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Eastern redbud trees and cultivars enrich landscape gardens with varieties of form, silhouettes and unusual seasonal color. Site selection is essential for good display.

When cold weather approaches, squirrels look for a warm place to hide and that could include an attic. Gardeners can do a few preventive things to keep squirrels a bay.

Cooler temperatures in the fall make it a pleasure to work outdoors. This is a great time to prune, clean-up, and protect against winter damage.

Rosemary is a large shrub with blue or white flowers. Rosemary is easy to grow in Texas, is generally disease and insect resistant, and can be harvested all year.

Historic and traditional garden landscapes in New England range from colonial times to modern times. Here is a survey of selected 19th century landscape styles.

April: Landscaping at Suite101 "Link of the Month." Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.

The core of Derek Fell's book "Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure" is an information bank of garden landscape photos, but the introduction is its foundation.

Disease and pest damages, mechanical injuries, and moisture and heat stresses initially appear trivial. Inspection keeps minor maintenance from becoming renovation.

Visitors to Arizona homes are often struck by the preponderance of rock in yards. But rock and gravel designs can be as aesthetically pleasing as a Japanese sand garden.

The Earth-Kind program provides gardeners up-to-date information on landscaping practices that help sustain the environment and offer a well-designed landscape.

Many gardeners are trying to save money on grocery budgets by growing Victory Gardens and adding edible plants to their home landscapes, and can try these tips.

Wave® petunias provide inexpensive and eye-catching design solutions. Develop and complete a project in one weekend using these planning tips. Photos provided.

Both a landscaping nuisance and a medicinal herb, chickweed spreads quickly but has many uses.

The mulch question for organic gardeners is not, "If?" but "What kind?" and "How often?" Choose from more than a dozen types of landscape mulch for weed control.

Carolina spicebush or sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) and its cultivars are large, hardy, shade-loving shrubs at home in hedges, mixed shrub beds and natural gardens.

For architectural structure in the cool perennial border or woodland garden, the pendulous mid-summer blooms of Monkshood are hard to beat.

Bringing color and individuality to your garden doesn't have to involve a horde of laborers and a big price tag.

Not keen on starting a vegetable garden that takes up a lot of space? Use flower beds to create an edible landscape!

Turn your front yard into an edible landscape instead of a nonproductive grass plot. It's good for the environment and good for you.

A review of "An Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden" by Derek Fell, over 800 photographs of landscape elements from A to W.

Although most gardeners are ready for a break as winter approaches, the garden does not have to be lackluster during the winter months. Simple ideas can add interest.

Gazing balls are enjoying a renaissance of use as landscape decorations. These strategically placed orbs bring drama to flower gardens, sitting areas, yards and walkways.

Making small landscape adjustments is a powerful way to save the planet and propel healthy energy.

Raised wood-framed garden plots offer a number of advantages for gardeners, including protection from animals, custom soil mixture, and an attractive look.

A Japanese-style garden may be appropriate for small spaces. Consider how water, rocks and gravel, and plants influence and contribute to a Japanese-inspired landscape.

Organic gardeners can shop for garden and landscape software that allows them to plan an entire garden design at once, avoiding piecemeal mistakes.

Low-maintenance plants are top choices for DIY landscape gardeners in designing a feasible landscape. They are no-nonsense picks for memorial and meditation gardens.

Modern low-maintenance plants surrounding walkway and patio edges in memorial and meditation garden designs convey intimacy. Choosing suitable garden plants is crucial.

Mulching practices that improve and support shrub and tree health are essential for DIY landscape gardeners who want to create good-looking but money-wise projects.

Some gardens come alive in the night. The timing of the flowers and plants with nightfall creates a night blooming garden. Night gardens are filled with purposeful life.

The charming Japanese Painted Fern is a hardy and colorful addition to any shade garden design.

Rain Gardens lower landscape maintenance time and costs while filtering and infiltrating water to improve water quality.

Combine landscape design principles with regionally adapted plants to personalize the sterile outside of a building with one's unique perspective on beauty and form.

As more people stay in their homes for the long term, how can they create a landscape that addresses the needs of the family without the cost? With a Landscape Designer.

Upright conifers are perfect complements to residential landscapes and gardens, providing strong vertical accents and year-round interest.

Weeds in garden landscapes are plants growing where they do not belong. Here are tips for effective removal and control strategies that can minimize maintenance.

Sweetfern, also known as Fern Gale, is an aromatic herb native to eastern North America, but is not actually a fern.

Everyone has different views and desires when it comes to color. Many landscape designers and garden architects prefer foliage color over flowering garden plants.

A gardening book that highlights garden planning, design, plant selection and special techniques shared by some of the top gardeners in America.

Beautiful seaside gardens need the correct garden landscape to thrive. Planning to counter wind, salt spray and soil problems will ensure a beautiful seaside garden.

Successful flower gardeners use both art and science to achieve their flower garden design goals, no matter what their garden style. You can, too.

Consider these planting ideas to soften the appearance of a sidewalk or finish a pathway garden. Flowering plant groupings make beautiful landscaped walkways.

Many gardeners are surprised to learn that there are varieties of hibiscus that will grow in cold climates - even where it snows.

Beacon Hill (Boston, MA) residents fashion hidden backyard gardens. Garden retreats come into being from small pieces of degraded urban soil and shaded settings.

Gardening at altitudes above 6500' is challenging, but with a little effort and proper plant selection, the rewards can be spectacular and unique.

The following highlighted garden may inspire you to create a sunken garden like the famous Butchart Garden in British Columbia - with a tropical landscape twist.

Want to know how to install a beautiful garden, backyard paradise, or botanic garden? First ask - do I use perforated, non-perforated, ADS or flexible drain pipe?

By planting less appealing landscape materials and using creative deer-startling effects, gardeners are more likely to thwart this common beast.

Landscape gardens with coordinated color present unified appearances and pleasing public images. Using color in the garden landscape calls for basic guiding principles.

Five historic landscapes symbolize five extraordinary couples. Historic landscapes and landscape gardens chronicle the fashions and trends of the times that shaped them.