Many people turn to pathway lighting to improve the look and feel of their outside spaces. Well the good news is that most landscape lighting is quite simplistic to install and very safe. Even if you’re new to putting in lighting fixtures you should be able to put in most pathway lighting without much effort. In the following article I will outline some simple steps you can take to install your new lights.

Planting an edging for your driveway or sidewalks is easy and can be very pretty. Most edgings are designed with short flowering plants so as not to obstruct the pathway. You can choose from plants that attract birds and butterflies or ground covers that spread fast and look beautiful Here are a few a few [...]

In Eastern Canada, the trees that have been used most successfully as street trees are the hard, or sugar, maple, the Norway maple, the European linden and the red and white oaks – though the oaks are rather slow growing. In the north and west, where the climate is more severe, the best street trees are the American elm, hackberry and green ash.

Whether it’s a narrow pedestrian pathway, a stylish faux-historic cart-path or roadway, or a public space, pavestone can provide smooth, even surfaces that will stand the test of time. The relatively new availability of manufactured pavestone designs allows builders to pave areas easily. Pavestone fills a particular role in landscaping stone projects, around homes, apartments, [...]

It’s a common dilemma: you have an outdoor project and you don’t know whether to use landscape contractors or to do it yourself. Are landscape contractors worth the expense? What value do they add? How do I determine which landscape contractors are competent? Where do I start? Landscape Contractors: An Overview Landscape contractors bring to [...]

No matter how carefully the garden has been planned on paper, hard practical work must be done by someone before you can see the dream break into flower.

Landscape design comes with big challenges. Perhaps your property is next to a 30 foot high wall of a neighbor’s townhouse or office building. Maybe the space is narrow with straight lines and right angles. Or you’ve remodeled your residence, changed the elevation, added a new room and reduced the size of your backyard, all [...]

With all of the advantages available to a homeowner who selects solar lighting, a great deal of flexibility is available when planning a design to illuminate your favorite home and garden features. Solar accent lights are available in many sleek designs from numerous manufacturers. Gone are the days of the generic canned solar lights with no real character for your yard. Now there are multiple fixtures offering various LED colors and light fixtures that offer multiple display and mounting options. This presents homeowners with great flexibility and opportunity with solar powered accent lighting readily available at retail sites or on the internet.

Enjoy your house with a beautiful new layered landscaping and garden? Probably so, and that is a good thing. Garden landscaping is more fun than one can imagine, and there is nothing more exciting than planting your own flower bed. Great landscape gardening ideas can be found, and some of the best are online. A [...]

The people of each country and period have wished their gardens to express different degrees of formality, which we call “type.” At one extreme we have formal gardens and at the other naturalistic ones. People do not like formality at all times; also, in small places dominated by buildings and rectangular boundaries it is almost impossible to imitate nature closely. Therefore, we have had to develop intermediate types of varying degrees, which we call informal and conventional.