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Too Many Pavers?

March 29, 2011

Yesterday I talked about some of the great ways you can use pavers to increase the the visibility of your landscaped yard and enhance the visual appeal of flowers and shrubs but, have you thought about what to do it you areas in your landscaping simply have too many pavers. Maybe you got carried away [...]

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Finishing Touches To Landscaping

March 28, 2011

Creating a walkway to the backyard, the front door or even just to the garage is a great opportunity to put an exclamation point to your beautiful landscaped yard and highlight your home at the same time. Using pre-cut pavers offers you the most choice in color and material as well as shape and cost. [...]

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Gardening Snippets – Compost

March 27, 2011

It was a busy week this week, what with homeowners chomping at the bit because spring is finally here and we can see the ground. Everyone want to get into their gardens, start raking winter’s debris from under bushes and get to the work of finishing last years unfinished landscaping projects. Tom Watson recently published [...]

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Integrating Vegetable Gardens Into Landscape Design

March 25, 2011

From time to time I will pass by a home where they have integrated their vegetable garden into their landscaping design, making it part of the presentation. Over at HGTV they have one example Attractive Vegetable Garden that just might give you some ideas. I’ve heard of people putting winding raised stone walkways through their [...]

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Gardening On Slopes

March 24, 2011

I ran across a good video about gardening on slopes..  It’s just over five minutes and is produced by the Extension Service in Nebraska…

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Adding Veggies To Your Landscaping

March 24, 2011

Traditionally people have kept their vegetable gardens separate from the rest of their yard but, more and more people are integrating tomatoes, peppers and other types of veggies into their flower beds and landscaping plans. For those who don’t have room for a separate vegetable garden this works out to be a really good idea. [...]

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Mulch Creates Beauty While Adding Nutrients

March 23, 2011

Mulch has that unique ability to stabilize not only the visual aspects of your landscaped area but it also stabilizes and nurtures the soil that it covers as it discomposes. It’s easy to forget the benifits you and your soil derive when you practice a well thought out mulching plan for your yard. We all [...]

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Do You Have Mulch Volcano’s ?

March 22, 2011

With spring  just around the corner (in spite of yesterday’s little snow storm) it is a great time to refresh your best mulch practices before you grab a rake and head out to care for your gardens and landscaped areas. I’m have no idea where the term Mulch Volcano came from but it does a [...]

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A Few Mulch & Landscaping Thoughts

March 20, 2011

Mulch is without a doubt beneficial to your landscaping ecosystem, it retains ground moisture and adds much needed nutrients to the soil, but it can also lead to some unintended things like root rot if you are not careful when you spread the mulch around. I came across a quick article For The Tree’s Sake: [...]

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Urban Gardens Catch On (Again)

March 19, 2011

No matter where people live they will find a way to garden and landscape just for the beauty of it. Spending weekends and evenings during the few months of summer is a way of expressing yourself and a way of connecting with the plot of land be it big or small we call our own. [...]

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