Simple Secrets for Creating Garden Color Schemes
A practical guide to choosing and combining plant colors, so your flower garden feels cohesive and visually pleasing instead of chaotic or overwhelming.
Garden Design
Explore how to design planting plans inside your garden beds so they feel balanced, beautiful and uniquely yours.
You’ll also find helpful resources on garden design principles, garden design tips for beginners and garden styles along with step-by-step guides to arrange plants in garden beds and drawing your own garden plans.
From creating garden unity and flow to experimenting with plant textures and garden color schemes, these garden design ideas will help you build confidence in designing your own yard.
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Plant Combinations: How to make unforgettable plant pairings
A hands-on guide to pairing plants by color, texture, size, and form to create garden combinations that look great together season after season.
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Landscape Layering: How to Create an Amazing Landscape
An explanation of landscape layering—trees, shrubs and perennials—and how homeowners can use it to add depth, structure and year-round interest to their gardens.
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The Garden Pyramid for Planting Success
My Garden Pyramid Guide will help you to visualize how many of each plant type you should include in each garden. Get the right plant ratios to achieve a layered garden with 4-season interest.
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Improve Your Landscape in 5 Simple Steps (Beginners Guide)
A beginner-friendly action plan for improving an existing landscape using small, manageable changes that make a big visual impact.
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Soil Improvement Tips For Flower Beds
These soil improvement tips for your flowerbeds will help you to create a beautiful flowering garden filled with happy and healthy plants.
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Choosing the Right Tree For Your Front Yard
Find the perfect ornamental tree for your front yard. The perfect list of interesting, easy care front yard trees for your landscape.
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One of the Easiest (and coolest) DIY water features
One of the Easiest (and coolest) DIY pondless water feature yet. Make this invisible fountain bubbler in an afternoon and enjoy it for years to come!
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DIY Solar Birdbath Fountain for less than $50!
You can make a solar birdbath fountain out of literally ANYTHING. Here’s a quick tutorial on how I made a diy solar birdbath fountain out of a candle pillar stand, large bowl, spray paint and a solar fountain.
