Yard and Garden
New Swimming Pool Considerations
Your children are getting older and it is time to stash the kiddie pool in favor of a family pool that everyone can enjoy. You’ve considered your local swim club as one cool-down option, but the convenience of having a pool in your own yard is irresistible.
How to Attract Birds to Your Garden
Tweet Practice these two rules and your garden will not only thrive, but come alive with winged creatures including butterflies. Choose Your Plants Your garden may already feature a number
Do You Need a Pool Maintenance Service?
I’ve heard the question from a number of my friends over the years, “Why don’t you and Ed get a pool maintenance service?” It’s a great question.
How to Build Your Own Garden-Based Office
These days, garden sheds or outbuildings are being used as pretty much anything except for gardening tools storage.
Smart Options for Brown-Thumbed Gardeners
Only green-thumbed gardeners have what it takes to produce a varied and massive display of flowers, right? Well, not quite.
6 Benefits of Growing Fruit Trees In Your Backyard
Sometimes even the simplest things can turn out to be amazing in their own way. Nature, for example, not only adds beauty to our surroundings, it bears the food and resources we consume.
How to Rejuvenate Old Hedges
Robert Frost had it right when he said, “Good fences make good neighbors.’ While we may think that such fences are always made of steel, wood or polymer materials, perhaps the best fence is the garden hedge.
How to Prepare Your Pool for the Season
With winter still on some people’s minds, spring gives homeowners the opportunity to catch up on yard projects abandoned before Christmas.
How to Enjoy a Garden Pond
A garden pond can turn your backyard into a veritable nature resort by creating an inviting habitat for wildlife including butterflies, frogs and even deer. Enjoy watching birds stop by to bathe and perch at the water’s edge. Fill your pond with fish, turtles and beautiful water plants for added interest.
Fencing Considerations for the Dog Owner
The old saying goes, “Good fences make good neighbors.” For dog owners, good fences make good neighbors, safe pets, and fewer pet-related problems.
Fences Around Your Home, Which are the Best Choices?
Most homes look much better and feel more secure or even comfy with a fence of some sort around them. In the front they can be attractive. In the rear they sometimes are a necessity. The question often asked is this one: what kind of fence is best?
Why You Should Hire A Landscape Designer
Let’s face it: your yard is a complex ecological environment, filled with flora and visited by fauna, offering a delicate balance between the natural and the manmade.
Instructions on How to Clean a Deck
It has been a few years since you installed your western red cedar deck, an attractive and highly functional addition to your home. That deck can last for many years, provided that you keep it maintained.
How to Choose a Tree Cutting Professional
Your home is your castle, but it is the greenery that surrounds it that gives your property its distinctive look.
Tips on Finding the Right Shed to Use as a Workshop
A garden shed can be a brilliant space to use as a workshop; so if you like tinkering with cars, building furniture or are a budding artist, it’s worth considering getting your hands on one. If you’ve got a shed already, you might be tempted to transform it into a workshop – but you should make sure it’s actually well-suited to the purpose first.
Backyard Remodel: What’s Your Swimming Pool Personality?
A remodel is in order. It’s your backyard’s turn. Make it into a personalized retreat. Whether you desire peace and quiet or a gaggle of laughing children, there are many options to create the ideal backyard oasis.
Fall Overseeding and Your Patchy Lawn
Your lawn has survived the summer beat down, but it is now patchy, worn and a bit pathetic. Fall is the ideal time to aerate and overseed your lawn, a twin effort that can yield extraordinary results.
How to Donate Your Patio Furniture
Summer is over and it is time to put away your patio furniture. This year, however, you decided that you don’t want to put your furniture away. Instead, you plan to donate it with an eye toward buying new furniture by next spring.
You Can Save Money on Summer Outdoor Furniture
With summer now behind us, you will soon be putting all of your outdoor furniture away. Then again, if you’re tired of your current set and really don’t want to store it only to bring it out again next spring, you can sell your set and buy new furniture instead. Like right now.
7 Quick and Easy Fall Yard Projects
Beautiful fall weather is here, offering a welcome contrast to the hottest days of summer. The next few months promise to serve up enough days that are not too warm and not too cold.
