Landscapes need renovating just like homes

Your landscape is very much like your home's interior decor.

It grows old, sometimes tattered and torn, and needs updating from time to time. Sometimes, plantings need to be completely torn out and totally replaced. Sometimes, old porches, patios and decks just don't work any longer.

Landscape design classes typically teach that a landscape lasts for 10 to 15 years before it needs at least a partial redo. Sometimes, it's best to just start over from scratch and get the look you've always wanted and never achieved because there was never enough advance planning and an overall plan.

Landscape designers agree.

"When I started my business 21 years ago, there was a housing boom in Williamsburg, Va., and the bulk of my business was landscapes for new construction," says Peggy Krapf of Heart's Ease Landscape & Garden Design, http://www.HeartsEaseLandscape.com, and a certified designer through the Virginia Society of Landscape Designers, http://www.vsld.org.

"As time passed, it has now become primarily renovating old, existing landscapes."

Most landscapes need renovation for one of the following reasons, according to Krapf:

Poor initial design, which becomes more obvious as years progress (wrong plants in wrong places).

Bad workmanship and poorly chosen hardscaping/materials that don't stand the test of time.

Old age of plants and bad or improper regular pruning through the years.

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Landscapes need renovating just like homes