Category Archives: Landscaping

Creating A Meditation Garden – Do you find it difficult to channel your inner zen? Peace and tranquility may seem to be in short supply these days, but gardening improves mental health and provides a great break from the relentless news cycles and stressful state of the world. While any chance to put your hands in the ground can improve your mood, one form of gardening aims to restore your balance and encourage you to embark on a journey towards enlightenment: Zen gardens.

Originally created by Japanese Buddhist monks as places for meditation, Zen gardens are spaces of peace and tranquility. Calming, natural scenes filled with symbolism invite reflection and contemplation. While Western gardens excite the senses with vibrant colors, colors, textures and decorative elements, Zen gardens provide a calming atmosphere that allows for a journey of self-discovery.

Creating A Meditation Garden

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Backyard Fire Pit Ideas – Beat the summer sale! Use code SUMMER25 for 25% off any design package now through August 1st @11:59PM PT.

Landscaping around a fire pit brings your outdoor space to the next level, giving it aesthetic appeal and creating a cozy and inviting space for you and your guests to gather around and enjoy.

Backyard Fire Pit Ideas

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the importance of fire pit landscaping and how it can enhance the overall look and feel of your outdoor living spaces. We’ll explore different ideas based on your fire pit layout and garden style and show you how to create a cohesive and attractive space.

Outdoor Fire Pit Ideas That Are Lit

From the choice of seating to the use of plants and other outdoor elements, we can help you create a fire pit nook that is both beautiful and functional. Whether … Read the rest

Winterizing Your Garden – You are here: Home / Nutrition Disease Prevention and Management / Putting Your Garden to Bed for Winter

Making sure you prepare your garden for the winter months is just as important as the planning and planting you do earlier in the season. Fall is the perfect season to not only rest your garden, but also to reflect on the growing season and come up with ways to improve in the coming year.

Winterizing Your Garden

Once you’ve completed these tasks, you can sit back, relax, and plan for another successful year of gardening! Pat yourself on the back for your success.

Winterizing Raised Garden Beds

If you have any questions about gardening, winterizing, or troubleshooting garden problems, you can submit a question to a nationwide team of Extension experts: Ask the Experts: (http://ask.extension.org).

CSU Extension hosts the Colorado Master Gardener Program.  This program is for … Read the rest

Landscaping For Pets – If you have a dog (or two) in your family, you know how much they love to be outside. Whether you have a new home or want to update your yard, landscaping for dogs is easy.

One thing to consider when landscaping for dogs is that the dog urine problem leaves “burnt” areas in the grass. Solutions to this problem may include:

Landscaping For Pets

Dog tracks can also leave bare patches in the lawn. An attractive way to deal with these “runways” in landscaping for dogs is to use cobblestones to create a walkway. If you fence part of your yard to keep the dog out, we recommend a flagged path along the fence instead of grass. If your dog isn’t one to chew on rocks, pebbles along fences are also an option.

Great Backyard Landscaping Ideas

Whether you have a dog, a breed that … Read the rest

Attracting Wildlife With Your Landscape – Your backyard can be a miniature wildlife sanctuary, attracting a wide variety of birds and wild animals.  To be a haven for wildlife, your yard must provide the animals’ basic needs: shelter, water, and food throughout all four seasons.  The key to success is providing all the elements in the appropriate arrangement.  Below are ways to improve existing areas on your property such as gardens, lawns, and natural areas. Contact our horticulture consultants at Tanya  for additional advice.

Plant native plants – These plants provide a natural food source and shelter for birds, small mammals, butterflies, and beneficial insects. Native plants offer ornamental value and adapt to local environments. Once established, these plants require less water, maintenance, and fewer chemicals. Include a variety of evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, ground covers, vines, grasses, and herbaceous perennials in your garden. Some good choices include American … Read the rest

Designing A Family-friendly Yard – In Napavine there is something for everyone. This gorgeous backyard includes a fireplace lounge, a gunite pool and spa with a water slide, and a custom pavilion over the outdoor living room with a TV and all-season lounge.

Creating a backyard that meets the needs and wants of the entire family can be challenging. A well-designed and family-friendly backyard should be a haven for relaxation, play and memorable gatherings. You want an aesthetic that matches your home and taste, while incorporating whimsical and fun elements to entertain the kids. It also needs to have longevity – you don’t want to invest in a dream yard for your 2 and 5 year olds only to have them grow old in a few years. Incorporating elements that will be fun from childhood to adolescence requires foresight and planning. Whether you have children, teenagers, or are still planning … Read the rest

Backyard Orchard Planning – There are few more generous things you can do than planting a vegetable garden. Whether you have a field or a terrace, planting fruit trees means making a better and more beautiful future.

If you consider their adult form, there is a special pleasure in planting thin, tall whips and imagining fruitful, adult pieces on an invisible board, each with its own personality and character, but forming part of the whole. .

Backyard Orchard Planning

Planting a garden is quite a responsibility. Getting it right is easy; unfortunately, he is also wrong. This is not a row of lettuce to enjoy for a few months; an orchard will turn land into landscape, a garden into a three-dimensional ecosystem, a terrace into a place of fruitful abundance, and it can do so for decades, even generations.

Orchard Irrigation Guide

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Designing A Fairy Garden – In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, there is something truly wonderful about creating a small, charming world in your backyard. Fairy gardens have become a trend that captures the hearts and imaginations of people young and old. These miniature scenes, decorated with little fairies, gnomes, and charming accessories, offer a delightful escape into a realm of creativity and wonder.

I am very excited to share with you some new fairy garden ideas and photos that you have never seen before. The photos in this post are some I’ve collected from Gingham Gardens readers and friends, as well as from my own little gardens.

Designing A Fairy Garden

Fairy gardens are more than little plants and little figurines; it is an expression of creativity and a way to bring a touch of magic to our lives and the lives of visitors to our gardens.… Read the rest

Outdoor Lighting Design – Your favorite landscape features deserve attention whenever you step outside, even at night. You can transform your Mendham, NJ township with the following landscape lighting tips. Your beautiful landscape design will not be lost in the dark with the right lighting plan.

Navigation to and from your driveway to your front entrance is not only easier with the right landscape lighting strategy, but it can also draw attention to the best aspects of the front of your home.

Outdoor Lighting Design

Driveway Lighting: To illuminate the driveway, low-level lights along the edges could create a safer, yet subtle glow for your parking area while ensuring you can find your way from your vehicle to the gate of entry Pillar lights could further give your driveway a distinctive look as an entrance to your property.

Illuminating The Secret To Outdoor Lighting Design

Walkway Lighting: Lighting your paver … Read the rest

Outdoor Kitchen Design Ideas – When we moved into this house five years ago, we fell in love with all its 1908 charms. Of course, the house’s age comes with renovations and maintenance, but in our eyes it is very precious. First, we completely redid the interior kitchen, creating a space that truly makes me happy every day I walk into it, with lots of natural light, colorful flowers, unique backsplashes, original hardwood floors, and open shelving.

The front and back of the house showed a lot of potential. It’s just a matter of time until we put the work and thought into those areas, and bring them to life in ways that suit our style and the needs of our work. I am very happy to show you today our new project; complete toilet renovation from the ground up.

Outdoor Kitchen Design Ideas

We spent the last year completely … Read the rest