Many Americans believe their yard is essential to maintaining a good image for the public and for neighbors to see the house and believe that the inside of the house is as good looking as the outside. A well-manicured lawn, grass that is green and well-kept, trees that are not ungainly and take up a lot of space, bushes that are trimmed all help.

All of those help to maintain an image that is in line with the images often seen in pictures of neighborhoods that are beautiful and well-kept, seemingly in all seasons. But coming up with lawn like that is difficult and time-consuming, unless the work is outsourced to a landscaping company.

It is possible for an individual to establish a lawn of that magnitude in terms of color and brightness, though it requires a great deal of tools and an investment that may be less than the amount given to a landscaping company but still requiring hours that could have been devoted to something else.

Establishing a lawn requires many different things. The first step many people might do is to ascertain the quality of the lawn in terms of grass size, grass thickness, the shape of the bushes, how ungainly the trees are and so forth. The grass thickness may be a serious issue that requires fertilizer to get the grass to grow well.

There also might be weeds that need to be pulled out or killed with a kind of weed killer. Twigs may have to be picked up, pine cones may have to be picked up, rocks may have to be picked up, and other things may have to be picked up. Bushes that are overgrown and unwieldy may have to be trimmed using a hedge trimmer.

Hedge trimmers can either be motorized, electric, or hand held (hand powered). These trimming agents can take a bush from a large amount of branches to a smaller amount of branches. It is best to be careful around the bushes as they may have thorns. It’s helpful to wear gloves that are thick in order to stay away from being prodded.

A lawnmower is generally used to maintain the height of the grass after it has been made lush and thick. A lawn mower can be battery powered, gas powered, or hand powered (though these generally aren’t used much anymore). The battery powered land mowers run on electricity but have to be charged before using. It is possible for them to run out.

A gas lawn mower has to be filled with gas before being used. It is possible for the lawn mower to have to be primed by pressing a (usually red) button multiple times to get the gas flowing into the engine before the start. When the start happens, the gas powered lawn mower will roar to life and will be able to go the distance with the right amount of gas.

For those that have their lawn situations sorted out in terms of the nature involved, it is always possible to put up lights in the backyard or front yard. These lights can be along stone paths, which is called path lighting, around ponds in the backyard, which is called pond lighting, and across patios, which is called patio lighting.

There are many benefits of landscape lighting. A person and their family will be able to sit outside on the patio in the dark and be able to see clearly. The landscape will look brighter and more luxurious compared to landscapes without lighting. And more. Landscape lighting installation is done by a person, sometimes by a company.

Landscape lighting installation, if the situation is complicated, could be done by an experienced professional. Landscape lighting installation, if simple, can be done by a person who is inexperienced. Landscape lighting installation should be done with caution around a pond.

There are some statistics that help understanding this subject matter.

• 69% of homeowners say that they use their outdoor spaces for relaxing.
• 83% of Americans think having a yard is important and 90% of those with a yard think it is important that it is also well-maintained.
• 73% of homeowners hired a professional for an outdoor project in 2016.

These are all very important things to consider when putting lights up on a lawn.