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Sellers: Liven Up Your Landscaping With Flowers
There are many ways to upgrade when you're ready to sell your home, and one of the best is to improve your landscaping and, thereby, your curb appeal. Since we're headed into spring, that can be tricky; it'll be a while before we can reliably count on Mother Nature not to freeze new plantings. So what's a homeowner to do to spruce up the landscape in the spring for one of our Galion homes for sale? Our REALTORS® have learned some tricks from local landscapers and garden store experts, so here are a few that can help you add some color to your front yard before listing your home.
- Go with annuals.
If you need to plant right away, the easiest trick is adding color with annuals—those flowers you must replant yearly. Among the best annuals to plant are pansies or violas. Vibrantly colored pansies and violas are sure to catch the eye. The best time to plant them is early spring. Buy them in flats and plant them as borders in geometrically sculptured beds, windowboxes, or containers. Pansies usually become available in mid-March in Ohio. Pansies and violas can handle cool temperatures to 32 degrees, so just cover them up if it will be cooler. Some other great spring annuals are African daisies, sweet alyssums, snapdragons, dusty millers, and petunias. - Plant some colorful and hardy perennials.
Perennials, as opposed to annuals, are plants that return yearly. These days, many homeowners are planting native perennials, as they do well in our soil and with our weather (intermittently cold/warm spring and hot summer). The best time to plant perennials is in the fall, but planting them in spring should be fine as long as you protect them from frosts while they're getting started. Try black-eyed Susans, cardinal flowers, gayfeathers, columbines, and wild lupine (a great hummingbird attractor). - Trees to please any time of the year.
You should plant trees in the fall so they have a chance to get their root systems going over winter. That way, they may be ready to put on a spring display when warmer weather comes. What types of trees to plant? The best will be smaller trees that won't overwhelm your property with their height. Some of the best choices are red oak, planted somewhat distant from the house, as these grow tall; Japanese tree lilac, low maintenance with fragrant spring blossoms; crabapples, showy trees with spectacular blooms, requiring well-drained soil and full sun; and pawpaw, which produces the largest native fruit in the country. - Don't discount roses.
You can plant many kinds of shrubs in your landscape, but why wouldn't you plant a rose or two? Many cultivars do splendidly in colder landscapes these days, so don't be deterred. Plant roses from early spring to late fall. They typically bloom in spring, late summer, and fall. Plant them in full sun in well-drained soil. There are so many growth types—climbers, trees, multifloras, hybrid teas, and knockouts—it's best to do some rose homework before you choose.
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