(ARA) – You only get one chance for your home to make a first impression. With a little help from Mother Nature, you can demand a second look from passersby with a show-stopping front yard.
“Every canvas needs to start fresh and clean,” says James A. Baggett, editor of Country Gardens Magazine. “So roll up your [...]

I am not a patient woman, at least when it comes to landscaping. I see the end result in my mind and I want to see it right away in my yard. I don’t want to wait for the years that it takes for a tree to reach maturity and I don’t want to [...]

Before you build a house, you go through so many tasks, formalities and plans. In fact, no home today can be built without a set of Government approved plans. You want to become an engineer, a doctor, an actor – you need to take a hold of your fate and plan for your dream career. [...]

So you’re all set to start your landscaping project. Or are you? You have a really good idea about what you need to buy, but could you answer how many square feet of pathways that you need to cover with gravel? You should definitely know exactly how much you’ll need in the way of supplies [...]

When someone builds a house they start with blueprints that show where every door and window will be placed and develop a floor plan to make sure interior traffic flow is smooth. When planning the layout of the yard, landscape drawings can be every bit as useful in making sure the traffic flow outside is [...]

It is important to develop landscaping plans otherwise you may end up finding later on that you are doing your landscaping in the wrong spot. Therefore, you end up wasting both your time and money on landscaping a yard that you are going to have to do all over again. You can prevent many mistakes [...]