Let’s be honest. We all want a garden that looks as if it belongs in a glossy magazine. I do. You do. My experience is that every one of us – by using a few practical landscaping tips – improve the way our gardens both look and grow.
This page lists a growing number of those techniques and
I really hope they help and inspire you to create something unique in your own garden.
Practical Tips To Improve Your Own Landscape
Here’s how you can kill plants in the garden.
A Recipe for Organic Weed Control with Vinegar That Really Works
Here’s how to get the best growth rates on trees and shrubs by feeding in the fall.
Here’s why you don’t want to use night lighting in your garden.
Deadheading plants – taking off the spent blooms – is one of the main ways we either clean up the garden or get even more blossoms from the plant. These videos will get you started right.
Butterfly garden design rules that will make a difference in your garden
How to stop frost from wrecking your garden. Practical tips that worked in my nursery.
Here’s why you use an organic mulch in your garden rather than the obscene rubber or even ornamental pebble mulches that don’t add anything to the soil.
Six deceptively simple ways to improve your backyard landscaping
Three principles of perennial garden design.
There are a great many marketing myths about growing groundcovers (like they prevent weeds). You’ll want to read this honest article
Irrigation: Watering Your Garden Properly
How To Understand and Calculate Your Water Flow Rate
Why Is Water Pressure Important In The Irrigation System
An irrigation planning diagram (Doug’s Garden)
How to calculate drip irrigation rates
How To Design With Color In Your Garden
The first thing to understand is the color wheel and how we’re going to use it.
Hot versus Cool colors in the garden
Two color chords of high contrasting colors and how you can use those in your garden to get instantly gorgeous containers/gardens
The practical problem with designing with variegated plants in the garden
The contrast of extension sounds complicated but it’s really not. Understanding this will make a major difference in your garden. How to balance the colors in your garden.
