Landscape Basics
Learn the basics of landscaping to create a beautiful yard.
Landscaping Tips
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A Simple, Welcoming Dooryard Garden
This entry perennial garden features easy-care plants that look good year-round.
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Front Yard Flower Power
Create a memorable entry area with a display of blooms that wakes up your front walk.
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Front Yard Landscape Secrets
Add value to your home by increasing curb appeal with an attractive, functional, front-yard landscape.
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Get Landscaping Ideas from Your House
Do you want a front yard with more curb appeal? Look to your house for design inspiration!
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Planning Your Front-Yard Landscape
The front yard is the place most people fix first -- and for good reason. Often, it's what others see, and that the family sees most of...
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Create a Dooryard Garden
The area around the front door has a definite spatial quality. Like a welcome mat to a visitor, the design, scale, planting, and mainte...
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Premium-Look Front Yard Landscape
This front yard landscape plan offers an upscale look for the homeowner who is willing to pay a premium price for a lifetime investment...
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Front Yard Sidewalk-Garden Ideas
Add beauty and curb appeal to your front yard with a sidewalk garden. Check out these ideas that'll work even in the smallest of spaces...
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The Secrets to Fabulous Outdoor Lighting
Light up your yard with style for entertaining, relaxing, beauty, security, and safety.
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How to Landscape Your Yard
Follow our simple steps to learn how to landscape, then transform your outdoor living spaces.
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Backyard Landscaping Secrets
Use these six backyard landscaping secrets from garden designer Jon Carloftis to tackle -- and transform -- your yard.
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Flower Garden Ideas for Your Landscape
Add blooms to your garden in every color of the rainbow.
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Arbors and Trellises in the Landscape
Add an arbor or a trellis and create beauty and function in your outdoor space.
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Balcony and Rooftop Gardening
If you don't have a ground-level yard, a balcony or rooftop can supply space for growing and gathering.
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Landscaping with a Pergola
Add a pergola to your landscape for structure and shelter.
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Porch Ideas
Traditionally located on the front of a house, a porch creates a perch to relax and take in the neighborhood or yard.
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Sunny Landscape Ideas
Plants with showy blooms and pretty foliage are welcome additions to sunny garden spots.
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Playhouse Ideas
Include a quaint playhouse for kids in your yard.
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Shade Garden Ideas
Get landscaping ideas for areas of your yard that don't see full sun.
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Patio Landscaping Ideas
Include a space for gathering, eating, or relaxing to increase outdoor enjoyment.
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Drought-Tolerant Landscaping Ideas
Conserve water in the garden with these beautiful plants and ideas.
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Deck Landscaping Ideas
Rely on a deck to maximize the outdoor living area of your landscape.
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Gazebos in the Landscape
A gazebo offers an alluring way to enjoy the landscape.
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Path and Walkway Landscaping Ideas
Put your garden on a great footing with these landscape secrets.
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Outdoor Kitchens in the Landscape
Adding an outdoor cooking space offers another delectable way to enjoy your yard.
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Pool and Spa Ideas
Bask in the comfort and tranquility of a pool or spa.
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Landscaping Ideas for Privacy
Get landscaping ideas for creating a private, secluded yard.
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Front Yard Landscaping Ideas
Gather ideas for making your yard a brilliant display of color and texture using low-maintenance plants and design ideas.
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Garden Sheds in the Landscape
A garden shed offers welcome workspace as well as decoration in the landscape.
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20 Tips For Gardening With Dogs
We love our dogs and our gardens, but sometimes it seems the two don't mix well. Here are 20 simple tips for balancing the needs of pet...
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Answers to Your Top Garden Questions
The Garden Editors at Better Homes and Gardens answer all your toughest gardening questions.
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Assessing Your Landscape Needs
Start the landscaping process by focusing on what you want from your yard.
- Evaluating Your Yard
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Fall Garden Design Lessons
Your landscape can still look great -- even after a few frosts. This New York garden shows you how.
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Fall Landscaping Ideas
See how two great gardeners -- one on the East Coast and one on the West -- created knock-your-socks-off fall yards -- and learn how yo...
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Garden Getaways
Creating a secret retreat within a garden is something anyone can do in any garden. It's a matter of knowing what you want, knowing all...
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Garden Notes: Question of the Week
Every week we highlight a new gardening question for our e-mail newsletter, Garden Notes. Check out the most recent solutions to your g...
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Hillside Landscaping Ideas
Get landscaping ideas for sloping yards.
- Home Landscaping 101
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How to Choose a Lawn Shape
The best shape for your lawn is determined by its use, the landscape, appearance, and your desired maintenance level. Here's how to sel...
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Make Your Yard More Private
Make your landscape more of a personal retreat by adding elements that give you privacy. Try these easy ways of creating your own priva...
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Lawn Design Tips
Use these tips to make a statement with your lawn so it will be a key element of your landscape's overall design.
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Mapping Your Yard
Here's how to create a base map of your yard, the foundation of all landscape planning.
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Putting Your Landscape Plans into Action
Once your dream landscape is down on page, it's time to develop a plan for bringing your ideas to life.
- Site Analysis: Climate and Terrain
- Site Analysis: Plants and Structures
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Three-Year Landscape Plan
This year-by-year approach to landscaping your backyard will stretch your budget and save your back.
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Tips for Taming a Slope
Reclaim lost ground and turn a frustrating slope into a dramatic asset with one of these ideas.
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Using Landscape Design Software
Computer software can't turn you into landscape designer -- but it can make you look like one.
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Winter Landscaping Tips
Learn how to add texture, color, and beauty to your yard with these six simple winter landscaping tips.
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Working with Landscape Professionals
It takes a wide range of skills to take a dream and turn it into a landscape. Here's a guide to the various professionals who can help ...
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Smart Side-Yard Solutions
Take a little-used space and turn it into a private, relaxing domain.
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10 Space-Saving Secrets for Your Landscape
Make the most of your landscape with these tips, tricks, and techniques.
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11 Simple Solutions for Small-Space Landscapes
Try these tips to maximize the impact in even the smallest landscapes.
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Landscape the Corner Lot
Making the most of a corner lot.
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Landscape the Narrow Lot
How to landscape a narrow lot for best effect.
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Landscape the Typical Lot
Give the average lot some planting pizzazz.
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Smart Ways to Use Tight Spots in Your Landscape
Look at these four combinations of plants and structures for ideas on making use of even the smallest garden spaces.
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Tips for a Big Landscape in a Small Space
Creative garden design turned this cramped yard into a tropical retreat. The lessons applied here can work in your yard, too.
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