VIEWER - Garden Guide
A Traipse Through the Tulips
Flowering bulbs can change your garden from being merely a plot of dirt and rocks adorned with a few scraggly plants to being an absolute showplace, with splashes of brilliant color. Bulbs provide a good investment in terms of...
A Review of Martha Stewart
I've never been one for cooking, entertaining company, or designing my home, so Martha Stewart is never exactly been on my radar before. Sure, I heard all about her insider trading scandal and subsequent imprisonment, who...
How To Light Your Garden Fountain
As with any lighting project it is important to think about the shape of the objects being lit. This is, perhaps, even more true of garden fountains. Gardens at night take on new shapes and shadows. When you want to illuminate...
Colour in the Garden
Gardeners, like all artists, use the power of colour to make and enhance the mood and impact of their landscape design. Through our understanding of the properties of colour we can elevate our compositions balance and...
Japanese Garden Styles - Which One Is The Best For You?
Japanese gardens have become popular choices when choosing to landscape a yard. The entire garden concept is designed to make an experience, invoke feelings and provide a haven where one can be relaxed, calm and peruse...
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...
Gardening Tools - An Overview
Most people know very well about the rules and regulations to keep your plants to grow healthy in your garden. For getting sustainable growth from your garden plants, they do require good soil quality, sun light and sufficient...
4 Essential Elements in the Oriental Garden - From a South African Perspective
Western gardeners have the utmost respect and admiration for oriental gardens, not just because of the feeling of peace and tranquility with which they are imbued, but also because of their seeming simplicity and, to us, the...
Garden Tips: Landscaping with Stones
A patio or a garden is a place where you expect to find comfort and peace, a place where you want to bring the nature closer to you, especially if you live in a city. For this purpose, you should symbolize the relation between...
The ABC's of Waterfalls Part 2
In part 1 you learned some of the basic information that you should know for pond construction. Such as stones, size and form. Part 2 is catered towards teaching you the bs of waterfalls such as the berm, and the biofall.At...
Bringing A Yard To Life With Landscape Gardening
For centuries, one of the most popular things to do around one's home was to make a garden. Gardens were filled with flowers, plants, or food, and they provided enjoyment and sustenance for the homeowner.The tradition of...
Creating A Landscape Garden Design
Many people enjoy gardening and caring for their lawns as a hobby, making a beautiful outdoor space with ones own thoughts, ideas, and work is very rewarding. Making a beautiful landscape garden design can be difficult for...
Uncover The Mystery Of A Zen Garden
For all those who know little about gardening, Zen garden is a term used for Japanese rock gardens, moisture-free, made-of-stones, dry kind of gardens - To a certain extent this is correct, but giving due consideration to the...
Landscaping Ideas Come From Everywhere
There are many avenues to explore when considering the landscape of your backyard, and you want to explore them all because landscaping your yard is a big step.People love to spend time in their backyards, either pottering...
In Garden Design, Less Is More
"Less is more." Mies Van der Rohe said it, and exemplified what he said with such architectural masterpieces as the Seagram Building in New York City.By "less is more" he meant the avoidance of gratuitous ornamentation. He...
Colour in the Garden
Gardeners, like all artists, use the power of colour to make and enhance the mood and impact of their landscape design. Through our understanding of the properties of colour we can elevate our compositions balance and...
Two Great Garden Landscaping Ideas
In most places, gardens can be incorporated in lawns. As usual, the gardener finds an open patch of space and grows the garden foliage there. However, a garden could be placed anywhere, aside from a loan.Take for example a...
The Basic Elements of Garden Landscaping Design
Designing a garden seems to be easy. However, when the garden is finished, some gardeners become disappointed with the result. The final product is messy and not appealing to the eye.That is why it is important to study the...
Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden
Creating structural elements in your garden will transform it from the ordinary, to the extraordinary. A well-planned framework of supports and dividers will make visual interest throughout the year, as well as allow your...
Landscape Design and Gardening
The taste, culture, and overall personality of an individual are reflected through a number of aspects, among which the residence is considered to be one of the most important. A cozy and warm home to return to, after a long...