11 Ways to Create Low-Maintenance Landscaping Around Your Home
These low-maintenance landscaping tips will help you spend less time doing yardwork and more time enjoying your garden.
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What Is Firescaping? Plus How to Use It to Defend Your Home Against Wildfires
Find out how firescaping can help protect your family and property from wildfires through smart landscaping choices.
15 of the Best Water Garden Plants to Grow
These pretty water garden plants thrive in or beside ponds. Most of these water-loving plants produce colorful flowers or interesting foliage.
7 Landscape Design Tips for Beginners
Follow our beginner-friendly landscape design tips to turn your yard into a blooming paradise and get advice for personalizing your outdoor space.
Garden Privacy Ideas that Incorporate Landscaping and Hardscaping
Check out these garden privacy ideas that include landscaping and hardscaping for creating a beautiful and private oasis in your yard.
Front Yard Mailbox Garden Ideas That Will Make You Smile
Add curb appeal to your front yard by planting a garden around your mailbox. Here are some mailbox planter ideas to get you started.
How to Design a Garden by Plant Height
Here's how to create a harmonious, eye-pleasing scene by arranging plants according to height in your flowerbeds and containers.
What Flowers Grow Well Together? Try These 28 Pretty Combinations
Mix and match these flower combinations for a gorgeous garden. Their colors, textures, and bloom times offer something for everyone.
8 Small Front Yard Landscaping Ideas to Make the Most of Your Space
Create a beautiful and welcoming small front yard with these tips and ideas.
How to Use a Weed Whacker to Fly Through Your Landscaping Chores
This guide will help you use a weed whacker efficiently and safely to accomplish weed removal, edging, trimming, and other landscaping tasks
Garden Path and Front Entrance Walkway Landscaping Ideas
Welcome visitors to your home with our front entrance walkway landscaping ideas. Or you can create a garden path with walkway planters.
How to Make a Flower Bed to Suit the Space You Have
Follow a few basic steps for how to make a flower bed, and you'll soon have more color, texture, and even fragrance in your landscape.
25 Refreshing Water Feature Ideas for Your Landscape
These fountains, ponds, and pools offer inspiration to match any style, ranging from naturalistic to modern.
How to Use Landscape Fabric to Control Weeds
Master the basics of how and where to use landscape fabric the right way.
How to Plant and Grow Pickerel Weed
Accent quiet ponds and wetlands with low-maintenance and easy-to-grow pickerel weed—a stunning summer-to-fall bloomer.
4 Grass Alternatives for Yards with Major Curb Appeal
Gravel, artificial turf, groundcover plants, and large planting beds are traditional grass lawn alternatives. Pick one for your yard from our list.
How to Landscape with Rocks and Stones in Your Yard
Decorative rocks and stones add another element of nature to your yard, whether you grow hydrangeas, tulips, or cacti.
Meadowscaping Is a Trendy Lawn Alternative—Here's How to Try It in Your Yard
Make your yard more sustainable by meadowscaping some or all of your lawn. These expert tips will help you get started.
How to Properly Use a Leaf Blower
Learn about the different kinds of leaf blowers, and how to use them correctly and safely.
12 Chicken Coop Ideas for Your Backyard Hens
These chicken coop ideas will help keep your flock safely contained while serving as an attractive addition to your landscape.