Landscaping Ideas

Lawn Care Tips
  • Organic Lawn Care: While many men and women enjoy working and spending time in their gardens, they tend to avoid the subject of lawn care. These men and women simply find caring for the ...
  • Controlling Erosion: There are several good reasons to manage the drainage in your yard and one of the most important reasons is to control erosion. Water, not draining properly, can cause several problems, ...
  • Lawn Mowing Tips: Most people feel that mowing their lawn short will lessen the frequency of mowing. This practice is often the cause of lawn deterioration, as is mowing your lawn when it is ...
  • How to Aerate the Lawn: Do you really need to aerate your yard? If so, when is the best time to aerate your lawn? These are two common questions when in comes to aeration of the ...
  • Laying a New Lawn: If your lawn is in a bad state and sowing new seed has been unsuccessful, laying a completely new lawn could be the answer. Although it sounds like a major upheaval, ...
  • Landscape Mulch: Mulching is a must—as many gardeners have discovered. Not only is mulching around your flower beds and plants attractive from a landscaping point of view, it is excellent for you plants. ...
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    • Front Yard Landscaping Ideas
  • Landscaping for Curb Appeal: Revamping the front of your home is more than just improving the aesthetics of your space; adding curbside appeal to your landscape can actually add to the value of your property ...
  • Front Yard Makeover: Landscaping the property need not involve a major overhaul of the natural elements. Sometimes simple additions or deletions can make a strong impact on the overall appeal of the landscape or ...
  • Courtyard Garden Ideas: Whether your courtyard garden is formal or informal, there is a wide array of props, ornaments and features to enhance its look creating a favorite place to relax or entertain. The ...
  • Landscaping with Ornamental Grasses: Grass grows almost anywhere, but the best grows on well-drained soil near water and are exposed to adequate sunlight. North America once boasted some of the world’s best grasslands, although sadly ...
  • Front Yard Gardening: Gardening on a narrow strip or postage stamp places many constraints on gardeners. But for many, the challenge of gardening in a small space creates plots both interesting and arresting. City ...
  • Front Yard Landscaping Ideas: The space in front of your home can be more than a few well-mown squares of lawn. Front yard gardens allow gardeners to go public with their work enhancing their home ...
  • Landscaping with Trees: What could be grander than a full size tree—where the children swing from, where shade can be found, where its beauty changes season by season. But, the trees we love don’t ...
  • Front Yard Makeovers: Whether you are fixing your place up to sell or you simply want to improve your surroundings, giving your front yard a landscaping makeover requires a planning, implementing and, finally, a ...
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    • Garden Decorations
  • Gazing Globes: Craving more color for your garden or yard? Consider then, the gazing globe or mirror balls. For some people, outside ornaments given to us by Nature are not sufficient enough to ...
  • Lawn Gnomes: What is it about lawn gnomes (sometimes called garden gnomes that people find so appealing? Is it perhaps that adults are transported back to a time of childhood magic, where ...
  • Hanging Planters: If you only have a small area such as a balcony or porch in which to create a garden, you can do a lot more with hanging pots and baskets that ...
  • Gazebos: If you do outdoor entertaining or simply love to enjoy the pleasures of the outdoors, you can enhance your landscape and enjoy your garden in the pleasant shade of a gazebo. ...
  • Types of Bird Baths: There is no doubt that a birdbath will attract birds. However, why should you have a birdbath? Where should the birdbath be placed? What birds will you attract? Isn't scattering seeds ...
  • History of Garden Gnomes: Gnomes, legendary creatures of German folklore, have been a presence in gardens around the world since the 1800s. Their quirky faces and short bodies have more than a fanciful purpose for ...
  • Garden Cascades and Fountains: From suburban backyards to formal manor estates, water in the garden is a welcome feature for any style garden. Today’s garden centers offer a diverse range of materials for constructing water ...
  • Garden Fences: Fences can be more than just property dividers. While their primary function may be to divide or set apart, they offer the gardener the opportunity to create attractive visions that blend ...
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    • Garden Design
  • Building a Water Garden: Water gardens, with their floating foliage and soothing movement, bring many images of beauty, peace, and serenity. However, to prospective gardeners, water gardens can bring visions of more stressful images—ripped up ...
