This week we’re featuring some beautiful Springtime blooms from around the world – we hope you enjoy!

photo credit: CoreForce

photo credit: CoreForce
Crabapple Tree:

photo credit: Carissa GoodNCrazy

photo credit: Shootingsnow
Pomegranate Bloom

photo credit: patti haskins

This week I thought I’d post pictures of my very favorite trees for landscaping – weeping willows…
“weeping willows on a path:”

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“Getty Museum orange leaves glowing:”

photo credit: Lindsay N. Kelly
“Weeping Willow:”

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“Boston Common Pond:”

photo credit: jillclardy

This week we’ve picked our favorite water gardens, fountains, and plants to show off here – enjoy!
Fountain in the Children’s Garden in the Conservatory

photo credit: unforth
Water Curtain

photo credit: unforth
Lotus in a Pond

photo credit: Sudhamshu
Morning Glory

photo credit: sherrattsam

Thinking of adding trees to your landscape?  Take a look at these beautiful photos of trees that we picked from flickr, enjoy their beauty, and maybe even get some ideas brewing!

photo credit: ny156uk

photo credit: mrhayata
Although this looks like a park, creating natural overhead arches with trees is always a great way to create [...]

Welcome to the first in a weekly series where we display our favorite flickr landscaping photos each week – we hope you find some beauty, ideas, and inspiration in them!

photo credit: Ganymedes Costagravas

photo credit: La Citta Vita

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TV Designer Improves Curb Appeal by Focusing on the Details
(ARA) – How does a real-life home makeover with a celebrity designer play out when the television cameras aren’t rolling?
The Villaluna family of San Marino, Calif. found out when Chayse Dacoda, an L.A.-based author and designer on the home improvement television series “While You Were [...]

Here’s a photo that was taken this week by Dario Dzimbeg and I knew I had to share it. Here’s a picture of an amazing Irish garden – how’s that for meticulous landscaping??

I’ve gotten some great photos of how to use rocks effectively in landscaping that might get some ideas flowing for your next landscaping project. These pictures show how you can easily change your landscape with one nice garden rock, or how you can take up a rock garden project and completely reinvent a part [...]

I’m in Oklahoma, and we’ve gotten our share of ice this week - a bit dangerous – but it can be beautiful!  Here are some icy photos taken around the U.S. this week for you:
Ice Storm photos taken by Julia Freeman-Woolpert in Concord NH:

Snow Branches by Sandra Preusche in San Antonio, TX:

Cracked Ice (Ice on a Colorado River) [...]

When landscaping this year, don’t forget to add a healthy dose of evergreens to the mix.  That way you can have a lush white and green winter wonderland as opposed a dull yard for the winter – you’ll be glad when your yard resembles this!