Lawn Care Tips for a Green Lawn

Lawn tips for the greenest lawn in the neighborhood! Creating a lawn that your neighbors will envy takes time and dedication. If you follow some very basic principles you will have a green lawn in no time.

Predator - Proof Your Pond

I will teach you how to build a new pond or remodel your existing pond and make it completely safe from predators – except for bears. If you have bears in your yard, you have more to worry about than losing some fish.

Sheds - The Ultimate Must For Your Garden

One of the most common complaints that you will hear from gardeners is not having enough room for all the various pots, containers, potting soil mixes, fertilizer, till, shovels, hoes and rakes. Gardening can become a delightful hobby but it requires a lot of gadgets and items to be as successful as many hobbyist like to take it.

Multi-Gardens: The Latest In New Garden Design Concepts

There are new, creative and impressively artistic ways to design gardens becoming popular among gardening enthusiasts everywhere. One such type of garden is designed with multiple garden spaces, separate in theme, like rooms. When one garden is an outdoor delight, more than one garden could be even better.

How to Find The Right Pond Builder

There is such a wide range of information to be learned on this topic of koi pond and waterfall construction. and so much technical information to learn, you may decide to seek professional assistance to complete part or all of the water features. Before you proceed, here are some extremely important facts you should know...

Seven Most Asked Questions About UV Pond Filters

Do I need an ultraviolet light in my pond? Some ponds need a UV light and some do not. If you have a small pond with a few guppies or mosquito fish, and it is 50% covered with hyacinth, water lettuce, or lilies, and it is being aerated by a fountain or waterfall, the answer is: No!

Oxygenating Fountains

One of the practical uses for setting up a water fountain is to provide oxygen for wildlife such as Koi fish. The extra movement of water that a fountain provides enriches the water with oxygen.

Hot Tub Gazebo Plan - Use Your Hot Tub No Matter the Weather

Your hot tub is a focal point in your backyard landscape. It is a great place to soak the cares of the day away. Friends enjoy coming over and joining you in your bubbly wonderland. You can extend the hot tub season indefinitely when you decide to add a gazebo to your hot tub as an enclosure.

What to Look for When Buying Topsoil

When buying topsoil, one should consider the pH range of the plants in the landscape to be grown; certain acid loving plants don't grow well when the soil pH is greater than 6.0. Generally, topsoils with a pH value of less than 4.5 or greater than 7.0 should be avoided.

Landscaping Tips - Free Is Not Always Cheap

Because so many people have done at least part of their own landscaping, enjoying the chance to till the good Earth while being warmed by the sun or cooled by the occasional balmy breezes of spring, there is no shortage of those who can advise you with landscaping tips on request.

Feng Shui in the Garden - Don't Be Intimidated!

It's easy to be intimidated by a practice and philosophy that's easily mispronounced and thousands of years old. The best thing to keep in mind when approaching feng shui - either in the home or garden - is that it's a practice that simply gives you guidelines for things you often know instinctively.

Metal Gazebo Roof - A Roof For Your Gazebo

When you choose to buy a custom gazebo kit, you are offered many options to complete the gazebo you have long been dreaming of. Do you want screens? Do you want windows? And more importantly, what kind of roof do you want for your gazebo?

Your Home Landscape Design

Your home landscape design is one of the most important, if not the most important, parts of the whole landscape project, because the design should dictate everything that comes later. The plants, the lawn, the paths and walkways, the pond or hot tub, the grill, the shrubs and trees will all be designed into things in the beginning.

Investing Tips for Landscape Rock

Ready to invest a little in your landscape and make it shine but also look unique? Here’s how! Adding landscape rock to a current, well-designed landscape can change the complete look and feel. The addition of rock to a landscape often provides the finishing touch in separating a good landscape design from a great landscaping design.