Landscaping Ideas

Archive for September, 2007

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Making use of garden lighting

Garden Lighting is a great way to make use of your garden at night. Garden lights are a great way of drawing attention to your most distinctive or impressive garden features. Most garden lighting is very affordable these days and many of the products that are on the market can be installed very easily by [...]

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Planning your garden online

For the gardener, one massive benefit of the computer age is the ability to plan and order your whole garden from your desktop? The web and gardening software makes it easy to get exactly what you like for your garden by logging on and choosing your hard and soft landscaping, and plants according to colour, [...]

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Expressing yourself through your garden

Garden landscaping offers you a good opportunity to express yourself and bring your personality to the garden. A garden helps to show whether the owner is free spirited, with colour and plants splashed everywhere, or prefers a more organised and regimented approach to life. Gardeners use plants, colour, design styles, hard and soft landscaping to [...]

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Adding interest to your garden landscaping

There are numerous ways in which you can add interest to your garden. One way is to identify a focal point that can be used to add interest. Your focal point could be a garden sculpture or a particular type of plant. If you cannot afford a specimen plant, adding block planting of a particular [...]

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Some garden pond ideas

I wrote a few days ago about Getting started with water garden landscaping which focussed on building a garden pond. If a pond appeals to you, but you need some inspiration, have a look at this video, which gives some nice design ideas. I’ve also come across an excellent short pond building ideas sheet which [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Getting started with water garden landscaping

If you want to make your garden look really attractive, then you should consider water garden landscaping. This can be as simple as a waterfall or fountain. One of the most impressive water features you can add is a fish pond. Having brightly colored fish such as koi carp swimming around your pond is a [...]

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Choosing a landscaping designer

If you are considering making substantial changes to your garden, then you may consider employing a landscaping designer. This may sound simple but there are a number of pitfalls you need to try and avoid. All landscape designers have their own ideas and a varied amount of experience. So finding one who shares your own [...]