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With almost every day of the year a sunny one, many a golf enthusiast finds the Phoenix and Glendale area the perfect place to call home. There are many great golf courses around the valley so there is no shortage of fresh scenery to frame your game. Like any game that involves a ball, it requires a good deal of practice to get your swing right to score well on the course. From the excited beginner to the avid seasoned golfer, there are lots of reasons that adding backyard putting greens to home landscaping is popular.

Since phoenix and Glendale landscaping tends to be xeriscaping with super drought tolerant cacti, shrubs and small trees placed nicely amid ground cover stone, that touch of lushly green space can do wonders to lift the mood and brighten the entire area just beyond the patio’s edge. Unlike a regular grass lawn, you won’t have to deal with watering, fertilizing, mowing or over seeding with winter grasses. There is rarely any tasks you’ll need to do to keep that backyard putting green’s appearance always top notch. The added benefit gets even better, because this use of artificial turf is a heck of a lot more fun than plain old Phoenix lawns.

What better place to practice a difficult shot than just outside your own back door? You’ll find a lot more time available to perfect your aim and swing with the next hole a few steps away. Sneak in 15 minutes before heading out to the office or on errands daily and your score is sure to improve. Backyard putting greens can be a great addition to outdoor entertaining and offer a wonderful way to spend some quality moments with your kids or grandchildren. There’s no better time to start learning the fine game of golf than in the formative years.

One of the great things about backyard putting greens is that you can design the roll to meet the needs for whatever stroke or shot you really need to perfect. Since the base is fine gravel, it makes it possible to change the surface contours as your game progresses and new challenges arise to beat.

One thing to keep in mind about backyard putting greens is that you’ll want to insist on top quality artificial turf designed for golf. There are a range of different yarns available and density of fill too. The least expensive options will fade quickly, melt from the friction of repetitive putting in one spot and also fray as the filaments in the pile materials breaks down. High quality artificial turf and infill will also give you piece of mind as these products will be free of the health hazards that many lower priced alternatives have proven to have. They will also give you years more enjoyment from the investment. Something we’re sure is important for the value of your Phoenix or Glendale landscaping as a big part of your residential property’s curb appeal and easy marketability.

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Having a beautiful pool in the backyard means ensuring that it’s surroundings are in tune with the pool itself. Even the most impressive swimming pool design, will look less astounding if your Arizona pool landscaping doesn’t accent and play up it’s aesthetic values.

Like any other area of your yard in Scottsdale and Phoenix, pool decks are the largest portion of the elements that frame a swimming pool. While some will opt for pavers as the material used for their pool deck, here in Arizona, you’ll have very little issues with natural stone paving. There are a number of choices suitable for pool decks, each with it’s own special character and mood. You can select native Arizona flagstone as is shown in the image of this particular project, or travertine stone pavers among others.

Pool decks made of natural stone are always beautiful and very upscale, not to mention timeless in appeal. For some, the soft and multi-colored tones of travertine is just the right look. For others, the larger pieces found in irregular shaped flagstone provide a look that is bold and more suited to their taste and style.

Once you decide what your Scottsdale or Phoenix pool deck’s paving material will be, other hard elements used in the pool landscaping design. In this particular backyard, more natural stone has been incorporated to frame the poolside spa, as well as in the creation of waterfalls that double as swimming pool fountains. This is an excellent added asset to the stone paving of the pool deck.

Like the finishing touches on your courtyard design, Arizona pool landscaping is going to need some specially selected plants. Many backyard pools today are surrounded by masonry walls for instant privacy, or decorative fencing. Both of these hard landscape design elements are generally softened with climbing vines, flowering shrubs or architectural character desert plants and low growing ornamental trees.

Most homeowners choose a minimalistic style for the plantings in their pool landscaping. What better way is there to accomplish low maintenance landscaping in a space that is all about total relaxation? Obviously, more plants or fluffier plants will be highly desirable to those with a masonry wall framing their outdoor living spaces in the backyard. For those that have the natural desert landscape just beyond the backyard fence, less plant material is needed to soften the hardscape and add flowering or foliage beauty to their surrounding pool landscaping.

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There is little question that backyard landscaping and outdoor living spaces add value to a residential property’s value should you decide to sell your Arizona home. Features like shade ramadas and built in gas grills not only have good curb appeal, these popular additions to Phoenix patio designs also add much value to your lifestyle. Unlike other things one would add to their home or yard, paver patios will never look dated or go out of style. Like a patio made of natural stone, pavers are super low maintenance and will look as beautiful in ten or twenty years as they do the day your patio installation is completed.

The very nature of pavers makes them a wise investment. Should some sort of underground repair be needed or you decide to add onto paver patios in the future, they can be picked up and reused to put the paving back together again. Pavers fit together like a puzzle, making it possible to restore the patio surface and the repair would not be noticeable. One certainly can’t accomplish that with poured concrete.

Adding soft accents to the paver pattern can give you great focal points and break up a large expanse of paver attractively. The most common accent is a circle pattern. At times a homeowner would love to add an outdoor fire pit to their new patio, yet it just isn’t possible with their budget. By integrating a circle inlay where the fire pit is desired to be makes it easy to add this feature later on without the need to also extend the patio. To save on the amount of labor required to put in the fire pit in the future, it is wise to have the gas line installed under the patio. This means half the patio won’t need to be torn up and replaced when work on the fire pit begins. The same is true of water lines or electrical that would run beneath pavers to feed other features you may want to add later, such as spas or outdoor gas grills.

All over Scottsdale and Phoenix, patio designs that are most highly sought are those created with pavers. This isn’t surprising. They are easy to care for, beautiful and will never depreciate in value.

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