Landscape Design Ideas - Garden Design
Pictures and explanations of garden and landscape design ideas. Let these free ideas from landscapers inspire your new garden or landscape design. Landscaping can increase the real estate value of your property by 15%. Why not mine this free source for pictures and tips to renovate your yard?

Shrubs and Bushes for Hedges, Specimens
Shrubs and bushes can be either deciduous or evergreen. Many shrubs attract birds with their berries and provide both fall foliage and winter interest. Shrubs and bushes can be pruned into hedges, can function as privacy screens, or can stand alone as specimens used for focal points.

Ornamental Trees - Landscaping Trees
Tree care for ornamental trees (flowering ornamentals like dogwood, weeping cherry, pear, Japanese maple, evergreens, etc.). Ornamental trees for attracting birds, year-round interest with evergreen trees. Specialty trees such as dwarf trees, spring flowering trees, weeping flowering trees, weeping evergreen trees, shade trees.

Butterfly Gardens and Attracting Birds
Watching butterflies, hummingbirds and other wild birds is an fun part of landscaping. Create butterfly gardens and plant plants good at attracting birds. Design your landscape with an eye to attracting birds. Grow and craft gourds to make novel gourd birdhouses. Attracting butterflies to butterfly gardens means plants attractive to you, too!

Free Landscaping Tips for Frugal Living
Free landscaping tips on cheap or totally free practices. Free ideas to put a beautiful face on your yard without putting a hole in your pocket. When someone calls you "cheap," do you consider it a compliment rather than a cheap shot? Then these free landscaping tips are for you, devotee of frugal living! Explore cheaper lawn care with xeriscaping, clover and other alternatives.

Easy Landscaping - Tips From Jerry Baker
You want a beautiful landscape, but low maintenance? A guide for the lazy, these tips on avoiding unnecessary work while still maintaining an attractive landscape include advice from Jerry Baker. Learn how to save time, money and energy through landscaping shortcuts and old-time wisdom, such as that of Jerry Baker, "America's Master Gardener."

Landscape Design Plans
You will save time in the long run by using landscape design plans before doing landscaping. Some of these resources show you how landscape designers think and put ideas on paper; see how professional landscape designers sketch out their design themes before implementing them. Others are free landscape design plans already drawn up for your viewing.

Rock Gardens, Japanese Zen Gardens
Landscaping with rock is an art. When constructing rock gardens the plantings betwixt the rocks take center stage. Rock gardening articles cover design of alpine and rock gardens, including Zen and Japanese gardens, an making faux rock. Plants to use in rock gardening include moss, ferns, succulents, lichens, euphorbias, and water plants for use in conjunction with backyard ponds.

Building, Design of Wood Decks, Arbors
Building decks provides outdoor living spaces. Problem is, you don’t know where to begin, you say? Your do-it-yourself carpentry skills are basic at best, and the prospect of deck design and construction from scratch is rather daunting? These resources will help. To further enhance your outdoor living spaces, find out how to build wooden garden arbors -- pehaps right over your decks!

Patios and Walls: Hardscape, Landscaping
Hardscape (flagstone patios, decks, walls, stepping stones, garden terraces, etc.) complements your landscape gardening. Ideas for stone walls, patios, decks, paths and the masonry you need to build them. How to make faux rocks and other stepping-stone ideas. Step by step instructions for building simple brick patios and concrete patios, including cement-mixing tips.

Controlling Insect, Rodent, Garden Pests
Organic methods explored, as well as pesticides. Moles, voles, deer, groundhogs, rabbits, other garden pests. Insects are practically omnipresent, wreaking unspeakable havoc on landscapes. Find out all about garden pests in these resources on natural control and its alternatives.

Chemical, Organic Weed Control
Chemical and organic weed control tips for lawn and garden. Chemical weed killers (herbicides) for crabgrass, dandelion plants, poison ivy. Organic weed control for eradicating entrenched stands of Japanese knotweed, the "killer bamboo." Identification of weeds, including "good" weeds that are useful in organic weed control.

