The garden cultivator has been in use for centuries from the simple hand-held wheel cultivator to the gas powered mini cultivator almost anyone can handle and turn the soil in a garden fast. Types of Cultivators There are many types of hand cultivators. Some of them are made to attract the buyer, but when used, […]

Most people agree that the architectural features of a home influence its landscape plantings, the garden and even the landscape lighting used. Colonial, Tudor, Victorian, Spanish and even nondescript architectures have served as a basis for our home designs for many years. Garden plantings about such homes universally include more or less heavy foundation groupings […]

Summary: A great place to pick up landscape design ideas for the small yard landscape along with the backyard, front yard and patio area is at the Spring Flower Shows. You’ll find tools and garden gadgets galore along with ways of using old items in new ways. Ever since the final day of last years […]

The Pacific Northwest is natural rhododendron country. In that narrow belt along the Pacific slope running from Vancouver and Victoria, BC, to San Francisco, the winters are tempered by warm waters, the air is moist the year round, there is very little extreme summer heat and the soil is naturally acid. All this adds up […]

One hundred years ago the word “”rhododendron”” was a name touched with magic, conjuring up images of mansions framed in priceless shrubberies, the utmost in beauty and exclusiveness. Today that magic is slowly fading from the name. What has happened? A wild shrub, Rhododendron maximum, with leaves resembling garden rhododendrons, but with ungraceful stalks and […]

Among the choice company of hardy shrubs with winter bloom, none is more pleasing than Viburnum fragrans. During mild weather the flower buds expand into 2-inch clusters of the delightfully fragrant pink flowers. This may be as early as January, but more often it is in March and April. The blooms are amazingly hardy and […]

Although many people have a tendency to see their backyards as yet another tedious chore to tack on to the already growing list of household chores, I like to think of mine as my own private hideaway. I will grant you there is work involved in maintaining a beautiful backyard, but I prefer to see […]