EMPHASIZE - Garden Guide
Foraging In The Forest: Finding Materials That Link Your Home To The Great Outdoors
Thinking about redecorating? Before you run to the nearest interior design store, consider looking to the forests instead. Natural, minimally-worked materials help make an interior that seamlessly transitions from the outdoors...
Remove Crabgrass Once and For All and Forever
Has crabgrass taken over your lawn? Are you envious of your neighbor's sod, but don't want the expense? There is good news about crabgrass - it is an annual weed, meaning that it dies off at the end of the summer. Crabgrass...
Landscaping Your Garden and Adding Value to Your Home
Landscaping is a big task, consuming much time and energy. It also supplies a great sense of accomplishment, well being and is a great source of energy. But before you hire that professional, here are some tips that could save...
Organic or Chemical - or Both? What Kind of Vegetable Garden Should You Grow
Today we will discuss a fundamental question in gardening. Previously I was posed this question: I hear that chemicals are poisoning our waterways, and that organic growing is much healthier than using chemicals. Whats...
The Art Of Landscaping Your Garden
Landscaping is the one gardening endeavor that can consume lots and lots of your time and energy. If you are thinking of tackling it on a grand scale, you will need some major preparation. If you were to consider hiring a...
Why Add Garden Decor?
Looking back through history, gardens have always been emphasized. From the Garden of Eden to modern times, writers have placed the principal characters of their stories and sometimes the most exciting events in gardens....
Fall Blooming Bulbs where to look for? and what to look for?
Fall Blooming BulbsThe only problem when planting spring-flowering bulbs is that one has to wait until next spring to see them come up. But if you plant fall-blooming ones, there's no delayed gratification. In fact, they'll...
Landscaping Ideas
Landscaping ideas are created in the heart, and in the mind. It really is amazing how easy it can be to make the look of a professional landscape renovation in your own front or back yard. It doesnt take a great deal of skill...
How To Spruce Up Your Garden Decor
Fabulous backyards are all the rage now. From ornate concrete fountains, bubbling fish ponds, garden bridges, and cedar arbors, the current garden decor trends emphasize natural materials. Even the small budget can afford...
Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden
Nearly every house and garden presents numerous attractive settings for container plants. Suburban gardens, estates, small city backyards, and summer cottagesall can be enhanced by this type of gardening. A few of the...
Making Artificial Topiary Trees Blend With Your Outdoors
Your outdoors will look marvelous and full of splendor if you decorate well with artificial topiary trees. Imagine having a garden thats so scenic and majestic. Each morning you wake up and you look at it, it blows all...
Front Yards: Matching Landscaping With Architecture
You have a beautiful home and you want to have a beautiful yard as well. However, you can have both and them not look all that beautiful together. That happens when the front yard landscaping does not match the homes...
Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden
Nearly every house and garden presents numerous attractive settings for container plants. Suburban gardens, estates, small city backyards, and summer cottagesall can be enhanced by this type of gardening. A few of the...
Another Kind of Energy or ComPost-Modernism
PERMACULTURE HAS ITS GENESIS in the visionary work of J. Russell Smith, J. Sholto Douglas, Robert Hart, and others less well known, who, two generations ago and more, realized the urgency of transforming the basis of...
Garden Decking: Making The Right Decisions
Decking for your garden is one of the more popular choices these days, and is frequently one of the best options of you're looking to replace grass with a more durable and easily maintained surface. Decking is usually cheaper...
Gardening Can Be Suitable For Anyone
There are gardening methods to fit the style and needs of every gardener; and every gardener has preferred and unique ways of growing a beautiful garden. Beginning gardeners can join a local garden club and benefit from the...
Design An Entrance Garden
Foundation plantings have traditionally been intended to screen cement foundations of houses. This is a bit short sighted, however. Creating a welcoming entrance garden is a more appropriate way go about designing these spaces....
Gardening - When to Prune
Pruning that is done by the amateur gardener is carried out to maintain a plant that has been already trained in a nursery. However, many keen gardeners grow shrubs and even trees from cuttings and seed, even though it is...
The Art of English Garden Landscaping
Each garden designer has his or her own signature style of landscaping the area. Depending on preference and style, the garden may either have a complex design with an obviously manicured landscape. Or, the gardens design may...
Container Gardening - The Fundamentals Towards Attaining A Beautiful Garden
A natural sanctuary can be made by container gardens on balconies, next to rooftops or even in a busy city street. One can very easily emphasize on the convivial look of a patio or a deck with colorful annual pots or by filling...