  • Backyard Habitat Planning: Bring wildlife to your garden or backyard by adding two key elements, a birdhouse and bird bath. Adding these two will not only welcome your nature neighbors but also ...
  • Garden Paths: You've planted a flower bed or garden. You've added garden fountains, statues and decorative garden flags here and there to develop personality for your yard decor . Now you're ready to ...
  • Walkway Design: When planning out your yard or garden, you’ll want to create a great first impression. One way to do this is to create a beautiful walkway that will set the tone ...
  • Choosing a Focal Point: What Is A Focal Point?
    A focal point is, by definition, an item or object that draws or attracts attention. In the case of a focal point in a garden this ...
  • Small Garden Design: Landscaping A Small Garden Is Easy Isn’t It?
    Many people mistakenly believe that a small garden is easier to design and easier to landscape than a larger garden. It may be ...
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    • Backyard Landscaping
  • Wildlife Ponds: Although flower and plants are living things and lovely to behold, nothing says life” like living, breathing creatures—and nothing will attract them to your landscape or garden quite like water. Creating ...
  • Espalier: Espalier is a gardening art that dates back to medieval times, when small walled gardens were popular. But today, with higher density living and the proliferation of townhouses and villas with ...
  • Outdoor Garden Fountains: One way to spruce up your yard decor is to add unique garden fountains to your landscaping plans. Garden fountains add personality to your yard and can be used to create ...
  • How to Build a Waterfall: Water features can make an incredible impact on any garden, whether they be a small inner city garden where the noise can be used to mask the passing traffic or noise ...
  • Garden Patios and Decks: There is no better place to enjoy your garden and landscape in bloom than from a new patio and deck where you can sit back and revel in the fruits of ...
  • Winter Landscaping Ideas: We've gathered up some great ideas on how to decorate and maintain your yard for the winter. Check them out here. ...
  • Water Wise Gardening: Those beautiful healthy blooms that are the envy of your neighbors do not get so without plenty of work on the part of the gardener. Most gardeners and homeowners understand that ...
  • Small Garden Design: Landscaping A Small Garden Is Easy Isn’t It?
    Many people mistakenly believe that a small garden is easier to design and easier to landscape than a larger garden. It may be ...
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    • Landscape Themes
  • Feng Shui Landscaping: You've probably heard designers on your favorite cable home decorating show speak about using the mysterious philosophy of feng shui to arrange your home furnishings and improve your life, but can ...
  • Mexican Garden Design: A courtyard garden in the pleasing Mexican tradition blends beauty with functionality. Not only are such hidden gardens lovely to behold, they serve as the ideal place where families can meet ...
  • Landscaping with Stone: For 2,000 years stones have been used in garden design. Not only do they marvelously factor into a low-maintenance garden, they enhance a landscape ascetically—in other words, they are both a ...
  • Roman Garden Design: Ancient Roman gardens--classical and formal, bountiful and beautiful. The concept of the villa and its gardens date back to the late Roman Empire and their designs are still inspiring modern gardeners ...
  • Japanese Dry Gardening: So, you have little space for a garden and even less time to maintain one, but you'd still like to find a way to enjoy the tranquility that communing with nature ...
  • Hacienda Garden: When dreaming up the ideal paradise, a traditional hacienda-style garden must rival any other style. Few styles match a hacienda garden’s combination of beauty and utter relaxation. Imagine this: large ornate ...
  • Privacy Landscaping: One of the best rewards for hard work spent caring for the landscape is the chance to sit back in the solitude of your yard, relax, and enjoy the fruits of ...
  • Spanish Garden Design: The idea of the secret garden is perhaps best attributed to the classic gardens of Spain whose flora is often hidden behind garden walls layered with stucco or screens of cypress ...
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    • Water Garden Design
  • Fish for your Water Garden: Goldfish have been kept as pets even well before 1000 AD. Originating in southern China, they are popular pond fish the world over. A diverse group, there are many varieties of ...
  • Water Garden Supplies: Just because you’ve invested large amounts of time and expense into your water garden does not mean you have a completed task. No, no! Besides your commitment of time to care ...
  • Water Feature Landscaping: Using a life-giving element like water to enhance landscape and garden design can turn your yard into an oasis of tranquility. It can increase the value of your property by as ...
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