How to Landscape Your Candlewood Lake Home

How to Landscape Your Candlewood Lake Home

Landscaping your Candlewood Lake home can increase its value and attract more buyers should you wish to sell your waterfront property.

Proper planning is an essential step to successfully landscaping your Candlewood Lakefront home for sale. Balancing critical elements like maintenance, views, and waterfront access with environmental factors like erosion, weather, runoff, and wildlife habitats should be carefully considered when landscaping a waterfront property.

The best way to balance all these important elements is to leave as many of the existing plants as possible and choosing native plants for your landscaping.

Choosing low-growing and accent plants on the right parts of your lakefront property will allow you to enjoy very little landscaping for the years to come.

Here are other tips in landscaping your Candlewood Lake home for sale:

1. Know the regulations of your local Department of Natural Resource for waterfront property landscaping. These regulations can be very specific and extensive since their goal is to protect the water quality and wildlife habitat in Candlewood Lake Danbury CT. Check with your local government and don’t fall into the mistake of assuming that you are complying.

2. Leave as many of the existing plants as possible at the waterline. These established plants have developed root systems that help prevent erosion and may already serve as natural habitat for wildlife.

3. Choose native plants that are low-maintenance and thrive in the local environment. These plants also protect Candlewood Lake’s water quality by lessening the amount of pesticides and fertilizers you need to maintain your plants.

4. Place plants that thrive in wet, soggy soil in the riparian zone. The “riparian zone” is the area from the water to 2 feet inland. Plants with deep root systems are perfect to place in the riparian zone to help avoid erosion. Low-growing plants will also give you a better lakefront view.

5. Choose plants that do well in damp soil along the lower bank. The lower bank extends 2 to 10 feet beyond the riparian zone. Low bushes, small decorative trees, and ground covers make good plantings for the lower bank.

6. Plant more ornamental trees, shrubs, and ground cover along the upper bank. The upper bank extends from the lower bank to the extreme high water line. The plantings in the upper bank should be similar to those on the lower bank but should also be able to tolerate slightly drier soil conditions. The best way to determine the location of the extreme high water line is by observation or you can ask the locals.

Landscaping your Candlewood Lakefront home for sale the right way allows you to sell it at a better price while maintaining harmony with and protecting the natural surroundings and wildlife.

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