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One of the most difficult parts of planning your landscaping is visualizing what the project will look like when it's complete. When you're trying to design distinctive outdoor environments, you may have ideas about what you want them to look like, but putting all of your ideas together is another matter. Landscaping is also complicated because different plants grow at different rates, the overall look changes from season to season, and it's tough to know how your ideas will look from different angles and positions.

Exceptional landscaping does more than make a good impression. It's a gift to everyone who sees it. In addition, beautiful landscaping invites you outdoors and creates a perfect setting for socializing. Everyone wants beautiful outdoor living spaces, but it's easy to miss the mark. Don't make the following 4 mistakes when planning outdoor living spaces.

Fall Cleveland Landscaping Tips: Often times the enjoyment we get from planting flowers in our yard is immediate.  We plant them when they are small and watch them grow and fill out.  Bulbs take more patience, but are well worth the wait. After an almost colorless winter, what can cheer you up better than seeing your bulbs begin to sprout when the snow melts?  Bulbs are a great way to brighten up any garden, as long as you understand them and maintain them.

CLEVELAND, OHIO - The Lake Erie Nature & Science Center connected with twenty five volunteers from Ernst & Young and Green Impressions Landscaping Company from Sheffield on Friday, September 28^th, 2012. Mark & Terry Chapin teamed with Rich Kanary and directed the spirited volunteers in a day of pruning, weeding, soil amending and new plantings.

When the summer shine wears off, don't give up on your curb appeal. You don't have to let your Cleveland landscaping disintegrate just because your summer blossoms dry up and the leaves begin to fall. In fact, fall is an excellent time to enhance your home's curb appeal. Take advantage of fall's beautiful changes and colors by updating your home's exterior.

Looking for an interesting architectural structure to add visual interest to your landscaping? A cedar pergola creates shelter, provides climbing plants a center-stage place in your landscaping, and adds vertical appeal to your yard. You can buy made-to-order metal pergolas, but a sturdy, cedar pergola has many advantages.

Keeping up with your home's exterior and landscape can require a substantial investment year-after-year. This includes purchasing trees, shrubs, and flowers which add texture and color to increase your homes curb appeal. Adding hardscapes, from patios to natural stone work. Mulching almost every year to freshen your landscape beds and add definition. Edging your landscape beds, driveways and sidewalks to keep the grass from over-growing. Spending countless hours picking weeds and raking up leaves. You may have even spent the money to have an irrigation system installed and continue to invest in maintaining your lawn to keep the grass green and healthy during our hot dry summers. However, properly illuminating our homes exterior is often overlooked. Have you considered adding landscape lighting to extended your hours enjoying your outdoor living space?

VIDEO: Joe Schill of Green Impressions shares the new 2012 Holidynamics holiday lighting accessories such as pre-lit wreaths, garland, and decorative bows. Save time and money over natural pine garland, and still get the real evergreen look, feel, and texture.

Adding an outdoor fireplace to your landscaping gives your property a whole new dimension. Your entertaining options broaden, you gain a new living space without having to increase your square footage, and you increase the value and character of your home. These are some great benefits, but before you jump, evaluate these four design considerations to make sure an outdoor fireplace is right for you.

When planting trees, shrubs, and flowers; most homeowners consider it a task for the spring. However, What many people don't realize is that fall is a great time for planting, and there are many reasons to plant in the fall.