You're new to the Home and Garden scene? You've recently bought your first home (or are planning to), but your landscaping experience doesn't go beyond mowing lawns? What you need are some quick tips to get you going. This introduction to landscaping will do just that, plus link you to landscape design ideas.

As you'll see from this series of FAQs, landscaping is about more than just arranging plants in a yard and maintaining the lawn. Through hardscape projects homeowners enhance their properties by building decks and patios to create outdoor living spaces -- truly extensions of the home....