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4th March 2008

Landscape Design - Well Balanced Home Landscaping

A sense of balance is necessary in creating a professional looking landscape design. Creating balance and unity is simple and can actually make designing easier but it is often overlooked. Use these guidelines to simplify your design and to ensure that your garden or landscape has a professional finished look.
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3rd March 2008

Landscaping, An American Pass Time

Landscaping has been a favorite American pass time for hundreds of years. Recently through the added exposure of popular TV shows, the interest in sprucing up one’s landscaping has become greater than ever. Today, many shows are introducing everyone to new and fun ways to enjoy landscaping. There are even dedicated television channels, such as the Home and Garden channel, that explore all things beautiful to improve one’s living space and take it from just functional to luxurious through improved landscaping.
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4th February 2008

How to Attract Birds to Your Backyard Paradise For Less Than $100

Like many Americans, you may find bird watching to be a fascinating hobby. At the same time, perhaps you wonder how you can attract regular visitors to your yard without busting the bank by purchasing expensive foliage, feeders, and food. Here are some tips toward helping you establish a backyard paradise that is certain to welcome birds without draining your wallet.
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19th January 2008

Tips for Preparing a Planting Bed

Think you have to hire professionals to make your yard beautiful? This article shows you everything you need to know to create planting beds for landscaping that will make your home stand out from the neighbors’.
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13th January 2008

Unifying and Separating Landscaping Planting Beds

Using neutral colored landscaping plants to create unity or separation in landscape and garden planting schemes.
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7th December 2007

Country Lawn Maintenance - 10 Tips to Know Before You Mow

Urbanites with résumés limited to plucking the occasional dandelion from their xeriscape and raising a hydroponic tomato in the condo alcove, should rightfully tremble when considering the daunting task of country lawn maintenance.
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3rd December 2007

Low Cost Home Landscaping Tips

Installing and maintaining landscaping around your home can be a costly undertaking. By heeding a few of these money-saving tips, you can hold down your costs and create a beautiful landscape that you can afford to maintain.
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2nd December 2007

Is Landscape Fabric Even Necessary In Landscaping?

There is a popular debate as to whether landscaping fabrics are necessary in landscaping or if they even work at all. Heres one professionals view on the matter.
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20th November 2007

The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design

These are the same principles of landscape design that professionals use written so do-it-yourselfers can use and understand them.
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8th November 2007

Hillside Landscaping-Proper Watering

Eliminating dry spots and dead plants due to water runoff on hillside and sloped landscapes.
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