These articles containing tips on landscape design from the Landscaping Website were created in February-May, 2003. Included among the tips in these articles are how-to guides to building arbors, fountains and patios. Return to the Landscaping Website index to access tips from articles from other years.
05/18/03 - Home Accents: Do It Yourself Garden Arbors
How to design and build a garden arbor. Instructions accompanied by pictures; designed for beginners.
05/11/03 - Landscaping for Butterflies
How to design a butterfly garden -- butterfly bush, butterfly weed and other plants for attracting butterflies.
05/04/03 - Landscaping With Rhododendron and Azalea Bushes
Pictures and descriptions of rhododendron bushes and azalea bushes.
04/30/03 - Landscaping With Weeping Trees
Pictures and descriptions of my Top 10 weeping trees, including ornamental cherry.
04/21/03 - Water Garden Design With Water Fountains
Do-it-yourself garden pond project, replete with a backyard water fountain.
04/16/03 - Easter Bunny and Pest Control
Wild rabbits can be controlled using traps, repellents, chicken wire fences and electric fencing. You can also simply plant plants rabbits won't eat! Pest control measures against this landscaping pest are discussed after a brief introduction to the origin of the Easter Bunny tradition.
04/09/03 - Plants That Grow in Shade
A Top 10 list of shade-loving and shade-tolerant plants, by category: trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, rock garden perennials, ground covers, ornamental grasses and lawn grasses.
04/07/03 - Vole Pest Control
Identifying voles and controlling these rodent pests.
04/04/03 - How To Design and Build Brick Patios - Elegant Patios Without Cutting A Single Brick!
A simple design plan to make laying brick patios easy for do it yourselfers. This brick patio design is easy to build yet elegant, laying the bricks in a striking pattern that requires no cutting!
04/02/03 - Deer Pest Control
Don't let deer eat up your rock garden design plans! You can beat deer with organic pest control: namely, by planting plants that deer pests don't eat.
03/31/03 - Mole Pest Control
Tips on mole control -- traps, pesticides, organic control.
03/25/03 - Spring Landscaping Tips for April Fools
Tips on rototillers, pruning, mulching.
03/21/03 - Silent Spring, Celebration of the Spring Landscape
A reminder that pollution is not the only challenge to the enjoyment of spring's birds and other delights.
03/11/03 - Privacy Screens With "Living Wall" Fences
Learn about privacy screen options. Privacy fences can be hardscape fences. But they can also be "living walls" of plants.
03/05/03 - Landscape Design With Rock Gardens
Learn about rock gardens and other solutions to problem areas, including the use of xeriscaping, mulch and hardscape.
02/24/03 - Shamrocks, Clovers and Rethinking the Lawn
Arguments for replacing grass lawns with clover lawns. Clover is a drought-tolerant alternative to grass.
For more landscaping tips from Landscaping Website articles written in January-February, 2003, continue to Page 5.
