Landscaping Designs For Your Backyard

To the majority of Americans, Backyard landscape Designs are sort of a new thing. Most of them have a boring and a non-descript Backyard that, in more than one way, resembles their neighbors. Granted, Backyard Landscaping tends to be a little more...

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Designing With Plants - Shape and Form

Designing with Plants using their shape or form can be an excellent way of creating structured and interesting focal points within a landscape and garden design. Some Plants have naturally interesting shapes with interesting leave patterns. Others can...

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The Delight of a Courtyard Landscape Design

Court Yard. The very word stirs the imagination. What comes to mind when you think of a courtyard? Is it a royal garden? A secret place? A sanctuary? Even an outdoor sitting room or retreat might be imagined. If your garden or the architecture of your...

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Designing With Plants - Foliage Colour

Designing with Plants using Foliage Colour can significantly improve the visual appearance of your landscape or garden design. Foliage Colour can be used to provide subtle or contrasting Colour variations and or provide visually aesthetic focal points...

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The Importance and Benefits of Landscaping

Why Landscaping? Landscaping is not only for the homes, but also for all places with green spaces. It does much than just to decorate our properties and to increase its value. Landscaping is an integral part of every culture. It plays an essential role...

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Landscaping With Roses

Landscaping and the use of Roses is one way to add color and beauty to any yard. Part of the Landscaping plans should include Roses of some kind to blend in with you other Landscaping plants and flowers. The long blooming Roses that are available today...

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Landscape Garden Design – The Difference between a Good Garden and a Great One

A Garden can be a thing of beauty: provided a little care and attention goes into its creation. That's where Landscape Garden Designs come into play – the difference between creating a Garden in a considered fashion and just letting things grow. With...

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Collecting Wild Plants For the Landscape

When a gardener asks me how to collect Plants in the wild I'm apt to say "Don't do it." This answer is not prompted by any view of conservation, but one of dollars and cents and labor. Just figure it out for yourself. For one, or a few Plants you...

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Advantages of Teak Patio Furniture Over Other Material

Snow was all over the place few weeks ago, and now when I see up towards clean blue sky, I could not wait to celebrate and enjoy my outdoors. Spring is here and it is time to prepare my outdoor Patio, look after my flowers and above all look for a good...

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Shaded Landscaping Plants - Choosing the Right Plants for Your Garden

When it comes to Gardening, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control the weather? Even though that's obviously not possible, there are things you can do to get your Plants the proper amount of sun and shade. It's important to choose the correct Plants...

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Looking for just the right landscaping plant?

Finding the perfect landscaping plant is not such an easy job. There are so many different plants for you to choose from and each will have its own special ways that make is a great find for your yard. You can choose any kind of landscaping plant that...

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Using Garden Design Software to Maintain a Summer Garden

A Garden is always a lovely way to brighten or update any home's landscape. However, it can be overwhelming to plan and maintain a Garden. First, one must decide not only what they wish to plant, but also consider many factors such as climate, light,...

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Tips For Designing an Awkwardly-Shaped Vegetable Garden

When Designing and starting a vegetable Garden in any urban setting it can be an awkward yet rewarding experience. Urban Garden enthusiasts have several issues to consider during the planning stage. First and foremost consider the aesthetic value of...

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How Landscaping Increases Home Value

The right Landscaping choices can increase the value of your property by tens of thousands of dollars. In fact, Landscaping is one of the few improvements that you can make to your property that will increase the value immediately, but also the value...

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Principles of Landscape Design

If you've decided to Design your own outdoor space, you have a lot of decisions to make like choosing plants, Designing features, and working around existing features. However, if you take the time to understand these basic Design Principles, Designing...

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Landscaping - Tree, Shrub, and Flower Planting and Care

Many people do not see the benefits and affordability in adding shrubbery, Flower plants, and trees to their Landscaping. Having a well kept and diverse yard can make your home more appealing, and can make it more enjoyable for the family to spend time...

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Landscaping Design - How to Avoid a Kitsch Landscape

You can create a chic Landscape without turning it into a Design disaster. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "kitsch" is defined as "sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts." Applying this term to the...

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3 Common Landscape Design Mistakes - Thinking Like a Residential Landscape Designer

Home Landscape Designs have greatly transformed over the years. With the popularization of hardscaping, backyard Landscapes can be taken to all new levels. Unfortunately, whether homeowners are pursuing small or large scale Landscape projects, many of them are making the same common landscaping Mistakes. When creating your next Landscape, avoid these 3 common landscaping Mistakes. How To Choose The...

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New Look Landscape Garden Designs in Time for a Fresh British Summer

As summer starts to approach, slowly but inexorably peeking its leaves and shoots out of the branches of trees that have lain bare all winter, the nation's home owners start thinking about their Gardens and outside spaces again. Now is the time of year to think about overhauling – to get Landscape Garden Designs created and in place before planting time is gone. With plenty of UK families now staying...

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Landscape symbols - shorthand for plant and design

Creating your personal dream theme using beautiful sexy patio Chairs and Outdoor furniture... Patio, pool or Garden spaces are a pleasant way for family and friends to unwind. You will want to show off your special Garden theme that is romantic and...

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Tropical Backyard Landscaping - Creating An Exotic Backyard Resort Even If You Don't Live in Florida

Tropical resorts in the Islands represent some of the most popular vacation destinations in the world. Every year millions of busy, over-stressed people choose to spend their precious vacation time unwinding at tropical locales. Why? What makes these...

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Choosing Plants For Desert Landscaping

There are all types of Landscaping and one is Desert Landscaping. People love it because it is something different and because the Desert Plants used are so efficient. The Desert garden idea is a very popular one these days and there are lots of Plants...

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Plant Flowers to Climb Your Garden Obelisks

Annual and perennial vines have long been used to cover unsightly walls or structures in the landscape. The vines soften the hard architectural lines of fences and buildings. They create living sculptures of other structures, such as Garden Obelisks, ramshackle sheds, outbuildings, tree stumps, and assorted "cast-offs" given new life in the Garden. Use Garden Obelisks to create a vertical growing...

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Landscape planting rules - Location Determines Using

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