Info for Bonsai Plants, Bonsai Tree Care
The tools, pots and plant pruning techniques you'll need for the care of bonsai (bonzai) trees. These links provide photos and tips for bonsai tree care. Techniques cover both indoor and garden bonsai plants. Plants suited to bonsai pruning include ficus, azalea, Japanese maple trees, Chinese elm, bamboo, wisteria, gardenia and juniper.

Edible Landscaping - Edible Landscape
Sometimes you get a 2-for-1: plants look good, and provide you with edible landscaping, too! Such is the case with, e.g., blueberry bushes and fruit trees. Other times, you may simply conclude that landscaping should be practical, and you decide to plant edible landscaping as a matter of principle. And yet other times, nature dumps edible landscaping in your lap, in the form of edible "weeds."

Fall Colors, Fall Foliage Vines, Shrubs
Don't wait for fall to strive for displays of fall colors. Fall colors are provided by trees, shrubs and vines, but you must plan and plant ahead! Besides fall foliage colors, the berries of your plants must also be considered -- many berries provide striking fall colors. And don't forget gourds and pumpkins, you leaf-peepers! Fall also means landscape maintenance to prep for winter.

Hedge Plants, Fences for Privacy Fences
How to build privacy fences and how to grow hedges for privacy fences to screen out prying eyes.. Pruning tips for landscape trees, shrubs, vines, including revitalizing old bushes. Techniques for pruning topiaries. How to prune bushes, trees, vines and build fences for curb appeal. Trimmers for pruning topiary and hedges, fence options, discussed.

Compost, Mulches and Mulching
Two staples of land management are compost and mulches. Learn why composting and mulching are important and which methods for obtaining and applying compost and mulches are most suitable for particular needs.

Ground Covers, Vine Plants, Groundcover
Resource for ground covers (groundcovers), cover crops and vines. Introduction to soil management, info on issues such as companion planting with ground covers, and information on flowering vines. Requirements for specific ground covers, their maintenance and propagation, as well as the use of ground covers in problem areas. Soil preparation, fertilization and selection for cover crops.

Flower Gardening, Catalogs, Seeds
Tips for spring vegetable, fruit and flower home gardening, including online shopping resources, seed exchanges, sources for heirloom seeds and specialty garden plans. Shop for your seeds through online shopping catalogs. Learn how to grow garden vegetables, fruits and flowers. Discover the latest trend: Japanese gardens.

Garden Accents, Lawn Ornaments
Browse these sites for ideas on garden accents and lawn ornaments, whether it's chimineas, outdoor fireplaces, arbors, gazebos, weathervanes, sundials, windchimes, gazing balls, sculpture, birdwatching accessories, pergolas or other garden accents and lawn ornaments for yards, decks and patios.

Care for Houseplants - Indoor Gardening
Houseplant resources for those who like indoor gardening. Tips on care of houseplants. Effective indoor gardening can not only lift your spirits, but make your home an irresistible showcase, should you or a real estate agent show your house to potential buyers. But all of this relies on learning about houseplant care and landscape design indoors, or the "interiorscape."

Artificial Ponds, Pools, Water Gardens
Resources to help you build water features, including swimming pools. Whether you are a beginner who needs to find out how to install a water garden or fountain, buy a pump and choose aquatic plants, or a long-time water gardener seeking ideas for new plants or new artificial pond designs, these links will lend a guiding a hand. Also links to constructing artificial ponds, waterfalls.

History of Landscaping
How did lawns become a landscaping institution? How did ancient peoples landscape? Discover the history of landscaping: Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, mystery of Stonehenge and Hanging Gardens of Babylon -- one of the 7 Wonders of the world. Explore formal landscape design and the "Cottage Garden" revolt against it. Read about Linnaeus' system of scientific classification.

Tree Services, Arborists - Tree Removal
Trees are vital, but often tree removal is necessary. Learn what to look for in hiring tree removal services or arborists for tree removal, like clauses in their contracts. Limbing is less severe, but still check that tree services are insured. Tree stump removal can be performed by do-it-yourselfers, although tree services offer stump grinding; alternatively, rent your own stump grinders.

