Landscape Projects For Home Sellers

Landscaping is a home improvement that appreciates over time.
Deciding which projects to tackle depends, in part, on how long you think you'll be around to enjoy the results.

If you're selling in a year or less, you may want to:

• Edge the beds. Cutting fresh edges where grass meets mulch makes the lawn look well kept. Also, if your foundation plants are overgrown, widening the beds will make the shrubs seem smaller.
  
  
• Nourish the grass. For truly lush turf, ideally you should start regular fertilizer treatments a year before listing the house. But you can green up the lawn with just a single application.
  
  
• Scatter color throughout. Blanket your yard with petunias, impatiens and other small annuals that will flower throughout the current growing season. Also invest a few hundred dollars in some larger perennials and in shrubs that stand at least four feet high.
  

Source: Money Magazine