Landscape Design

Building a Dry-Laid Flagstone Patio

Building a dry-laid patio is labor-intensive, but can be a decent DIY project if you pay attention to all the little details. The one in the …

While I was driving around today, I kept hearing a commercial for one of the big box home improvement stores, advertising a special on …

When we bought the house, the fence didn't enclose the entire backyard. Instead, the big opening facing the main road just funneled the view …

If you're like everyone else, you want to improve your home and garden, but you also want to get the most value for your dollar. That's …

I was fortunate enough to get a review copy of the above book, Rain Gardening in the South: Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, …

Landscaping, gardening, whatever you want to call it- it's pretty forgiving. I'm of the school of thought that you can't actually have …

More plants for small spaces! This one here is Harbor Dwarf Heavenly Bamboo, or more accurately Nandina domestica 'Harbor Dwarf'. It's a …

Concrete pavers have come a long way in the last decade. Back then, they were essentially a compromise product: if the client wanted a patio …

MJ (my wife) reads this blog, and she made a good point about my last post ("Retaining Walls- Always Needed?"). Her point was that this blog …