Backyard Landscaping Ideas

Accessible gardens
At first thought, the bending and crawling associated with gardening can seem daunting even
to someone in perfect health. However, with a little planning and a few modifications,
a garden or landscape can easily be designed to meet anyone’s needs.

Easy reach: Raised beds, tables, and hanging baskets.

In an accessible garden, the need for crouching and crawling [...]

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The Anti-allergy Garden
In theory, “everyone” enjoys a day in the garden. There are those, however, who do not enjoy the
watery eyes and sinus headaches that can follow it. Fortunately, with the right anti-allergy garden design and plant
choices, allergies don’t have to stop you from getting the most out of your own backyard.

Plant choice

Flower type [...]

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Coastal Landscaping
While coastal climates vary greatly - from the rocky, windy coasts of Scotland, to the Florida
tropics, or to the warm and dry Mediterranean — most coastal areas do share common characteristics that can make landscaping a challenge.

Coastal landscaping problems

Along a shoreline, the forces of nature can be extremely harsh. High winds,
poor sandy [...]

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This list of basket-worthy and vertically growing plants is a
supplement to BLI’s Hanging Garden
These plants can be grown in containers or trained on walls
and other structures.

Upright plants

Tuberous begonia
(Begonia x tuberhybrida)

12 to 18 inches tall and wide Large flowers in red, pink,
orange, yellow, white and in bicolors. Spring through summer
Lift tubers in fall and store; [...]

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Even the most docile dogs need a safe place to run, play, and explore. By keeping your home’s landscape free of poisonous plants, adding a few pieces of dog agility equipement and maybe even a heated dog house, your dog won’t have any more excuses for chasing the neighborhood cats.
Plant Choice
Like toddlers, some dogs are [...]

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Looking for an easy-to-use computer program for landscape design but don’t want to empty your wallet for the latest garden plan programs? Then try one of these landscape software packages for free.

Smartdraw
Smartdraw is a downloadable program that helps home landscapers plan and create their ideal garden. The program comes ready to go with thousands of [...]

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When you see an attractively landscaped home, one of the first things you notice is the neatness and symmetry. Landscape edging—whether simple plastic or elaborately carved and colored stone—is what creates that clean line between planting areas and lawn or ground covers, maintaining the manicured look of a high-quality landscape design. Edging also provides [...]

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Slopes are one of the most common landscaping problems, particularly
in houses above street level. Although a gentle slope
(two or three degrees) can help direct water from buildings,
and can be landscaped as a flat area would be, a slope of 4 percent
or more requires special treatment. Here are some design ideas and plant choices to improve [...]

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Depending on where you live, river rock is either a beautiful natural landscaping material worth paying good money for or something you long ago got tired of hitting with the lawn mower blade. If you’ve ever landscaped near a dry river bed, you’ll understand the latter problem.

Regardless of whether you have to hunt down the [...]

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Backyard Decor
Garden and backyard decor adds a finishing touch and personal flair to any garden design.
And these days there’s more out there than greyhounds and gnomes — from the neighborhood
garden shop to online shopping, you have access to an
unbelievable array of backyard decor and accessories.

Garden decor like wrought iron fences, carved stone fountains, and [...]

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