One garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show stopped visitors in their tracks, and it was not because of roses. Baz Grainger’s The Killik & Co ‘A Seed in Time‘ Garden featured 21 different species of ornamental grasses swaying in the spring breeze, and it signaled something that American gardeners have been quietly discovering on …
Landscaping
Garden landscaping is a must for every house: it will not only make your house better looking, but it will increase the value of your home.
Landscaping your garden doesn’t have to be expensive, or back-breaking. Little tweaks here and there, that you make over the years will make a difference.
From adding a few shrubs to planting some colorful annuals, you’ll learn a lot about garden landscaping for both large and small gardens.
Have fun creating a beautiful garden landscape around your property :)
Landscape irrigation accounts for roughly one-third of all residential water use in the United States, and according to the EPA, about half of that water is wasted through runoff, evaporation, or poorly timed systems before it reaches a single root. Xeriscaping is the practice that changes all of that. And no, it does not mean …
There is a greenhouse somewhere in your neighborhood that looks like it belongs in a magazine, and the woman who owns it will tell you she spent almost nothing on it. She will also tell you she uses it every single day, even in January, while most greenhouse owners quietly abandon theirs by October. The …
You probably assume tick bites happen on hiking trails and deep in the woods. They don’t. According to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, an estimated 75% of tick bites occur during normal activities in your own yard: playing with the dog, weeding the garden, or simply sitting on the patio. The ticks are already there, …
You just spent $30,000 renovating your kitchen, and your home’s appraised value barely moved. Meanwhile, your neighbor spread $80 worth of mulch over a single weekend, and her realtor told her she added $5,000 to her asking price. If that stings a little, it should. Most homeowners pour their improvement budgets into bathrooms and kitchens …
You finally installed that backyard fountain you saved on Pinterest three summers ago, but within a month, you are swatting mosquitoes every time you step outside. You are not imagining it; that beautiful water feature that you lusted after for so many years may be quietly working against you. Across the country, homeowners are discovering …
It’s not unusual for people to take their nightmare neighbor stories to Reddit to ask for help. In fact, you can find quite a few of them in an aptly named subreddit about them (IYKYK), but it’s unusual to find people posting about neighborly advice in the landscaping subreddit. However, that’s where user coltonamort ended …
Garden gnomes were banned from the Chelsea Flower Show for over a century. Now, the whimsical, the joyful, and the “that’s a bit much, isn’t it?” choices that real gardeners have been making for generations are finally getting the credit they deserve. This summer, the most fashionable thing you can do in your garden is …
Just about every town has at least one questionable feature that makes you wonder what the people in charge were thinking when they planned the layout. For one woman, the unfortunate design flaw has to be the hard-to-navigate corner that is just outside her property. Instagrammer Jessica Davis, who goes by the Instagram handle @jessicadavislansingogs, …
That gorgeous tree shading your back patio might be writing you a bill that you can’t afford. Foundation damage caused by tree roots is one of the most expensive and least visible threats to a home, and most homeowners never see it coming until doors stop closing, basement walls crack, or a home inspector delivers …