Is there anything lovelier than a shade garden on a warm day? It's hard to beat!
Landscaping with Lavender is easy and adds a colorful carpet in the yard! We have some of the best ideas for you!
Create an all-season perennial garden so that the blooms just keep on blooming! Enjoy three or four seasons of color and beauty throughout your yard by following our easy guide.
If you long for your flower garden to bloom year after year with minimal effort, try planting a few low-maintenance perennials! Not only are they stunning and easy to care for, but they're also cost-effective
Give your garden some elegant outlines. Use these garden edging ideas to lend character, definition, and texture to your landscaping beds.
Want to replace your lawn with a ground cover you could step on without damaging it? Discover the names of these Best Walkable Ground Covers!
Looking to beautify your garden this season with beautiful flowers? Try these full-sun perennials! They do well in the heat and some are low-maintenance!
4 simple ways to arrange flowers and plants in your garden to get that beautiful layered look that you want... even if you're a beginner!
Looking to create a greenhouse at home? Click to see innovative greenhouse ideas that can make your dreams come true!rn
What looks like a limitation is actually a blessing in disguise!
It's a beautiful flower bed—and a reservoir for yard and roof runoff
Planting perennials in the fall is a simple way to enjoy a larger, more stunning garden for longer. Benefit from a colorful and vibrant garden all year.
Learn which Hosta companion plants will look the best in your yard with lots of shade garden pictures to provide inspiration and ideas.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
How to achieve the prettiest contemporary cottage garden style - and why the 70/30 rule will make your planting so much more successful.
I am excited to share that The National Garden Bureau has chosen the allium as the bulb of the year! They pick one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop and one…
30 Attractive low-maintenance garden and patio design ideas Those who have little to no time to spend in their garden are very likely to love entertaining and relaxing outdoors just as much as their fastidious green-thumb counterparts. Well, listen up lazy gardeners. So you can spend less time caring for your garden and more time
Everything you need to know about building and starting a raised garden bed! This post will help you begin with confidence!
When you are out in the yard, and you don’t want to get bit by mosquitoes, this organic yard spray (which is safe for humans and plants) may be the solution for you.
Looking for a project this Labor Day? We took 3 days to transform our side yard, add a pathway, disguise ugly utilities, and fence off a neglected part of our backyard. It's not maintenance free and looks better than ever- get the details on the blog!
While some people grow determinate tomatoes so that they don’t have to worry about a trellis, anyone who wants to grow an indeterminate variety is going
Learn about how to plant, grow and care for lavender! There are many benefits to growing lavender, find out how to properly care for this great plant!
'No Dig’ gardening, the ingenious, increasingly popular method pioneered by Englishman Charles Dowding, lets you make the most of your vegetable garden—without spending all your time weeding.
For the better part of a century, lawns were the default for American front yards. They remain incredibly popular today, but standards are shifting quickly. So far this year, 80% of Yardzen clients requested a landscape design that did not maximize the use of lawn—and 37% requested no traditional lawn... Read more »
Astilbes can brighten up your shade garden and are even low-maintenance! Learn what they need to thrive in order to grow in your garden all Summer long!
Want to replace your lawn with a ground cover you could step on without damaging it? Discover the names of these Best Walkable Ground Covers!
When you plant a rain garden, you do your part for the environment, filtering runoff and protecting groundwater. Pick the right plants and you're also rewarded with a beautiful garden!
If you had told me last March when I wrote on this blog about my rather grand plan for a new vegetable garden that I would still be updating you on it nine months later, well, I probably wouldn’t have done it. Suffice to say, I had no idea what a big project I was […]
Building a rain garden takes a bit more work than traditional flower beds, but it's not that difficult. Follow these detailed steps to install one yourself.
Having a garden in your home is such a blessing since it could be utilized not only to beautify your outdoor
Lemongrass: How to grow it and what to do with it!
If there's an area of your yard that is collecting water, a french drain is a a great solution to redirect the water to a different location of your property. Here's a step by step tutorial for getting this done!
Sloped backyards are tricky when it comes to landscaping, but we have selected some really creative sloped backyard ideas on a budget for you to choose from.
Whether you want to reduce your grass lawn or replace it, there are lots of options for alternative eco-lawns including wildflowers, clovers, and fescue grass seed mixes.
Enjoy bright and showy blooms! Easier to grow than you may think, this guide covers all the basics to grow ranunculus flowers in your garden.
Did you know that you can use salvaged timber-framed windows to build a greenhouse? Read our guide to know how to upcycle your old windows!
Take a tour of our neighbor-friendly edible landscape.
