving Drives and Walkways

Few things are more effective at drawing attention to your landscape than curving lines. Curving lines that cut off the line of sight add a sense of mystery about what is just out of sight. If you have a long driveway, adding curves, trees, and shrubs helps to beautify the entrance to your property. The same is true of walkways to and around your home.

3. Hide Unsightly Items

Some outdoor items are necessary but relatively unsightly. An outdoor central air conditioning unit is a perfect example. It's not the best to look at, but a skilled landscape designer can use bushes, shrubs, or tall and decorative grass to hide it. Downspouts and other functional but bland features could also be hidden behind more attractive landscape features.

4. Plan for Changing Seasons

An especially good landscape designer will take into consideration all four seasons and what will look and work the best during each. Some plants might bloom during early spring followed by late spring. The summertime enables yet more plants to reach their peak before ebbing away during the fall. Carefully considering the colors of leaves during the fall and planting flowering plants that thrive in cooler weather can make the fall give your landscape yet another new look.

5. Use Contrasting Colors

It's important to change the colors so that the eye is drawn to particular features. Sure, a large, green lawn is great but sometimes it can be a bit boring. Breaking it up with flower gardens and other features can turn the yard into a backdrop for your most beautiful features. Contrasting colors can completely transform the look of your landscape.

You can call or visit A Superior Design Co to learn more about landscape design and how to make your landscape more beautiful. We offer a variety of services from excavations to outdoor kitchens. Whatever you need to be done to your yard, we'll be more than happy to help!