If summer in Dallas has you dreaming of spending more time outdoors with your family, you may be thinking about how to transform your landscape into a backyard oasis for relaxing, entertaining and living the good life. You might notice friends and neighbors donning garden gloves like the gauntlets of weekend warriors and bringing home potted plants from the hardware store to brighten up their yards.

And those optimistic weekend warriors? They're probably not enjoying time out in their yards as much as they could, since their results didn't exactly make for the best outdoor room.

Landscape Design Is More Than Plants

For people who truly enjoy gardening, there's nothing wrong with a DIY backyard landscape: The process can be very satisfying, and green thumbs with plenty of experience can get good results, especially with casual cottage gardens and vegetable plots.

Creating a customized landscape that enhances your home's unique design and positioning requires much more than just choosing a few plants, though. Your outdoor "rooms" should be at the same impeccable level of design as your indoor rooms, for starters. The flow of traffic, lighting, color palette and overall feel of the space are all important. To achieve the most satisfying results, a great landscaping design company will focus on your distinct needs to craft hardscapes, choose plants and incorporate the best of environmental design principles to create an outdoor space that blends seamlessly with your home and matches your style of living.

At LandPatterns, a DFW-based landscape design firm, we have spent 16 years perfecting our craftsmanship to turn our clients' vision into reality. When it comes to choosing a landscaping company, it can be overwhelming. Learn more about the criteria you should be following when choosing a landscaping design company here.