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How to Plant Landscape Plants

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Landscape plants can help create a wonderful environment outside your house. They can create havens of peacefulness, wonderful palettes of color, whatever your heart desires. However, there's a few things to consider. Read this eHow to learn more.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Step1

Determine your climate zone. This is an important step, because it can limit what landscape plants you can plant. Those that do well down south will not do well in Alaska.

Step2

Examine the landscape where you intend to place your plants. Is the soil dry or wet? Is it acidic, or is it rich with nutrients? Is your soil mostly clay, or does it drain well? Some of this you can control, but if you intend on planting a lot of landscape plants, do you wish to send a lot of money changing the soil and drainage, or do you wish to buy landscape plants that are suited to the environment of your land.

Step3

Check out the amount of light the area in which you will be planting your landscape plants. Does the area get a lot of sun or is it shaded for most of the day? Or, is the area a mix of both?

Step4

Make a plan for the area where you wish to plant your landscape plants. Generally speaking, you could have the lower plants in the front, and the higher plants toward the back, but the varieties of plantings and the colors are endless.

Step5

Go to gardens in the area or look online at famous gardens. This can help you get an idea for your own gardens and landscape.

Step6

Travel to your local nurseries and look at all of the plants that are available that meet your criteria (the steps above). You can even travel to local farms or nurseries that specialize in unusual plants. These can be found in the phone book, or online by state under "nurseries."

Step7

Plant your landscape plants after preparing your area. The techniques you use will vary widely based upon the type of plants you have chosen and the layout of your landscape. Enjoy your new plant-filled space.