What are the two trees in the lawn shown on one side of the house?

Why are you worrying about much needed landscaping on a home not yet purchased ?

Does the locale suit? The price? The beds and baths? The school system if you have or plan children?

There are ALWAYS attractive landscaping opportunities. The roof, trim, and siding color is a larger issue, for me: ) if we're talking exteriors.

You wouldn’t plan your landscaping around just some exterior photos of the house, or even before you moved in—you’d want to live there first and understand your views, sun patterns, even soil conditions.

And for exterior, no one knows the condition of the roof or other exterior materials.

If you are just considering, not sure why ask for landscaping plans. The property has a lot of potental. What you will want to do will likely be impacted by how you are living there after you move in. I wouldn't try to bite off more than the currently mowed open area. You will likely want some stabilizing on the hill slopes that are currently showing erosion or starting to. For sure would need a deck or something off that second floor door that currently has nothing. Your lifestyle there would lead to the rest.

The sky is the limiit for landscaping and I garee if the rest of the house is perfect for your family buy it and then hire a landscape architect to help get the best plan for overall landscaping. I like that the house is large on that size of land but it is not finished since I see ledger board for a deck and the entry for such a large home is too small and for sure the red trim and siding color do not work for me. Like every other aspect of buying a home live with this as it is for awhile to get some idea of what is needed.I would start by deciding what the plan is for 50 acres of land ?

Consider a large wraparound porch/deck.

The yard and surrounding area appears to have a substantial slope. If I was the one having to mow that amount of yard, I'd landscape with trees/beds to minimize the need to mow where the ground is sloped.

You will likely need a lot of storage for “ yard toys” like tractors and whatnot.

Some good questions are, what are the downsides of owning a large tract of land? What responsibilities will you have for different sections or topography? Certainly could be an exciting opportunity but also challenging.

Thanks to the few of you that actually responded to my landscaping question

Well, what do you want out of your landscaping? Are you going to be going farm mode and needs lots of gardens? Orchards? Terracing on the hillsides, paths or perhaps stairs? Outdoor spaces for living like decks, cooking areas, a pool? How much time or effort do you want to put into maintaining it- do you plan on having a service take care of it? Do you have building needs for storage of things, yard stuff, ect? Are you perhaps planning this as a venue, rental, hunting/rec lodge, where you will be living? Who is going to be using the yard?

I see a nice barn, forests and tillable valley land with what looks to be a nice house. Since it's setting in a valley there must be a creek or running someplace through the property and I'm telling ya right now, I WANT IT! 50 acres, last I checked they're not making anymore land.

What state is this place in? I'm going to search through the MLS listing to see if I can find it.

For the landscaping ideas im only looking for ideas surrounding the house, and not the rest of the land. i should have been more clear. thanks.

What zone and near city?

But really it doesn’t matter. It’s a question I doubt anyone can answer with SPECIFIC “ landscape ideas” because that all depends on the factors already raised , including beesneeds good design question list, and actual distance measurements , what doors and windows lead to what, grade, drainage, where can you supply water, what you are able to mow or mulch or rake.

I suggest you start with a front deck to give you some outside entertaining space.

Since the property is sloped in a variety of directions, IMO some terraced beds held in place by stone are appropriate. This could be a 10-year project because it's going to be expensive.

Planting on the slopes will help stabilize the ground.

To answer beesnees questions:

were going to be running an organic farm on the property, and also planning an apple orchard.

The property is in central Wisconsin.

i like the terraced lanscape look. what i had been thinking is the terraced look someone gave examples of above, with stairs that connect to a downstairs patio and firepit.

doors for the main floor deck now have a gate. well be doing landscaping before the deck.

thanks!

In case you misunderstood, I mean a deck at the front entry to make a welcoming entrance into the house from the driveway.

You might want a stripping shed- somewhere right up by the house to strip out of farm clothes and do tick checks. You will have lots of ticks to check. Might be there is a dedicated walk in area in that house for it. There might be a good spot in the garage or a seperated mud room in the house. If you plan on having rhinos and snomobiles or other for getting around, you might want an additional shed for those- even though the garage is attached you aren't likely to want those open all the time all year to access your access vehicles. You can stow your mowing vehicles in your barns, but it would probably be handier for that to be stowed up by the house where you will be mowing more. If you own your own snow plow equipment you might find it handier to stow it in the barns- especially if it's a tractor mount. Keep the snowblower in the attached garage, heh.

Lilacs and roses are often traditional. Lots of other flowers too. A large kitchen garden is nice, and handy. Overall you might want a more low maintenance landscaping- running the farm and orchard is likely going to suck up most of your gardening time.

If there are little kids in the mix, you might want to put up a fence on the hilltop till they get older and less likely to tumble down the hills. If you have outdoor pets, an invisible fence might be handy.

Depending on what those two newly planted trees are and possible deck and stairs plans, maybe cooking patio and a more scented garden around the doors that currently don't have deck and stairs. Depending on the prevailing winds, and especially during the winter, you might want to plan in some wind and snow break trees. Make sure you clear the driveway sides by 4-6 feet on either side. Mostly for the sake of snow plowing. You might need more space than that, depends on what the local snowfalls are. Try to make sure utility easements are clear too.

Depending on where your barns and other outbuildings are located on the property, you might want to create a work road between those areas and the house. It can be smaller than the driveway if you only use acccess vehicles and foot traffic. If those outbuildings are located along your driveway you won't need to plan on that so much.

Don't start terracing or plant removal from hillisides till you have the plans and work ability in place to do the reset. Erosion can happen fast and stripping a hill before you are ready to anchor it back in place is a poor idea.

What's the garbage service out there? Or is it haul your own? That could have a bit of an impact on planning by the house. Might be nothing if you can have a bin in the garage. Might be a something if you go to the dump every couple few weeks.

I still think you need to live there for awhile to see what is not only wanted but can be cared for with no pesticides since oraganic farming is the plan. I also think unless you have big bucks to pay someone to look after the pantings you will be way too busy with the farm to spend much time looking after fancy flower beds This is a job for a good landcspe designer who undertsnads oragnic gardening all its rules and regulations. I live in a place where all our growing is slowly becoming organic it is a long process we have huge orchards and vegetable frms