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.

Jan 2, 2009 - Shelley Aylesworth-Spink

Learn about different ideas to landscape the hardscape in the entrance of your home.

Nov 29, 2010 - Tenay Brown

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

Oct 19, 2009 - Barbara Brown

Using a landscape designer not only enhances the appearance of the home, but also raises the market value as well.

Jul 24, 2010 - Blanca Sola

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.

Oct 31, 2009 - Barbara Brown

Stone walls have been used for centuries as boundary markers, retaining walls and the walls of homes. Today's stone retaining wall designs bring this art to the present.

Dec 9, 2009 - Sarabeth Asaff

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.

Oct 30, 2006 - Georgene A. Bramlage

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

Feb 23, 2007 - Georgene A. Bramlage

For most homes, creating a landscape with curb appeal comes down to color, texture and variety in gardens, as well as in the front entry of the house.

Aug 7, 2010 - Teri Larsen

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.

Oct 1, 2008 - Laurence O'Sullivan

Careful planning is a key ingredient for uniting all the elements that make up a beautiful garden.

Mar 13, 2011 - Ron Renzulli

This smart guide to home landscaping explains how to landscape a yard and design a garden in simple steps.

Apr 30, 2009 - Trevy Thomas

Landscape architects and designers play different roles in helping to solve specific problems, set priorities and create ideal landscapes.

Jan 19, 2007 - Georgene A. Bramlage

Include a wetland garden as part of a home landscape design. Think about existing plants, light and dark zones, and wet and dry zones in the wetland garden.

Apr 24, 2011 - Tricia Edgar

Twentieth century New England garden landscapes show diversity that demonstrates society's expanding financial and social bases. Here are four such historic designs.

May 16, 2007 - Georgene A. Bramlage

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

Jan 30, 2008 - Georgene A. Bramlage

Create patios, walkways, walls, and other landscape features from stone.

Apr 27, 2010 - Trevy Thomas

Modular homes look just like traditional homes and can be decorated in almost the same manner. There are added benefits to modular homes.

Nov 22, 2010 - Tenay Brown

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

Aug 12, 2009 - Catherine Mezensky