Landscape Ideas
When it comes to landscaping in the garden, it’s all about personal style and there are few limits when it comes to creating your own beautiful and original landscape ideas. Are you looking for simplicity and serenity, or do you have time for a more elaborate landscape? Maybe a unique, themed garden, a formal garden or a garden for kids? The following articles should help inspire some creative ideas for the landscape.
Landscape Ideas
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Driftwood Garden Art: Tips On Using Driftwood In The Garden
Whether garden décor is new, upcycled, or made from natural materials, there’s no denying it can add a sense of charm. Driftwood, for example, has gained popularity in recent years just for this reason, and you can find some driftwood ideas for the garden here.
By Tonya Barnett
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What Is A Stumpery Garden – Stumpery Ideas For The Landscape
Hugelkulture isn't the only way to use logs and stumps. A stumpery provides interest, habitat, and a low maintenance landscape that is appealing to nature lovers. What is a stumpery? Find out here and learn how to create your own in this article.
By Bonnie L. Grant
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Mailbox Garden Ideas: Tips For Gardening Around A Mailbox
What is a mailbox garden? Mailbox garden design centers on the mailbox and the space around it. How extravagant you get is up to you but consider the size, maintenance, and access to the space before you begin planting. Learn more in this article.
By Bonnie L. Grant
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Wooden Tile For Patios: Choosing Tile That Looks Like Wood
Wood is lovely, but tends to degrade in the elements rapidly when used outside. That’s what makes the newer outdoor patio wood tiles so great. They’re actually porcelain patio tiles with a wood grain. Interested in wooden tile for your patio? Click here to learn more.
By Amy Grant
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Good Plants For Berms: What To Grow On A Berm
Whatever the reason you choose for creating a berm in your garden, don’t forget to choose and put in the best berm plants to make it really pop and look like more than just a random hill. Looking for some ideas for planting on a berm? The following article can help.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Berm Edging Tips – How To Make Borders For Berms
A berm is a good way to add visual interest to a landscape, but this mounded bed is also practical. If you like neat and tidy edges on your beds, consider the berm borders you’ll create before designing and building one. Click this article to learn more about edges for berms.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Decorative Fences For Gardens: Ideas For Fun Garden Fences
Fences are often necessary to keep something in or to keep something out. Often, we end up needing garden fence ideas. A new garden fence design serves those purposes while providing new decorating challenges in the landscape. Learn more in this article.
By Becca Badgett
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How To Make A Garden Room – Tips For Enclosing A Garden
When you’re designing an outdoor living space, there aren’t too many hard and fast rules you have to follow. One thing you’ll almost definitely want, however, is some sense of enclosure. Learn more about designing a small garden space in this article.
By Liz Baessler
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Groundhog Day Prediction – Planning For Your Spring Garden
That Groundhog Day prediction may see an earlier than expected warm up, which means spring garden planning should be well under way. Get some tips on planning for your spring garden so you are ready to shoot out of the gates on the first warm day. Learn more here.
By Bonnie L. Grant
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What Is A Wicking Bed – DIY Wicking Bed Ideas For Gardeners
A wicking bed is an easy and effective solution if you're gardening in a climate with low rainfall. It allows water to accumulate and be taken up by plant roots naturally, making it possible to grow water-loving plants even in arid climates. Learn more here.
By Liz Baessler
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Sundial Uses For Gardens: Tips On Using Sundials In Gardens
Sundials are ancient time-telling devices that have been around for thousands of years - long before primitive clocks were created in the 1300s. Sundials in the garden create artistic conversation pieces. Click this article for more information.
By Mary H. Dyer
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Rainscaping Ideas – Learn How To Rainscape Your Garden
One of the scariest things about heavy spring storms can be where all that rain goes after it falls to the earth. Rainscaping is an increasingly popular trend in landscaping which offers homeowners a better alternative. Learn more about it in this article.
By Darcy Larum
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Creating A Focal Point: What To Add For A Focal Point In The Garden
Because focal points in gardens draw the eye to something, it is important to decide what to use when creating focal points. The following article can help with that. Click here for information on using focal points.
By Amy Grant
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Gardening In Stone Walls – Ideas For Planting Flowers In A Wall
While some may see just a looming structure, gardeners will see the crevices between the stones as an opportunity for a new planting project. Growing plants in a stone wall can soften and blend the stone into the landscape. Click here to learn about gardening in retaining walls.
By Darcy Larum
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Common Landscape Design Problems: Tackling Issues With Landscape Design
A properly designed landscape displays your style and taste with unity and balance. Your landscape should be appealing and inviting, as well as practical and attractive.
By Darcy Larum
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Mermaid Garden Ideas – Learn How To Make A Mermaid Garden
What is a mermaid garden and how do I make one? A mermaid garden is an enchanting little sea-themed garden. Mermaid garden ideas are endless, but the common factor is a mermaid. No two mermaid fairy gardens are alike, so unleash your creativity and let’s get started here!
By Mary H. Dyer
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Southwest Garden Design: Choosing Plants For Southwest Gardens
There’s no shortage of desert garden ideas, even in areas where the sun beats down with a fury from dawn to dusk, or in the chillier high desert regions. The following Southwest garden design ideas will pique your creativity. Learn more here.
By Mary H. Dyer