Landscape Designers Contractors Software
Landscaping contractors help find landscape designers. Landscaping contractors can save you money in the long run, by putting you in touch with the best local landscape designers. Landscape designers offer previews of projected landscape designs using landscaping software. Landscape architects help you raise real estate value, illustrating ideas with interactive landscaping software.

Rototilling, Soil pH, Fertilizers
These resources discuss soil pH, rototillers and garden fertilizers. Learn about acid-loving plants and plants that prefer a soil pH that is neutral or alkaline. Rototiller care, compost, cover crops, rototilling in spring and fall, organic garden fertilizers and mulching are related subjects.

Rose Bush Planting, Pruning, Care
How to grow rose bushes in the garden. Tutorials showing the steps from planting rose bushes in the garden to pruning them. Different landscape needs require different varieties, which include hybrid tea, polyanthas, floribundas and grandifloras. Rose color meanings offered for gift-buyers.

Top Picks - Gifts, Landscaping Supplies
Top Picks for consumers, whether buying landscaping supplies for themselves or buying gifts for loved ones. Your guide's landscaping supply choices are linked to fuller reviews for each product. Information on gardening books, chain saws, live animal traps, ratchet pruners, mulching lawn mowers, leaf vacuums and leaf blowers.

Apple Trees: Care, Pruning Fruit Trees
The following links provide resources for those who wish to landscape with fruiting trees and bushes, including apple trees. The information includes pruning and other tips in the care of fruit trees. In addition to providing edible landscaping, fruiting trees and bushes can enhance a landscape aesthetically if arranged and maintained properly.

Lawn Care, Lawn Mowers, Grass Types
Lawn care tips for beginners. Lawn mowing strategy explored, including use of mulching mowers. Lawn maintenance tips, including weed control, fertilizing, irrigation, lawn mower maintenance and -- if you're open to new ideas -- alternatives to grass lawns, such as ground covers, xeriscapes. Learn your grass types and implement the appropriate lawn care tips.

Landscaping Consumer Product Reviews
Read consumer product reviews before you shop. Don't know what to buy as a gift for that gardening friend or landscaping spouse? These consumer product reviews on books, tools, lawn equipment, snowblowers, ornaments and more will facilitate your decision. Consumer product reviews to guide your purchases of landscaping supplies, whether you're shopping for yourself or looking for gift ideas.

Curb Appeal Ideas, Landscaping by Region
Links to regional landscaping blogs and ideas for increasing real estate value through curb appeal. The real estate sites offer extensive directories on landscaping maintenance and home improvement topics, while consulting the regional landscaping blogs will ensure that you're tailoring your efforts to your own particular geographical region.

Fall Trees - Foliage of Fall Trees
Pictures and descriptions of fall trees for planting on your landscape for the most colorful fall foliage. Plant these fall trees and your fall landscape will bask in the glow of their autumn leaves. From the red and orange autumn leaves of maples to the yellows of aspen trees, don't miss out on the colorful displays you'll get by planting these magnificent fall trees!

Evergreen Trees - Evergreen Tree Care
Evergreen trees are saviors in winter, deserving of our care. Their foliage brightens winter landscapes and affords windbreaks that save us money on our fuel bills. As foundation plantings evergreen yew trees are receive pruning care to keep them shrub-size and obscure unseemly concrete. Evergreen trees are valued as components in privacy screens, or "living wall" privacy fences.

Tree Care - Caring for Ornamental Trees
Tree care runs the gamut from planting properly to pruning as needed -- or, if all else fails, tree removal. Learn how to transplant ornamental trees properly, and why Dutch elm disease devastated American elms. Reviews on pruning equipment included (chainsaws, pruners). Tips on hiring tree care professionals.

Flowering Trees - Flowering Tree Care
Descriptions and photos of flowering trees and tips on caring for them. Care begins with knowing where they grow best, including their planting zones. Included are dogwood, crabapple, mulberry and weeping cherry. Flowering trees are among the most prized specimens of the yard, making a bold statement and heralding the return of warmer weather in the North.