Landscaping Pictures (53)
Need some free ideas for your front-yard design or some plant identifications? Browse through the landscaping pictures in these photo galleries. Analyses accompany the landscaping pictures in each photo gallery. Among the landscaping pictures are examples of arbors, fences, focal points and color options.
Landscape Design Ideas (207)
Let these free landscape design ideas, tips and pictures inspire you to get the most bang for your buck out of your landscaping. The landscape design ideas I offer run the gamut from the formal style to the English country cottage look to landscaping for wildlife.
Water Gardens, Rock Gardens (35)
Fountains, garden ponds and rock gardens are pleasing additions to a landscape design, relieving the eye from the monotony of plants. As a result, in garden ponds and rock gardens, whatever plants are present serve as accents. An extension of the idea of garden ponds is landscaping around swimming pools.
Landscaping Shrubs (141)
Flowering shrubs and evergreen bushes both have their place in landscaping. Many flowering shrubs attract birds with their berries and provide both fall foliage and winter interest. Evergreen bushes can be pruned into hedges or can function as privacy screens. Either flowering shrubs or evergreen bushes can stand alone as specimens used for focal points.
Landscape Plants (246)
Learn about ground covers, vines, low-growing annuals, perennials, herbs and other landscape plants. By "low-growing" I mean to exclude trees and tall shrubs. Intro to soil management, companion planting for landscape plants, sun and soil requirements for specific ground covers and other landscape plants, and the use of ground covers in areas with problems such as erosion included.
Landscaping Trees (135)
Information on the care for ornamentals, both flowering trees and evergreens, plus an introduction to fruiting specimens. Ornamental flowering trees can produce berries to attract birds, while evergreens offer year-round foliage. Dwarfs, weeping specimens, apple stock and ornamental trees valued for the shade they bring -- all are presented in light of what they can do for your landscaping.
Patios, Walls (56)
Hardscape (flagstone, brick or concrete patios, stone walls, etc.) complements your landscape gardening. Ideas for stone walls and patios, and masonry tips you need to build them. Step by step instructions for building simple brick patios and concrete patios, including cement-mixing tips.
Lawn Care Tips (87)
Lawn care tips for beginners. Lawn mowing strategy explored, including use of mulching mowers. Lawn grass 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 lawn grass types and implement the appropriate lawn care tips.
Fences, Driveways (34)
Information on building fences and walkways, and on driveway design and materials. Includes fence designs for different functions, popular fencing materials, professional installation versus DIY fence design, aesthetic considerations and common mistakes in building fences. Tips on driveway landscaping and on snow-removal options.
Decks, Arbors (17)
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 -- perhaps right over your decks!
Landscaping Problems (157)
Got landscaping problems? Unless you're hiring professionals to solve them, you need free landscaping ideas. These easy solutions to landscaping problems cover slopes, shade and drought, as well as poor, wet or eroding soils. Or perhaps you need free landscaping ideas for dealing with snow or tree removal? You'll find easy landscaping tips here for all these and more.
Yard Maintenance (117)
Tips on 4 seasons of yard maintenance, money-saving and safety. Yard maintenance is facilitated by equipment, so information is also provided on, e.g., lawn mower upkeep. From spring cleaning to summer irrigation, and from leaf-removal to snow-removal, I'll guide you through yard maintenance and money-saving ideas that will keep your landscape looking like $million -- but at a cheap cost.
Organic Pest Control (31)
Organic pest control explored, as well as pesticide options, to deal with moles, voles, deer, groundhogs, rabbits, insects and other garden pests. Organic pest control methods include live-trapping. Find out all about garden pests in these resources on natural control and its alternatives.
Organic Weed Control (75)
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.
Help for Beginners (247)
New to landscaping front yards and backyards? Discover some backyard ideas and learn landscape terms and scientific names. Beginners will find help through FAQs on front yard and backyard landscaping, and introductory pieces on landscape design, history and maintenance. You'll find access to book reviews and free online landscape design courses chock-full of backyard ideas.
