First of all, you should assess your landscaping needs. If you have a small yard with only a few flowerbeds, you probably do not need a landscaper. Even if you don't have a lot of time to work in your yard, a small yard can easily be landscaped and left alone. If you don't have time to work in your small yard, you can use bricks and stones or wood chips along the sides of your house instead of flowerbeds. You can put either plants that don't require much work, or statues or other decorative things in these stone beds. If you use only statues or self-growing plants that will come back each year, once your yard has been landscaped you don't need to worry about it.

However, if you are looking for something a little more complicated than flower or stone beds and bricks, you might want to turn to a professional landscaper. If you have lots of ideas for your large yard, or you want some professional help, you should hire someone. Some of the things that you might want the help of a professional landscaper for include installation of large ponds or fountains. These are things that might need to be installed professionally. Also, if you have a large yard and you want to have a landscaping scheme that requires many different things, a professional landscaper will be able to install and create moods and motifs all around your yard that match and look good together.

It is also important to consider hiring a professional landscaper if you are planting trees or large bushes, or if you need to re-do your lawn. If you are creating levels of lawn, or putting in ponds, or if you are installing a large area for a patio, professional landscapers will be able to give you plenty of good ideas and aid you in the installation of all of these things. A professional landscaper will be someone who can create a yard for you that meets all of your needs. If you can afford to have someone do this, it might be worth in the long run, as long as you can perform the upkeep on the landscaping the professional has done.