When I first started gardening, I felt like all I wanted to do was plant bright, happy flowers. Shade gardens seemed a little too sleepy to me. With a little…
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Ornamental Grasses – Update Your Curb Appeal
If your garden is getting a little tired, or just needs a little “more”, take a design trick from the pros. Add ornamental grasses! They contemporize any garden style, are…
Cold Hardy Outdoor Tropical Plants for Your Garden!
Tropical plants are an amazing statement to add to any garden, offering exotic design sense and wonderful texture and color. Ok, we love ’em ’cause we can pretend to be…
DIY Garden Arbor Ideas & Step by Step Tutorial
This is a great time of year to tackle some of those bigger garden projects that have been on our “want” list. A bigger project doesn’t mean that it has…
How to Install & Use Shade Sails
Steve and I were looking for an outdoor patio cover that was a little different, and that didn’t require major construction either. We found it in patio shade sails. Popular…
How To Make DIY Garden Stepping Stones
Stepping stones in a garden can create a path, walkway or patio, or simply point the way on a visual trail through your garden. They make a great DIY project…
How to Lay Sod in 6 Easy to Follow Steps
If you need to lay a new lawn, or repair or replace an old one, there is no faster way to get it established then laying sod. It’s not a…
How To Prune Trees • When To Prune Trees
Lets touch base about how to prune trees, because it is one of those gardening chores that must be done at a certain time of year. If you have run…
DIY Garden Waterfall Projects
If you’ve been thinking about starting a water feature project in the garden this season, have you thought about adding the sights and sounds of an outdoor waterfall to your…
When to Cut Back Ornamental Grasses
Ornamental grasses are popular in both home and commercial landscaping, and with good reason. They are an attractive way to add texture, height and contemporary style to any landscape or…
How to Grow Cactus Plants (or even a Cactus Garden!)
Cactus gardens are amazing, gorgeous, and nature’s miracle all in one. If you think that growing cactus plants in your garden isn’t possible, think again. Cactus and succulents are one of…
DIY Wooden Pallet Garden Ideas
Everywhere you look these days, one thing is clear, everyone is using wood pallets for DIY projects! It makes sense. You can up-cycle and get something cool for free… what’s…
How To Cover Ugly Metal Fence Posts With Wood!
Many areas of the country use metal fence posts for wood fences, to provide a strong, long lasting post that stands up to wind and sun rot. The only problem…