Articles related to "Landscaping Designs"

Landscaping a home requires a significant investment of time and resources. Using landscape design software helps create an over-all plan before buying plants.

By re-doing the front yard with a new walkway, flagstone path and creative garden design, you'll create a landscape that will get rave reviews from the neighbors.

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

Landscaping designs utilizing artificial grass enable the front yard to look great all year around. Synthetic turf is waterless and an asset to any landscaping design

Multiple characteristics allow witch hazels to fill garden niches and extend landscape interest to four seasons. Effective use depends upon siting and use in a landscape.

An outline and checklist to avoid common problems in the landscape design process. Using this list avoids frustrating and often costly problems.

Call it Gardening 101 - even the greenest beginner can learn how to have a beautiful yard that will be the envy of neighbors. And it doesn't have to cost a fortune.

Consider home garden designs to include interesting and colorful trees, shrubs and even vegetable plants that need little winter care and bring ife to the cold months.

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.

The options for creating a residential landscape are almost infinite. Professional landscape architects consider needs and possibilities in landscape design.

Refresh a lackluster front or back yard by understanding current garden issues and then choosing more suitable plants, shrubs and trees.

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

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

Use these simple landscape design concepts to lay out a flowerbed in the right location, that's harmonious in size and shape, and enhances your overall landscape.

Designing a garden in the Capitol City and other hot summer climates can prove challenging. Read on for tips that will help to produce a landscape that thrives.

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.

Knowledgeable plant selection leads to dynamic garden landscape designs. One key decision factor is knowledge of site environment.

Recognize plant characteristics and functions; identify roles plants play in specific landscape designs. Informed plant selection leads to successful garden landscapes.

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

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.

Government and private groups work to bring color to highway and commercial landscapes. Annual poppies add flair and dazzle to large wildflower plantings.

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.

Here are some of my favorite basic books about landscape and garden design that have prominent places on my bookshelf. I reach for them first.

The all-white garden is calming to the eyes. Its purity is beautiful in the landscape. White gardens are easily created in a small pocket of the garden or a long border.

Wave® petunias solve many garden landscape color and design problems. Plant them in containers or garden plots, alone or with other ornamental plants. Photos included.

The Wilson Memorial Garden in Chipping Campden celebrates the work of "Chinese" Wilson who introduced over 1,000 garden-worthy species from China to western horticulture

"Chinese" Wilson's first trip to China for Harvard's Arnold Arboretum (MA) began in January 100 years ago. His goal? Introduce Asian plants to western landscapes.

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

Choosing optimal site and microclimate for Hamamelis (witch hazel) planting locations facilitates growth and generates best spring and autumn performance.

Hamamelis (witch hazel) species and varieties bring interesting forms, flower and leaf gold to temperate landscapes when gardeners least expect color and fragrance.

The Kohan Japanese Internment Memorial Reflection Gardens in Canada's West Kootenay region are designed to make travelers aware of tragic WWII event in Canadian history.

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

Landscape designs for large areas need trees like oaks (Quercus spp.) that are in proportion to the design and relatively maintenance-free. Oaks provide color and shade.

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

Gardeners in the American West have soils and a climate that are ideal for most Artemisa species. In fact many Artemisias are native to the American West.

Rocks are an important part of landscaping. They are both beautiful and functional, and can be used to edge garden beds and paths, create a rockery or as a lawn feature.

Here and in future articles, we learn how to landscape, step-by-step, a relatively new house in Charlottesville, VA (plant hardiness zone 7).

Organic gardeners can plant wildflower meadows as a low maintenance lawn alternative. However, wildflowers need a modicum of care to improve blooming and prevent weeds.

Holiday landscapes and decorations in the Colonial Williamsburg Christmas Look highlight this first Web Site of the Month topic for Landscaping at Suite101.

Michaelmas daisies shout that autumn has arrived. The garden landscape fills with color and autumn landscaping design ideas are abundant.

Beautiful, healthy landscapes that require very little supplemental water can be achieved with proper planning, soil preparation and plant selection.

Many flower gardeners worry about their garden design skills. Be brave! You can do this just fine with a little practice (and a good sharp transplanting spade!)

Many benefits are enjoyed by home gardeners who erect a sturdy, high-quality greenhouse in their own yard. Greenhouse kits come in many shapes and sizes.

Learn landscape design for a culinary cooking garden and have a supermarket in the backyard.

When most people think of dogs and gardens, they think of their dog digging up the bulbs they have so carefully planted moments before. It doesn't have to be that way.

For a peaceful garden retreat that relieves stress and increases property values, a creative garden plan incorporates good tree choices, patio design and more.

For the rose-challenged gardener, or those who can't devote a lot of time in caring for more traditional roses, the Knock Out Rose delivers long-season bountiful blooms.

With urban sprawl on the rise, Landscape Architects are in very high demand. It is a career with a strong future. Harvard agrees. They offer a Landscape Architect Degree.

Sweeping landscape plantings of the corn (Flanders's Field poppy) and its cousins are a knockout. These plants are true annuals though they may live for several seasons.

Many internet sites offer garden landscape photographs for inspiration and design ideas. Here is a selection of them reviewed on cost, user-friendliness and practicality.