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Every article I write has to do with helping your lawn and landscape look better. I have given you tips and tricks ranging from fertilizing to trimming and even talked about rain and watering. But what is it all for?

The reward of having a nice lawn or landscape is all in the enjoyment. There is nothing like popping a new coffee pod into your single cup coffee maker and enjoying a fresh, piping hot cup of Joe while taking the scents of freshly cut grass up into your nose piece!

Not only does freshly trimmed grass smell good, so do well-tended flowers. I just love the spring time when my tulips come up starting in March and push beautiful fragrance across my yard and into the neighborhood. In addition, the magnolia tree in my front yard blooms profusely in mid-April and offers a light pink color pop coupled with a sweet fragrance unmatched in nature. That is a great reward.

I also have to mention the ego rewards that go along with having a well-tended lawn and landscape. I just love it when I see a car roll by my house and slow down to check out the well-defined striping in my lawn. I am big on making those stripes and get a lot of questions about how to do it from people in my neighborhood.

I also enjoy shaping and trimming my trees and shrubs. Now I don’t go out and carve Mickey Mouse ears in my bushes or anything too crazy like that, but I do take time and make sure they look right. There are two schools of thought here and I actually do a little of both.

With a lot of deciduous trees and shrubs, you can keep a natural look while exposing some of the interesting bark patterns. But with evergreens, you can go for the tightly shaped look. Some people like their evergreens to be trimmed like a well-groomed poodle.
Whichever way you choose, the rewards are having your house looking nice from up close and afar.

The last reward you get with keeping your lawn and landscape in good shape is the overall health and value plants add. When you go to sell your home someday, a nice lawn and healthy landscape will give you curb appeal. In addition, a well-tended landscape tells potential buyers that you care about your place, and gives them a sense that they are buying quality.

I hope these ideas will get you fired up to have a nice lawn and landscape: not just out of sheer hard work, but because of the benefits they bring. You might also get a whole new outlook on the enjoyment that single cup coffee brings you every morning.

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