You have beautifully landscaped your house, carefully designing and implementing the garden of your dreams. But the unsightly utility box continues to stick out, seemingly mocking you every time you step outside to enjoy your lovely garden. How can you possibly disguise the necessary eyesore? After all, it’s designed for, well, utility, not aesthetics. As …
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 :)
Pollinators are small creatures with a big impact. In fact, they are responsible for about one of every three bites of food we eat! Most of the flowering plants on earth–including the ones we depend upon for food–rely on bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and other animals in order to reproduce. Unfortunately, many of these important …
You step outside one morning, coffee in hand, and spot a small rabbit tucked beside your garden bed. A few weeks later, there are two. While rabbits can be a beautiful sight, they can also be quite destructive. Then a tiny nest appears under the shrubs. Suddenly, your patch of green doubles as a rabbit …
It’s officially fire season, with the devastation affecting families across the country. Many fire experts and news outlets like The Dirt say that a smart “landscape approach”—careful planning of vegetation buffers and home hardening—can significantly slow wildfire spread and protect neighborhoods. Wildfires are, well, wild. If a flame catches the edge of your property, everything …
A Chesapeake, Virginia, homeowner was fined $50 after he failed to appear in court on July 8 to answer for a debris-filled yard that neighbors have called a junkyard, according to WAVY. Blair Hess now faces a civil charge of debris accumulation on his property on Tyre Neck Road. Now it’s up to the city …
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? While we may never know the answer to that age-old question, we do know what happens when a man cuts trees down without a homeowner’s permission. That’s because a Kentucky man is facing thousands of …
A South Milwaukee homeowner is experiencing some emotional whiplash after going up against the local government. The City of South Milwaukee sent out a legal notice to a local couple, ordering them to take down a collection of giant skeletons they had displayed in front of their home. However, local NBC outlet TMJ4 reports that …
There’s something timeless about an old oak tree. Maybe it’s the swing that hangs from one of its branches, the cool shade it casts on summer afternoons, or the way it’s quietly witnessed years of backyard memories. But when it comes to landscaping beneath one, things get tricky. You might picture a lush, green lawn …
Perfect for a sunny garden, irises produce beautiful, stunning flowers from the late spring into the summer, depending on the type of iris you chose. But what plants should you plant nearby, so your garden isn’t just full of irises? Finding unique companion plants for these flowers is easy when pairing them with other plants …
After watching @buildsbykristen carve out a backyard paver path with headphones and a yoga pose, a whole chunk of the internet had one collective thought: “Phenomenal!” Her results were clean, sharp, and oddly satisfying. She didn’t need a bulldozer; her crew was a shovel and a hand tamper that probably counts as a workout. Inspired …