Essential Landscape Lingo: Gardeners
Gardeners, landscapers, and maintenance personnel helping to keep your outdoor spaces in tip-top shape will appreciate your knowing some common landscape care practices.
Essential Landscape Lingo: Contractors
From surveying your property to seeing new additions go in the ground, it’s helpful to know what will be on your contractor’s mind.
Essential Landscape Lingo: Nurserymen
Visiting a garden center, nursery, or home repair center is less daunting when you know how to interpret all of those labels and ask for what you want.
Essential Landscape Lingo: Designers
Learning the language of outdoor features will help ease communication with design-minded consultants.
Making a Plan for HOA Approvals
Follow along to make a scaled plan looking down at your yard from a bird’s eye perspective.
How to Take a Nature Adventure Without Leaving Home
There are many ways outdoor adventures benefit our physical and mental health, as well as our social well-being. Here are some creative ideas for how to take a nature adventure without wandering out into the wilderness.
Figuring Out What Goes Where
Explore the possibilities for your property through a fun, family-friendly activity — before spending a dime.
Maintenance Guide for Planted Areas: Caring for New Plants and Softscape
Properly caring for your planted areas will protect your investments well into the future. Run through our maintenance checklist to ensure a happy, healthy landscape.
Best Practices for Installing Plants
From selecting species to installing irrigation, professionals share best practices for properly installing new plants.
Mo' Water, Mo' Problems: the Benefits of Xeriscaping
Whether you live in a dry environment that doesn't receive much rainfall, or simply want to reduce your irrigation costs and efforts, xeriscaping may be just the thing you need.
Landscape Installation 101: Who Do I call?
Demystify the world of contractors, gardeners, landscapers, and trade specialists, and which is the best fit for your project.
Designing with Microclimates in Mind
The specifics of your property’s microclimate, or environmental variables, will inform the plants you select and where they best belong.
7 Survival Tips for Home Improvement Centers
Feeling confident navigating box home improvement stores is key to getting those great projects done. Here are seven shortcuts to get you in and out, fast.
How to Make a Kid-Friendly Yard
Thinking about your outdoor living spaces through little eyes creates very different spaces. Speaking from personal experience as parents and designers, here are our tips for planning around baby, toddlers, kids and teens in any size yard.
Finding the Right Expertise for Your Project
How to find the right professionals to bring your landscape projects to life.
3 Key Ways Plants Make You Healthier
From stress reduction to enhancing creativity, plants do so much more than simply add curb appeal to our homes.
Seasonal Curb Appeal: Designer Solutions for Every Home Style
A few easy changes to your front porch can maximize curb appeal as the seasons change.
For Inexpensive Holiday Entertaining, Forage in Your Yard
Take a fresh look at what may already be in your own backyard. Three foraging artists offer inspiration for easy, budget-friendly ideas to bring the outside in this holiday season.