How Landscaping Affects Your Home’s Value

By focusing on your landscape’s design, varying the plants and shrub sizes and colors, and diversifying the plant life itself, you can increase your home’s overall value.

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If you’re a homeowner, you’ve probably wondered if the money you put into your landscaping is worth it. The answer to that question might surprise you.

Sometimes homeowners assume that an interior project is going to provide much more bang for their buck, but a recent study from Virginia Tech found that your landscaping is worth as much as 15% of your home’s value. For your landscaping to be worth that much, though, there are a few key elements you have to focus on:

1. The landscape’s design. 
2. Varying the plant and shrub sizes and colors.
3. Diversifying the plant life itself. 

In the aforementioned study, they found that if you key in on those three things on a $50,000 house and do them well, that home’s value could increase from between $8,500 to as much as $19,000. 

What do I mean by landscape design? I mean that you don’t want to plant a bunch of trees, bushes, and shrubs together without any kind of layout in mind. What you want to do is minimize the long-term maintenance and avoid that cluttered, overgrown look that often happens without any design plan.

Landscaping the right way can increase your home’s value by as much as 15%.

If you want your house to feature accentuated curb appeal, think about the space between your plants. Vary that space with both smaller and larger plants, shrubs, and trees. Vary the color of them as well. Not only will this accomplish an uncluttered look, but it will also give these plants room to grow. Additionally, mixing in some wildflowers here and there is always a great idea. Wildflower variety packs will give you a burst of color at different times throughout the spring and summer.

You can diversify your plants by making sure they’re not all the same style. For example, mix and match shrubs based on the kinds of leaves it has. Here in Tucson, you can’t go wrong with adding a cactus or some other kind of desert flora. 

The point of these strategies is to match the landscaping to your home size and your yard size. If you do this, you will get the most bang for your buck and never have to wonder again if you’ll be getting your investment back.  

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