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How to Create a Colorful Fence Line Using Flowers A bright, sunny summer border planted along a fence line adds brilliant color and helps visually soften a fenced area. Fenceline planting also works to hide an otherwise unsightly fence. Creating a sunny border allows you to add color to a post-and-rail fence that shows off

Having your plants, shrubs and trees trimmed and pruned is an important part of tree health. It not only improves fruiting but can aid in protecting them from pests and diseases. However, the timing of trimming and pruning is vital to ensure beautiful, healthy, robust growth and productive plants, shrubs and trees. Best Time to

Money-Saving Landscaping Tips: How Landscaping Design Can Help Reduce Your Household Costs Can landscaping really make a difference in your household energy and water consumption? Can it reduce household costs? It certainly can. Simple things such as trees, shrubs and lawn plantings can moderate your property’s microclimate in both hot and cold weather and produce

Thoughtful and well-planned landscaping increases the curb appeal of your property and slashes your cooling bills in summer. Have you ever heard of passively cooling a house? The U.S. Department of Energy recommends using trees, shrubs, and vines to create an energy-conserving landscape that can reduce cooling bills by as much as 40 percent. Read

Alternatives to the Traditional Green Grass, Grasses with Color Green is typical, and ordinary when it comes to grass color. Luckily, there are many surprising and attractive types of grass that boast a myriad of color alternatives.  To give your garden or landscape an unexpected and captivating twist, consider installing some of the following choices into

How To Choose Ground Cover Plants A ground cover plant is a low-lying plant that covers a large area with thick growth. They are often evergreens and will survive winters, giving them an advantage over shorter-lived plants in the early spring. They tend to have thicker growth than other plants, providing a dense carpet effect

Introducing the Japanese Maple The Japanese Maple is a tree that can provide an exotic look to your garden at a minimal cost. You can grow full-sized trees or smaller ones to fit the sheltered corners of your garden. They are also perfect for growing in containers both inside and outside. Japanese Maple is a

To rake leaves in the fall or spring? That is a question many homeowners ask. It’s that time of year again. Autumn brings with it such beauty, and it can be mesmerizing watching the colorful leaves fall off the trees, but there are also downsides to leaves being on the ground. If you like to