Soil Rehabilitation Advice: Bring Your Soil Back to Life – Organically!
What are the benefits of organic lawn and garden care? Lawns and gardens cared for organically produce plants with greater drought tolerance, disease, and insect resistance, and yields. In the…
Exploring Foundation Gardens, Critical Plantings for Effective Landscapes
Chances are, if your home has any sort of a landscape at all, it has a foundation garden. These are simply plantings up against a house or any other man-made structure in the landscape which…
The Formidable Technique of Virtual Walls – Mastering a Trick of the Designer Pros
As homeowners, we are all familiar with the walls found in our homes. Here, they are almost always solid partitions that isolate and divide the spaces of the house into distinct rooms with…
Landscape Planning Mistakes – A Landscape Doctor’s Humorous Diagnosis
Over my years of planning landscapes, I have come across some atrocious mistakes. Usually, it is because people have just not taken the time to ask questions or do not respect the value of…
The Art and Craft of Moon Gardens
“On strolls through my garden in the evening, I’m drawn to one bed in particular. As night falls, this bed of herbs and flowers glimmers glows catches the moonlight, and tosses it…
How to Use Peel and Stick Wallpaper to Update Your Home In 2023
If you’re looking for an easy and affordable way to update your home in 2023, peel-and-stick wallpaper is the answer. This versatile and convenient product can be used to add color,…
Rockin’ Outdoor Dining Areas
Outdoor dining areas are a joy. Nothing offers us a way to sit back and enjoy sharing the rays of the summer sun with friends or family quite like our own private decks or patios. It is no…
Creating a Garden Oasis: Using Canvas Print in Your Outdoor
Ah, there’s nothing quite like spending time in your own garden oasis! An outdoor space is an escape from the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life and provides a restorative space to…
6 Tips for Yard & Garden Tool Maintenance, Fall Cleaning for the Tools of Your Trade
Plants are not the only things in your yard that will benefit from winterizing this fall season. Many times we take for granted that the tools we put away the previous year will be waiting for…
Preparing and Maintaining a Lawn for Winter
Learn all about preparing a lawn for winter. Mow the lawn down to 2 inches and fertilize in early September, as this is the most important time to fertilize of the year. Find out why in this…
Fall Gardening: What to Do with Plants
The weather is becoming cooler and the leaves are changing — time for fall gardening, what do I do to my plants? Gardening in the autumn months is much more than just raking up leaves and…
A Guide to Repairing a Garden in the Fall
Repairing a garden in the fall and for the coming of winter is both necessary, and productive. Not only will you find spring planting season to be less of a chore, but you can accomplish…