Top 3 Reasons for you to love Productive Landscape

Productive landscape- just what the heck is it?  According to Team Maneely, with Homesmart Fine Homes and Land, productive landscaping is anything added to your landscape that produces a benefit for the homeowner.  It can be as simple as a fast growing shade tree creating a little relief from the intense mountain sun, or as involved as a floral arrangement used to attract hummingbirds.

For Team Maneely, we prefer to have a landscape that helps produce food for our family.  Our backyard contains six different fruit trees.  We have two peach, two cherry, an apple and a pear.   And this year our cherry crop is amazing, and it looks like the apple and peaches are well on their way too.  The poor pear just never seems to grow beyond microscopic size.  Along with our fruit trees we have an herb garden complete with rosemary, thyme, and mint, a large section of arugula, and a thorn free blackberry shrub .  We have been busy preserving our cherry harvest by canning. 

TOP THREE REASONS TO LOVE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE

3.)  Give your property an edge and added value by having your landscape serve a unique purpose.  Love butterflies?  Make sure to incorporate the flowers they seek.  Enjoy bird watching? Include a feeder or bath to attract them.  Fancy yourself an Italian foodie?  Plant some tomatoes and make a sauce to knock the socks off your guests.  If you enjoy it, it is likely that others will too!

2.) Productive landscape creates a unique space.  I remember watching Dennis the Menace as a child and his affable elder neighbor Wilson spent a great amount of time with his prize garden.  At some point he even had created an award winning space as deemed by the garden society.  If you have a productive landscape chances are you have created a unique space that can be used as a selling feature for your real estate agent to highlight in marketing your property to others.   

1.)  Landscape that is productive serves a greater purpose.  We a little thought and ingenuity, you can have space that is even "brown thumb" friendly and easy to maintain but still serves a greater purpose.  For instance, here in Prescott Arizona, we conserve water.  Maybe your productive landscape are plants that are drought tolerant.  Perhaps you have added a water cistern to help collect rainwater for landscaping.  Both the rainwater collection and drought tolerant plants are productive landscape and will serve a greater purpose for potential buyers.