Category: Landscaping

Guidelines for Growing Ground Covers

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For landscaping or general gardening, ground covers are one of the most useful tools in the gardener’s toolbox. They spread across the soil surface, limiting weeds and protecting the soil, while adding to the aesthetics of the place. Be it…
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How to Grow a Hedge FAST

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A shrub of sufficient size can make a yard. It blurs boundaries, shields noise, provides privacy and creates structure that adds intimacy that a small garden is a retreat of your own. But speaking frankly, the majority of gardeners cannot…
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Retaining Walls for the Garden

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Retaining walls are essential in landscaping practice to prevent the constant downward movement of soil on slopes, which can result in landslides. They are often built to alter a slope into a series of terraces. But as you should have…
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Creating a simple terrace garden

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Creating a terrace garden can provide you with a private, green sanctuary in the middle of the concrete urban jungle. A terrace garden will also provide living beauty, shade, cleaner air, and fresh food if you decide to grow food-producing…
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Building retaining walls

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Retaining walls are very common, from a basic rock or timber retaining wall, to more elaborate concrete ones. They are usually built to hold back soil and retain its pressure, or act as support for a slope by terracing the…
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Terrace Garden Tips

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Are you bored with the dull look of your terrace? Do you want to make your terrace your own private sanctuary after toiling all day in the office? Terrace gardening is an option that may appeal to those who are…
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Some hillside landscaping tips

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It’s easy to understand why it’s nice to own a home in the hills. The panoramic views from the top make the cost worthwhile to own a plot of land on a hill. But landscaping-wise, it’s a challenge. Hilly terrain…
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Tips on choosing the right landscaping plants

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Landscaping as a whole, largely revolves around planning the layout for your plantings and picking the right plants for the task. Wrongly chosen plants can ruin the aesthetics of your yard, so make sure you make the right choices! That…
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