Landscape Design
Good landscape design can be fun and rewarding with a little prior planning. Consider the shape and size of your property, any hardscape needs, how to do it, and your own personal style to make it reflect your taste. Read here for ideas.
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Landscape Design
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Growing Plants For Curb Appeal – How To Add Curb Appeal To Your Front Yard
What is the first thing visitors will notice about a home? Front yard landscapes. Improving your front yard will help improve the impression of your home to others. Click the following article for tips on adding curb appeal to your home.
By Teo Spengler
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Patio Landscaping: Ideas For Gardening Around Patios
Gardening around patios can present a daunting challenge, but patio landscaping may be easier than you think. We’ve included a few of our favorite ideas for creating a garden surrounding a patio in the following article. Click here to learn more.
By Mary H. Dyer
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What Is A Pallet Raised Bed: How To Make A Pallet Garden Bed
Although pallet collars are generally used for shipping, they have become a hot commodity among gardeners, who use them to create pallet collar gardens and pallet raised beds. Wondering how you can make a raised bed out of pallet collars? Click here for more info.
By Mary H. Dyer
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What Is A Gutter Garden – How To Make A Gutter Garden
These days many containers are used to grow flowers, herbs, and vegetables – including some for gutter garden ideas. No one knows who originated the idea of growing shallow-rooted plants in a prepared gutter, but it is a worthwhile undertaking. Learn more here.
By Becca Badgett
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Gardening With Color: Learn About Using Color In The Garden
There are numerous flower color combinations that you can use. And with some basic, creative visual art techniques to plan out your garden, you’ll be gardening with color in no time! Click on the following article for more information about using color in the garden.
By Gardening Know How
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Are Streetlights Bad For Plants – Is Planting Under Streetlights Okay
Plants have evolved to sense and respond to changes in daylight as seasons shift, except those that grow at the equator, of course. Disrupting periods of darkness, such as by growing near streetlights, can affect a plant in a number of ways. Learn more here.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Driveway Landscaping Tips: What Are The Best Plants For Driveways
Landscaping is an art, and not one that can be applied the same way to all parts of the yard. Driveway landscaping, in particular, has certain rules that should be followed if you want your plans to succeed. Learn more about growing plants along driveways in this article.
By Liz Baessler
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What Is Pantone – Planting A Garden With Pantone’s Color Palette
Need inspiration for your garden color scheme? Pantone, the system used to match colors for everything from fashion to print, has a beautiful and inspiring palette each year. Click this article to learn how to use pantone color palettes in the garden.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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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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Bedhead Garden Ideas: How To Grow A Bedhead Garden
Admit it, you love your days off when you can roll out of bed, throw on comfy clothes and embrace the bedhead look. In fact, this laid back style works great in gardens too. Click the following article to learn more about low maintenance bedhead gardens.
By Darcy Larum