Tips to Avoid Over Watering Your Landscaping in Spring

Tips to Avoid Overwatering Landscape

Even first-time gardeners understand the importance of watering plants.  However, many landscaping newcomers typically run into problems caused by over watering, rather than underwatering.  To help avoid this problem, we’ve put together a list of tips to avoid over watering your landscaping in spring. Work With Your Soil There are several different types of soil […]

The Ultimate Spring Gardening Checklist

Spring Gardening Checklist

As the weather begins to warm, it’s time to get out into the garden and prepare for another growing season!  In this article, we’ve put together the ultimate spring gardening checklist. Tidy Up The winter has probably deposited a lot of dead material around your garden.  Rake up any leftover leaves, broken branches and other […]

How to Increase Your Home’s Value With Landscaping

Increase Your Home's Value Through Landscaping

It’s often thought that kitchens and bathrooms are the best places to start when trying to increase the value of your property.  But there might be an even cheaper way of improving your selling price with a similar return on investment.  In this article, we’ll teach you how to increase your home’s value with landscaping. […]

What Is Topsoil Used For?

what is topsoil

Both new and experienced gardeners may use or come across terms that they don’t know the actual meaning of.  This is especially true for seemingly generic words that are often used to describe many different things.  Topsoil is one of these words.  In this article we’ll describe what topsoil is and what it is not […]

Rock vs Mulch: Which is Better?

Rock vs Mulch

Ground covering is used by gardeners for several different reasons.  It can help inhibit the growth of weeds, prevent soil erosion, reduce water evaporation or just plain make the area look nicer.  When it comes to choosing a type of ground covering, gardeners have long asked themselves, “Rock vs mulch:  Which is better?”  In this […]

Can You Plant In The Fall?

Fall Plants

Just because winter is fast approaching, doesn’t mean it’s the end of growing season! Find out what you can plant in the Fall.

Five Landscaping Tips to Prepare for Fall

Fall Landscaping Tips

As the days become cooler and the nights arrive earlier, it’s time to prepare your lawn and gardens for the change in seasons.  Just like you need a plan when winter turns to spring, you also need one for when summer turns to fall.  To help you get the most joy out of your lawn […]

Landscaping Tips for Small Yards

Landscaping Tips for Small Yards

Not everyone has a huge backyard. In fact, backyards appear to be shrinking in most modern urban environments. However, just because you have a small space to work with doesn’t mean you have to give up landscaping. You just need to slightly alter your practices. Here are some landscaping tips for small yards. Containers Using […]

How to Design a Zen Garden

How To Design A Zen Garden

Are you in search of a quiet, meditative place full of simple beauty? Look no further than a zen garden!