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Planning a Flower Border
The Location Flower borders are similar to flower gardens, but they are typically not as spacious. Flower borders are typically seen in front of a fence, along the shrubbery, or in front of a building. It is even possible to...
To Make Your Own Garden in a Pot
When you start planning your pots, remember to think big, think garden:
use a variety of herbs, flowers, perennials, bulbs and groundcovers. While you are combining plants, choose plants that are compatible. Shade lovers or...
Creating Low Maintenance Gardens
While no garden is maintenance free, it is possible to make a garden with relatively few demands. Careful planning, proper plant selection and thoughtful design are essential to creating a low maintenance landscape which...
Old-Time Favorites: Plants for Your Garden Worth Remembering
Remember the almost magical feeling of your grandmothers garden, bursting with loads of colorful, fragrant blooms and magnificent foliage? There was always something going on in the garden; and nearly every plant had a...
Floral Garden and Landscape Toupees
English Ivy is a wonderful groundcover and makes a home look lovely, lived in, and comfy. There is a problem, however. Ivy can kill trees and other plants. It can also cause extensive damage to foundations, siding, and...
How To Grow Healthy Organic Herbs
Herbs are such a wonderful gift from mother nature in so many ways. There uses are many, including culinary; medicinal; household; cosmetic and craft. Not to mention their uses in the garden as companion plants and many can be...
To Make Your Own Garden in a Pot
When you start planning your pots, remember to think big, think garden:
use a variety of herbs, flowers, perennials, bulbs and groundcovers. While you are combining plants, choose plants that are compatible. Shade lovers or...
Gardening With Groundcovers
There are always those spots in your garden where grass just doesn't seem to grow or that are either too rocky or rooty for shrubs. Groundcovers can solve all kinds of gardening problems and are frequently well suited to these...
Landscaping For Small Space
Having a small yard area does not forestall you from having a beautiful space that you will enjoy. It does, however, require planning and a bit more ingenuity than the average garden. There are a number of options for small...
What's a Perennial and How Do I Use It?
Do you know what a "perennial" is? If you do, go to the head of the class because many people dont know the answer.Until now
A perennial is simply any hardy plant that lives three or more years (if you dont kill it)....
How To Edge Your Lawn
You have seen those perfectly edged lawns, and now you want one. The only question is how to get that ideal edge that you have seen all over the place, and what equipment you need to achieve that edge.There are a number of...
Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens
There are principles behind successful execution in every art form and combining plants into beautiful arrangements is every bit as much an art as is music or painting. Entire books are dedicated to the subject of combining...
Designing Your Garden - Focusing On Focal Points
Gardening time is here again! You have grandiose visions of a lush green paradise, picturesque flower beds and picture ideal tomatoes and other vegetables. You see yourself lazing in a hammock with a good book, and breezy...
Planting Around Tree Roots
Have you ever tried to cut through layers of maple roots to plant that groundcover or flowering shrub that you so diligently picked out? Have you ever found that after picking the ideal spot to plant that there is a four-inch...
Shade Gardening Tips From Hawaii
If youre a first time gardener, or youve inherited your garden along with your house, then youll probably not have noticed that your garden has a shaded area. Believe me it will have a shaded space somewhere, even if it...
Shedding Light On Shade Gardening
A shade garden can be a rare botanical experience that almost seems naturally occurring when properly executed. It is subtle and restful. Bright colors are used sparingly as accents, while textures and architecture are the...
10 Ways To Make Your Garden More Interesting
Here are 10 ways to transform a boring garden into a place of interest:* Attract WildlifeWho doesn't love to see birds and butterflies visit their garden? Try to mimic the natural landscape within your garden and you will have...
Rare And Exotic Garden Perennials For Landscape Planting
The term, 'perennial plant', means simply that the plant returns following severe freezes, to grow again the next year. Trees are cold hardy tested perennials by nature, some trees that are evergreens and do not go dormant, but...
Planning, Creating & Maintaining Rock Gardens
Often there are those areas of your garden that just aren't suitable for lawn or have exposed ledge and rocks making it impossible to plant shrubs. These areas can easily be transformed into beautiful rock gardens by...
Designing an Edible Garden
When considering an edible garden the first thing most people will think of is the vegetable garden. Vegetable gardens are by far the most popular type of edible garden for the home gardener. There are, however, many garden...
5 Must Know Tips For A Better Looking Landscape
There is no doubt that when landscaping one wants to save money, as well as have an attractive property. Not only can landscaping help you beautify your home, but it can also provide a source of satisfying exercise in the fresh...
Downsizing Your Retirement Garden
A recent stroll through my retirement community revealed to me how truly creative and artistic people can be. These retirement homes with their tiny gardens are truly miniature works of art. These are probably tiny examples of...
An Old Friend "Minibar Rose" Morning Glory
As a grower, I am always on the lookout for new plants. It is my pleasure to grow new plants, and it is my duty as a retailer to offer my customers the best of what the garden has to offer. Over the years, I have introduced...
10 Ways To Make Your Garden More Interesting
Here are 10 ways to transform a boring garden into a place of interest:Attract Wildlife
Who doesn't love to see birds and butterflies visit their garden? Try to mimic the natural landscape within your garden and you will have...
Landscaping Ideas For Your Yard
Landscaping Ideas for Your YardOne of the benefits of having a yard is the fun you can have landscaping it. Imagine your yard with a garden pond enhanced by a pond bridge, wooden playscapes for children, walkthrough...
Garden Bridges: Impact Gardens Dramatically With Wooden Garden Bridges
Nothing adds form and functionality more attractively than wooden garden bridges placed strategically outdoor landscape appeal. This hardscape item can add dramatic interest to water gardens; serve as a practical (and...
How To Make Topsoil
It sounds impossible, right? Topsoil is the top layer of the earth. How can you make your own topsoil? Well, I am about to tell you how you can make topsoil.The best indicator for the over-all health of the land is the health...
The Magic of Annual Vines
For the cost of a packet of seeds, you can quickly make a show stopping garden accent or a living hideaway for children, hide a rusty chain link fence or an unsightly garage wall, and turn an ordinary balcony into a private...
A Rather Shady Affair
One of the most challenging tasks for any homeowner is finding those ideal plants for the shade garden or north side of the house. Whenever teaching home landscape design classes I am always bombarded with requests to suggest a...
Planning, Creating & Maintaining Rock Gardens
Often there are those areas of your garden that just aren't suitable for lawn or have exposed ledge and rocks making it impossible to plant shrubs. These areas can easily be transformed into beautiful rock gardens by...
Add To The Drama Of Your Bonsai With These Ground Covers
Adding a groundcover to a bonsai tree can either detract or add to the beauty of your design. You want to make certain the tree stays as the main attraction but you also want to add something pleasing underneath at ground...