My wife & I recently purchased a new house and while the backyard isn't a total mess, it needs some work. Both because the prior owner was elderly with limited abilities, but also because we want to make it a space we really enjoy.
Some of the major things:
- The lawn is very uneven.
- The yard is a mix of grass & clover.
- There are various pockets of shrubbery that's overgrown, in particular one area we'd like to return to simple grass (so we could use it for socializing, grilling, etc.)
I know one option is to hire a landscape architect, but for now we'd rather keep it simple & do it ourselves. (Learning would be part of the fun, enable us to tweak it, and if we do get an architect, we'd have a better sense of what we want.)
The thing is, where to start!
Any experienced hands have suggestions on must-read books, websites or any resources we should avail ourselves off? (I know planning will be an important step.)
