When selling your house, try to think as if you yourself could be buying this home. Set up a drip watering system, one that has a tap timer that is simple and easy to use. This day and age most people prefer to have a very easy maintenance free garden.

Spread Bark or Red Gum Chips over the ground to cover up unsightly areas. A garden that is clean, tidy and full of lush growth gives a relaxing atmosphere.

TIPS TO ENHANCE

Here are a few tips to enhance the look of your garden around the home.

• If you have a barbeque area, place some terracotta pots around planted with herbs (fresh grown herbs are the latest trends).
  
• Place large potted tubs around areas that look drab. Make sure colourful spring annuals are covering the top soil of the pots. Autumn onwards is the time to plant your spring flowering annuals (Pansy, Primula, Calendula etc.).
  
• Hang colourful hanging baskets (planted with trailing Lobelia or Flirt Pansy) along the verandah or under the pergola.
  
• To cover up next door's unsightly shed or clothes line, plant out some advanced shrubs. They may cost a bit but add value for money onto your house. If the back yard is open with very little shade, plant a large fast-growing shade tree in the middle of the back lawn.
  
• Plant the area where the lawn has died out under large trees with small colourful shrubs, clumps of perennials and annuals.
  
• Along the driveway or main path leading up to the house plant borders of spring flowering annuals.
  
• Most important of all prune back any dead branches of trees and shrubs and remove all weeds from the garden and driveways.
  
• To give the garden an intant colourful look, you can buy advanced flowering seedlings in full flowers ready to plant out in the garden or place on a table inside the home.