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Landscaping Videos, Overviews

Viewing videos of a particular landscaping chore can help you understand a project better, before you begin it. I have also included photo galleries here serving as overviews (on the plants to choose from for landscaping projects, as well as on how America landscapes). View my landscaping videos and photos before you give your yard that next facelift.

How-To Videos

Are you just a beginner at gardening and maintaining a yard? Viewing some landscaping videos may help get you on the right track with your yard work. For example, are you afraid to transplant that shrub that you know needs to be moved, because it's right in the way when you mow the lawn? Consult the video, "How to Transplant Shrubs" to learn how.

Landscape Plant Pictures

Each entry in this resource is used as a representative for an entire group of plants (e.g., coreopsis represents perennials). When you click on one of the plants featured in this photo gallery, you'll be led to information about similar specimens and how to use them in your yard. Use this tool as an overview of landscaping plant choices.

The American Yard

Is there anything else that says "Americana" quite like historic Route 66? I traveled the famed highway with camera in hand to see if I couldn't gain a sampling of the American yard. I wanted to determine what Americans were using to decorate their properties and how the nature of the plant material would change as I drove from the upper Midwest to Southern California.

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