A Beginner’s Guide to Designing a Beautiful Outdoor Space
Design a stunning outdoor retreat without stress. Learn how to choose the right plants, furniture, and lighting for a cozy atmosphere.
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How to Identify Snake Holes in Your Yard—and What to Do After
Learn how to identify, deal with, and prevent snake holes in your yard. Stay vigilant and protect your home from potential dangers.
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How to Design a Japandi Style Garden for Zen-Like Ambiance
Design your own Japandi style garden to create a peaceful and harmonious outdoor retreat. Embrace the serenity of Japandi aesthetics with our tips and ideas!
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A Vegetable Garden for Everyone: Discovering the True Meaning of Fresh
Many people have noticed the escalating price of fresh produce at the local supermarket and from the wayside stands that offer us our daily intake of vegetables and fruits. Unfortunately,…
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Evergreens – the Perfect Winter Backdrop: Designing Landscapes for Winter Color
Evergreens are plants that people seem to either love or hate. Usually, the hate stems from a series of failures to get them to survive through their first winter. Others…
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The Active Winter Gardener: a Time for Planning Ahead
I don’t know where the illusion first originated, but most non-gardeners live under the false perception that winter is a time of rest. For a true Northscaper, this couldn’t be…
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The Wonderful World Of Hydrangeas
When gardeners think of hydrangeas, they often associate them with the deep South, the showy blue or pink mop-headed flowers boldly encircling the foundation of some lovely manor or estate.…
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Understanding Winter Hardiness
Among the many factors that define the northern gardening experience and the use of plants in the north, none is more prominent than the concept of winter hardiness. Almost all northerners…
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Using Hostas In Landscape Applications Meet The New Elite Designer Plant
Over the 1990s, the elegant hosta experienced what can only be called a revolution from a gardener’s perspective. During this period the number of cultivars exploded, with more big ones…
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Never Hug a Barberry: Exposing the Thorny, Spiny Truth
Most gardeners and home landscapers are aware (or become aware at some point in their lives) that there’s no such thing as the “perfect” plant – all plants have their…
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Many Shades of Green The Fundamental Color of Garden Design
In the quest to create our optimal outdoor living spaces, how often do we describe the foliage color of a particular plant as simply “green”? When it comes to designing…
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Preparing to Design Your Landscape: A Profile of You and Your Family
Now that you have had a chance to look around and take stock of your yard, it is time to start evaluating what you can do to improve it. These…
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Coping With Death in the Landscape: The Cycle of Life in Your Garden
As winter passes into spring and the snows melt away, our precious outdoor living spaces are revealed once more, along with the trees and shrubs, and other plants we so…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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