Rethink Your Outdoor Spaces
Before you can begin landscaping, you have to learn the basic theories, or principles, of good landscaping. One of the foremost lessons that you must learn is the concept of outdoor spaces.
People are familiar with indoor rooms and what to do with the space inside the house. If you want to perform DIY landscaping, you must visualize what you can actually accomplish with outdoor spaces. To simplify the process, I want you to think of your backyard or front yard as an extension of your house. The space needs rooms, but what are those rooms going to be like? How are they going to look? Are the rooms primarily functional, or leaning towards primarily aesthetics?
Once you have been able to visualize what kind of outdoor rooms you want to create, you can begin organizing your project. It's important that you start small, so that landscaping will not overwhelm you. Don't try to landscape the entirety of your backyard in just one day. It's not going to happen.