Solar Mason Jar Lights
Solar Mason Jar Lights add elegance to your outdoor decor. Here’s a quick tutorial for making beautiful solar mason jar lights out of the cheap ($1) plastic solar path lights.
Garden
Explore everything you need to create a garden you’ll love — from landscape design and garden design to flower gardening, plant guides and inspiring DIY garden projects. You’ll also find resources on native plants, garden styles, water features and more.
Browse the topics to discover practical tips, step-by-step projects and creative ideas for building a yard that’s functional, beautiful and uniquely yours.
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Solar Lighting Lights Up Your Landscape
Solar lighting is a great way to add interest and dimension — not to mention safety — to your nighttime landscape. Learn how to complete this quick weekend project now!
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10 Before and After Curb Appeal Photos
Before and after curb appeal makeovers – both large and small – to inspire you. You’ll see that curb appeal updates don’t have to be expensive to have a huge impact.
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How to plant Emerald Green Arborvitae privacy trees (distance, etc)
Learn how to plant privacy tree hedges like the emerald green arborvitae along with spacing care and maintenance for your newly planted privacy tree hedge.
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Evergreen Shrubs – the Most Important Part of Your Mixed Border
Evergreen shrubs are the backbone of your landscape. These are my fave evergreen shrubs to use with trees, plants and flowers in your mixed garden border.
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Best Small Ornamental Trees with Multi-Season Interest
Picks for some great, hardy, low maintenance ornamental trees to add color to your landscape. The best ornamental trees for your 4-season garden.
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Easy porch sconce makeover with spray paint
I was looking for a quick weekend curb appeal project now that spring is upon us, and I came up with the idea to paint porch sconces with spray paint. An afternoon later I completely updated my front porch lighting for less than $10!
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How to cut stone caps for a curved retaining wall [with photos]
Step by step instructions for fitting and cutting capstones that will fit over a curved stone wall or border.
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Stone Edging as a Landscape Border
Boosting curb appeal takes only a weekend or two with this great DIY stone edging solution for your landscape border. What’s the purpose of stone edging, or any garden edging? The main purpose of adding edging to your landscape or garden borders is to make it look nice and add some curb appeal. But there are other reasons, too! Here are some other reasons you may consider garden edging: Landscape Edging Materials Well, really this is a personal choice. There are lots of options available for edging… some are conventional, and some are really wild! A couple ideas for your edging include: Not only are there many materials available for edging, but once you decide on your material there are MORE options. Decisions, Decisions! If…
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Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry: a Tree for all Seasons
From early spring blooms to edible berries in the summer to fiery red fall foliage to branches that catch falling snow, the Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry is truly a tree for all seasons.
