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 :)
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…
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…
Bamboo is often sold in stores in small and decorative containers so that people can bring a little bit of the lucky plants into their homes. In fact, some cultures believe that bamboo can be lucky when it is displayed with three or six stalks, and that it will bring wealth and prosperity to your…
A homeowner blamed his neighbor’s tree for making a mess around his swimming pool. The homeowner ultimately sought to have his neighbor’s tree removed outright. Instead, a tribunal found the pool itself had contributed to the problem. The affected parties were Allen Edward Blundell and Jason Nissen of Brisbane, Australia. Blundell sought an order requiring…
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…
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…
Cracks, a damaged fence, and other assorted problems around a 130-year-old home all led one Australian homeowner to point the finger of blame at six trees growing next door. Catherine Armstrong took neighboring property owners to court seeking removal of the trees and A$23,650.86 in repair costs, or about $16,500 USD. According to the Land…
One homeowner is facing an awkward conversation with neighbors after noticing that their rapidly growing grapevines are being trained along a shared garden fence. In a Sept. 21 Mumsnet post, the homeowner, using the name Fencegate, explained that the neighbors moved in about a year ago and have recently begun improving their previously unkempt garden….
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…