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This video is part of Kitchen Gardeners International’s “Eat the View” campaign to convert part of the White House lawn into an edible landscape. It features KGI founder, Roger Doiron, digging a new garden on his “white house” lawn. Add this idea to your collection of lawn designs.
Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, STEFAN HYROSS. He is an expert on real estate landscaping, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.
Suggestions For Great Backyard Landscaping
by Stefan Hyross
Everyone enjoys relaxing outdoors on a nice summer day. However, if your backyard needs some work, you may not be enjoying it to the fullest. You may be overwhelmed by the size of the landscaping project, especially is you try to do it all in one growing season. The solution? Sectional landscaping.
If you determine sections for your backyard and remodel only one section each year, you will be able to revamp your whole yard in a few years without breaking your back or spending a fortune. Sectional landscaping is particularly useful if you care on a budget. It will be easier to absorb $1,000 every year for 3 or 4 years than trying to spend $4,000-5,000 in one season. Read the rest of this entry »
Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, BRAD SLADE. He is an expert on artificial grass, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.
Fake Grass
By Brad Slade
The history of artificial or fake grass is to say the least an interesting one and arose out of the social desire to in-effect ward off what could be seen, as far back as the 1950s, as an increasingly unhealthy tendency by youngsters not to exercise.
History has it that birth of synthetic grass began through attempts by scientists trying to develop a type of grass that would not only allow children and adolescents to play on regardless of the weather condition but encouraged them to do so, in other words, a surface that they enjoyed using or a user friendly surface. Hence the advent of fake or artificial grass.
The result was one of the early prototypes of what we now know to be fake or artificial grass. The earlier types were not only hard under foot and made for impracticality especially where sports and children were concerned given the tendencies to fall but were very unpopular. Read the rest of this entry »
There is nothing quite so delicious as cool, green grass under bare feet. Can you design a lawn so this is no longer just a remembered sensation?
Absolutely! Just follow these 4 easy steps…
First of all, thinking “lawn garden” instead of just “lawn” will help you come up with the right design. It’s also much easier to accomplish this before putting the lawn in.
But it’s not impossible to get it right, even after the fact. Executing your design will just take a bit more effort.
Decide how many flower beds you want, where to plant trees and shrubs, whether you want a pond, where the sidewalks and other paths will be, whether to include a fence, a trellis, or even a bridge… Read the rest of this entry »
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