Your Garden Coach


	Tips to Increase Curb Appeal If you are staging your home, these tips from Your Garden Coach, Cindy Bickerton, can start you on an important path to great curb appeal. Drive up, oogle, stop car, walk in – THAT’s what you want prospective buyers to do. Remove all dead plant matter. Pitch trashy items while you are in the mood. Prune bushes and trees for first, dead and disease, then for design. Make it look easy to live in – Tidy. Neat garden edges. If some of your perennials need splitting – give away excess to friends or into the garage sale you might be having. Weeding done. Fresh mulch applied. These simple tasks help potential buyers warm up to your home. Are your gardens safe? Are scratchy or thorny plants located where they can cause passersby discomfort? If so, get rid of junipers along walkways (oh so pretty when young...oh such a bother when past their best-before date). In this case... if in doubt – take it out. Beware the Kitch Bug – Unlike crawling bugs, kitch is an older phrase referring to knick knacks. Some folk art or larger, interesting signature rocks are fine... too much looks tatty. If you love leprechauns and bunnies and and and... put some in storage and moderate what you leave in gardens of a home you have for sale. Just as Susan Phillips, home stager extra-ordinaire, would tell you for the inside... Timing is everything – Right now, bidding wars are common this year, meaning that containers to brighten up your entry should only be needed for the current season. If, however, you need ideas in seasons when you are stumped about what to plant, or in light situations you aren’t comfortable with, you’ve only to ask. We love creating containers to greet homeowners and guests. Any time of the year.
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