How to Best Use Your Outdoor Space in Winter

Even during the cooler days of winter, it’s important not to neglect your landscape. You can still use your outdoor areas to the fullest with a little creativity, even if it’s not as warm as you’d like. With the right outdoor living area, you don’t have to call it a day when the sun sets, or bring the kids in from playing when it gets dark or too cold.

There are many ways to still enjoy your backyard in the midst of winter. Here’s how you can maximize your landscape.

Install a Fire Pit

Nothing says toasty like warming your hands by the fire, telling stories, roasting marshmallows and enjoying good company like a fire pit. Add plenty of comfy seating to accommodate guests, choosing from a wide range of styles, functionalities, and levels. Customizing your fire pit and patio area has never been easier. Now you can utilize your backyard all year long with the ability to harness fire.

Utilize All Open Spaces

Maximize all available space. If you’re no longer using the pool toys, chairs, lounges and potted summer plants, put them away or cover them for the season so you have more room to put other things more appropriate for winter. Get creative with a winter playscape for the kids, or add some nature-enticing elements such as bird and squirrel feeders. Then sit back and watch the wildlife frolic in your backyard.

Add some landscape lighting so you can enjoy your yard after dark safely and comfortably.

Incorporate Plants

Many plants thrive in colder weather, such as blue potted spruce, cypress topiary, boxwood hedges, and winter gem boxwood. Provided they are planted above ground, these plants can thrive, adding rich colors and greenery to your landscape in a season that can otherwise be pretty drab.

Plants that do well in winter in Texas include:

• Pansies
• Snapdragons
• Sweet alyssum
• Petunias
• Ornamental kale and cabbage
• Winter honeysuckle

Bring the Indoors Out

If you really love the outdoors and want to take advantage of every moment, even in winter, why not add a complete outdoor living space to your backyard? You can partially enclose it, add a pergola, put in a retaining wall with patio, add an outdoor kitchen with pizza oven, and even some comfy couches for seating. Outdoor heaters can make things extra toasty. There’s really no limit to what you can do with your backyard, even during a Dallas winter.

Contact Bare Roots Landscape Solutions

We can help you get creative! To get a free quote on your wintertime landscape project, contact us toll free at 866-616-3097. And if you’ve been thinking of adding in a heated pool so you can use it all season long, we can help with that too.

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