Front Yard Landscaping Lessons – The First Step

To create inviting, attractive, and easy entryway to your home and property, functionality of the landscape should be your first concern. Plants and other elements should be secondary concerns. And since the main function of front yard landscaping is generally access to the home, our first design focus would be how and where are we going to enter and exit our homes.

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Landscaping Tips – Hiring The Right Landscaper

Although we live in a do-it-yourself culture, there are sometimes when it pays to hire a professional. Landscaping can be a perfect example of this. A quality landscaper will have equipment, know how, design skills, and talents to transform your property into a living show piece.
Landscaping can be complicated and labor intensive. It can require specialized tools and equipment. Landscaping is    .. more ...

Front Yard Landscaping Ideas – Tips For Foundation Planting

In my last article on front yard landscaping I discussed laying out driveways and sidewalks as your starting point and how it could possibly help create the entire framework for your front yard design. So assuming that you're to that point, we'll move on to a few considerations of a major secondary element. Plants.When choosing and setting out plants in the front yard or any landscaping for that    .. more ...

Using Other Peoples Landscaping Pictures To Design Your Landscape.

One of the most common searches on my site is for pictures of landscaping. So I know that a lot of folks rely on photos of other peoples designs to get ideas. But at the same time, while I do have a large picture directory of other peoples projects on my site, the most common questions I receive are still related to specific shapes and design ideas.

It would seem that with as many pictures of    .. more ...

Front Yard Landscaping Ideas – Driveway Access

In creating a convenient, inviting, and attractive entryway to your home and property, you should first think about functionality and then plants and materials later. With the main function of front yard landscaping generally being access, our first design focus would be how and where we enter and exit our homes.
To what extent you can plan the front yard may be limited by some landscaping    .. more ...

Landscaping Plants – Using Green As A Color

Color is undoubtedly the most effective design ingredient in creating a garden. And plants are overall the easiest and most influential factor where color and variation can be established and managed.
However, for countless gardeners and home landscapers in their quest for the most perfect color combinations, there is another segment to plants that is often neglected as a design instance. And    .. more ...

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