Five Tricks To Make Your Landscaping Look Expensive
To help you create an upscale outdoor space on the cheap, we’ve put together a list of five tricks to make your landscaping look expensive.
How to Choose a Garden Border for Your Landscaping
Garden borders are both functional and fashionable; they help to keep the soil in place while reducing erosion and also act as an eye catching delineation between one part of your yard and another.
Top Tips For Planting Around Windows
While plants look great around most areas of our houses, you have to think of them a bit differently when they’re placed close to your windows. For some top tips for planting around windows, check out this list. Mature Plant Size It’s important to know how large your plants will grow before setting them in […]
Four Important Things to Consider When Planning Your Landscaping Design
Putting in a bit of thought before spending a bunch of money can result in a much more cohesive and pleasing landscape design. In this article we’ll discuss four important things to consider when planning your landscape design.
How to Evaluate Colour in Landscaping Design Projects
Colour plays an integral role in landscaping design. The colours chosen for plants, hardscaping and other accessories will lend a specific mood to the space. What that mood is is up to you. But how to achieve that mood is largely dictated by your use of colour.
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Gardeners
To help you out with your new year garden planning, we’ve put together a list of 5 New Year’s resolutions for gardeners.
What are the Best Ornamental Grasses for Landscaping?
When it comes to landscaping, balance is often key. You want a fair mix of softscaping and hardscaping components. When choosing your plants, you want variety, but not chaos. Ornamental grasses work as a good transition between your lawn and the larger plants. Since ornamental grasses are seldom trimmed or used as a groundcover, they […]
Top Facts About Hardscaping
We’ve all heard of landscaping even if we don’t have a thorough understanding of what it entails. The fact is that landscaping is composed of two distinct and contrasting elements: softscaping and hardscaping. In this piece we’ll be focusing on the latter and list some top facts about hardscaping. What Is Hardscaping? Hardscaping refers to […]
How to Prepare Your Plants for Cold Weather
Preparing your plants before winter arrives will help ensure they return with plenty of vigour come spring. All your plants should receive some pre winter care whether you’re dealing with trees, grass, annuals or perennials. To help educate you on how to prepare your plants for cold weather, we’ve put together this article. Grass As […]
October Landscaping Ideas
Although we’re pretty close to the end of the planting season, there are still many landscaping jobs that can be done in October. From preparing your yard for winter to getting in those last cold hardy plants or decorating for Halloween, this season still provides enough tasks to keep you busy. To help you plan […]