How to Improve Home Security with Landscaping

We all worry about our home security. You home is your castle where you store your valuables and where your family lives. There's the common ways of increasing home security, but you can also improve the security of your property with landscaping. Today we're going to share some of the best ideas for landscaping for home security!

Landscaping for home security has multiple benefits. You're improving your home security, and you're improving your property's landscaping which in turn can increase property value. Here's a video of Terry McNair sharing some tips about landscaping for home security. Watch it and then we'll go into further detail below.

Improve Security with Plants

First, we'll discuss how plants can help you secure your home. There are several ways to use plants in your landscape to improve home security. You can add certain plants to make areas difficult to access and create barriers. How you maintain your plants can also affect your home security.

Trim to Eliminate Hiding Spots

Having overgrown bushes around your property creates natural hiding spots. If they are right up next to the house, it can provide cover for potential thieves to break in without the risk of being seen. They can also hide in bushes to ambush you when you're coming home at night or leaving in the morning.

If you have tree limbs hanging over the roof of your home, these can provide access to second story windows if you have any. These limbs should be trimmed away from the house. This will also reduce the chance of home damage during storms.

Plant Bushes with Thorns

Placing bushes with thorns strategically around your property is a great way to improve home security. These plants create a natural form of barbed wire, but are much more visually appealing than actual barbed wire. If you want to plant bushes near windows or other potential access points, using thorn bushes is the way to go. Even bushes with thorns should still be kept well pruned so they can't be hiding spots as we discussed above.

Install Landscape Lighting

Low voltage landscape lighting is an elegant and effective outdoor lighting option for your property. Unlike floodlights, landscape lighting systems look great while also improving home security.

Landscape lighting will provide illumination around your house so that you don't have to come home in the dark. It also eliminates the cover of darkness that prowlers might use to hide themselves. Landscape lighting systems are low-voltage lights, so they won't run your electric bill up. You can also set the time when your landscape lights turn on and off. Many systems offer additional controls. Some can even be controlled from an app on your smartphone.

Add Rocks or Gravel to Pathways

Using rocks or gravel to create pathways will increase the noise caused by someone walking on the path. You can use small egg rock stones with large flagstones to create a stepping stone style pathway. Place edging along the sides of the path to keep all the rocks in the path area. When someone walks down the path, they will likely kick and crunch rocks, creating noise. This is an easy, inconspicuous way of improving your home security. 

Keep Your Property Maintained

Aside from eliminating hiding places by trimming bushes, keeping your property maintained overall is important to keeping your home secure. Having a well maintained yard shows that the property is occupied and cared for. If your house looks like it isn't occupied for several months out of the year, criminals may think they can get away with breaking in during that time.

We know that home security is important to everyone. These tips are a few ideas to help you improve the security of your property through landscaping. If you live in Middle Georgia around Macon and Warner Robins, let us know if we can help you with your landscaping to help secure your home!

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