FREE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: Plants, Design Ideas, Gardening Solutions & More!With more people living in urban areas and lot sizes shrinking, smaller-sized plants have become more popular than ever. Trees are an essential part of any landscape, providing structure, cooling shade, and habitat for birds...
Outline: Start with a rough sketch of your property or area to be worked on. This doesn’t have to be to scale at this point, but should include any permanent features such as your house, shed, large trees or shrubs that are staying in place, areas that are currently paved, patios, ...
A well-crafted Landscape Plan helps you materialize your visual design ideas. With a Landscape Plan, you can utilize the area most prominently. The moment you finalize your Landscape Plan, you will automatically get a list of the things you need to purchase that will go along in your la...
When you hear the word “landscape,” your mind likely summons a vast and sprawling natural expanse, perhaps with trees and rolling hills. © Brian Matiash It’s OK; the same thing happens with me when I think of that word. I believe that it has become a bit of a knee-jerk ...
Ideas for sustainable landscape range from fruit trees to worm bins.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)Jackson, Joan
When you start looking at different landscape design ideas, you may soon realise that many of them are targeted towards homeowners with large, sprawling sections. While it’s true that you can do a lot more with a much larger area, that doesn’t mean you are greatly limited with a smaller...
Dive into Planner 5D's built-in library, packed with a vast array of decorative items. From trees to flower beds, choose elements that align with your vision and strategically place them throughout your landscape. 3 See How It Looks In Virtual Reality ...
can be transformed into a beautiful and functional space. Consider various landscape design ideas, such as planting lush greenery, a fruit or vegetable garden, adding privacy screens or decorative fencing, or installing a low-maintenance paver walkway with large format slabs atop a bed of pebbles....
When considering what types of plants to install into your yard, think about planting native species. A good gardener will use native plants species when considering trees, grasses, flowing beds, shrubs, and berry bushes. Native wildlife will be familiar with the local plant sources of rich foo...
Even dead trees can have a place in the garden. Particularly trees with nest cavities. If the tree is not a hazard keeping it as part of the habitat will reward you in ways unexpected. Acorn woodpeckers are a keystone species with many other birds dependent upon their nest cavities to make...