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Edible Landscaping
Create a delicious and beautiful edible garden with these 23 ornamentals plus edible landscaping design tips.
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Layered Landscaping: Garden Planning from Tall to Small
Learn about layered landscaping; using a balanced combination of small, medium, and tall plants to create a stunning layered garden for all seasons.
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Trees with Beautiful Bark
Cold weather leaves many trees simply looking bare, but these trees with beautiful, unusual, smooth, shaggy, peeling or colorful bark can enhance the appearance of your winter landscape for decades to come.
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9 Simple Garden Edging Ideas
Garden edging ideas to create a modern border around your garden. From free to very expensive. There’s no need to hire a landscape designer!
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4 Tricks for Hiding Utility Boxes
A stark metal transformer box in the middle of your lawn or an ugly cable hook up hanging off the side of your house can wreck an otherwise serene landscape plan. But it doesn’t have to.
How to Make a Rain Garden
Rain gardens are the hot new, eco-friendly garden project that helps you control erosion and reduce pollution from storm run off with a bed of stunning plantings. We’ll get you started with our four easy steps to creating your own rain garden.
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5 Uses for Rocks in Your Landscape
Rocks are useful in the landscape for design and to help plants or manage water. Here are five ways to use rocks in your garden.
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Plant a Moon Garden
Usually, we think of planning the perfect garden for a sunny summer day. But there are some plants that are at their best at night. We show you how to create a garden that shines when the sun doesn’t.
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How to Keep Your Garden Looking Good
Summer’s here, the hard work of spring is done, and the garden’s a riot of blossom and color. Here are five simple maintenance tasks you can do to keep your garden performing at its peak throughout the summer.
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Grow Your Own Wildflower Patch
Seven easy steps for creating your own bed, or even a meadow, packed with native wildflowers. The perfect way to attract birds, bees and other beneficial insects.