If you’re a home body and appreciate the summer months in your backyard, an upgrade to the lighting is a nice improvement you’ll enjoy for years to come. Landscape lighting can be practical and illuminate a dark path between the garage and back door or more fanciful used to highlight a striking flower bed or…
Build a stone wall
You can’t add a more enduring landscape feature to a home than a stone wall, which you’ll see dotting the countryside of many homes in rural areas. A rugged stone wall creates a natural material surrounding property that’s appealing whether it’s a modest cottage or a handsome country estate, often becoming the focal point of…
Plant a Hedge
A lush garden hedge can create more than a barrier between properties, and it’s a useful way to lower noisy traffic or nearby neighbors. Planting a hedge is an attractive way to muffle sounds and enclose your property while creating a lush backdrop for a bed of flowers. And it might encourage songbirds to take…
Edge a Garden Bed
To create a manicured lawn and flower garden, flexible plastic edging does a good job of separating the components of a landscape. The edging defines garden beds and paths and driveways, and prevents plants from creeping and spreading. The metal edging creates a fine line so the beds are set off and separated from the…
Plant an Herb Garden
Ask anyone with an herb garden who enjoys cooking, and they’ll tell you that freshly picked basil, rosemary – or most any herb – can make an ordinary dish extraordinary. You’ll hear them predict that once you plant a few herbs and use them, you’ll get carried away because it’s so enjoyable, not to mention…
A Unique Community Garden That United a Neighborhood
May 31, 2022
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A man named Seneca Scott built community in West Oakland by building a community garden. Bottoms Up Garden lost its crops during the pandemic, but the community it built is still there. Seneca was no farmer when he moved to West Oakland from inner-city Cleveland via Cornell. But his neighbor Jason Byrnes was from rural…
What’s the Difference Between Annual and Perennial Plants?
When you’re beginning gardening, there are so many new terms to learn. One of the most important is the difference between annual and perennial plants. Put simply, annual or perennial is a classification of how long your plant’s lifecycle is: 1 year for annuals, 3 or more years for perennials. Yet, some plants are grown as…
Style at Home: Garden Essentials
By Katie Laughridge From Tribune News Service For the last year my husband and I have been working toward giving our new house a face-lift (OK, two years – it is quite the process). It has been a slow and occasionally painful journey only made bearable by my love of finding new decorations and design…
Lawn Mower Alternatives, Revisited
In a recent article, I mentioned how an updated version of the old-fashioned reel lawn mower might be appropriate for the person who emailed their question. Sometimes, I edit the email to fit space and to zero in on one topic. In this case, several people complained that my answer wasn’t comprehensive enough. For instance,…
Corpse Flowers Strangely Bloom at Same Time: Coincidence or Omen?
The Amorphophallus titanumin, also known as Titan arums, is commonly called the “corpse flower,” because of the wretched smell it emits when it blooms. Its flower can stand about 10 feet tall and blooms once every six years, or sometimes less frequently. The Titan Arum plant (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the corpse flower or stinky plant, is seen in…
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