Jun
29
Which are the major landscaping companies/ artists in the US?
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tshprung asked:
I have a biotech company that is manufacturing special plants and i am interested in business partners as well as to assess the US potential market, so i am looking for the major landscaping/ architects to advice me or even invest in my company.
KIMBERLY
I have a biotech company that is manufacturing special plants and i am interested in business partners as well as to assess the US potential market, so i am looking for the major landscaping/ architects to advice me or even invest in my company.
KIMBERLY
Jun
24
Can anyone recommend a website that will help you design landscaping for your home?
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Hawkeye4077 asked:
My husband and I have been in our house for 2 1/2 yrs, and still haven’t worked on the landscaping. Being our first home, I don’t have much experience w/ designing lndscp. Any ideas?
MARIBEL
My husband and I have been in our house for 2 1/2 yrs, and still haven’t worked on the landscaping. Being our first home, I don’t have much experience w/ designing lndscp. Any ideas?
MARIBEL
Jun
21
Landscaping Ideas: Free Online Gardening Tips for a Beautiful Yard : Edging Around a Flower Bed: Free Online Gardening Tips Landscaping Ideas
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expertvillage asked:
Learn landscaping ideas on how to use metal, rocks or wood to edge your flower bed to help contain the plants and provide an aesthetic touch in this free online gardening video.
DIANA
Jun
15
Create your Own Landscape Design : Landscaping Ideas and Tips : Adding Mosaic Stone Interest Pieces to your Landscape Design
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expertvillage asked:
Learn how to include garden mosaic interest pieces in your backyard landscape design, in this free video.
JACQUELIN
Jun
12
What can I put down to keep my cat from using the bathroom in the landscaping?
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Michelle T asked:
I have small gravel in the landscaping in front of my house. My outdoor cats use the gravel for their litterbox. I have tried pepper, ammonia, Listerine, and moth balls. Nothing so far has worked to keep them away. I have put out litter boxes so they can use them, and they do, but they keep coming back to the gravel.
I have small gravel in the landscaping in front of my house. My outdoor cats use the gravel for their litterbox. I have tried pepper, ammonia, Listerine, and moth balls. Nothing so far has worked to keep them away. I have put out litter boxes so they can use them, and they do, but they keep coming back to the gravel.
I am open to suggestions, as long as it is safe for the animals.
AURA
Jun
4
Plants In Landscaping Design
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Mr.Andrew Caxton asked:
Using plants in your landscaping design can help add color and texture to any area that you choose. Choosing the right plants will help them to stay healthy and beautiful.
One important landscaping material that you can use to make your landscape beautiful and relaxing is plants. There is a great variety of plants that you can use that are both beautiful and easy to take care of. The plants that you choose are determined by the area that you are landscaping and planting them in. There are other things that you need to consider before choosing your plants to ensure that they grow and thrive in your landscaping area. Landscaping plants are widely available at your local garden center or home improvement store.
Types of Plants To Use
When you begin to decide what kind of plants to use in your landscaping design, you will need to consider the area in which you are planting them so that you can find the best plants for that particular area. Evaluate what the makeup of the soil is, whether the area is sunny or shady, and whether the land is well-drained. Also, determine whether the plants fit in well with your particular design for the area. Keeping those things in mind will allow you to choose plants that will grow and thrive in your area.
The Foundation of Your Garden
If you have trees in mind for your landscaping, then you may want to consider using oak trees. These trees can adapt to almost any conditions and they are pest resistant. The beauty in the leaves of oak trees is unmatched and they can give you ample shade. Whatever part of the country that you live in, there is assuredly an oak tree that will work for both your landscaping design and your climate.
Another tree that you may want to consider is the maple tree. They also adapt well to any conditions and location. They also have beautiful colored leaves and will look great in just about any landscaping design. Trees are a great idea for a border or for a foundation for your garden. If you are not interested in trees for you landscaping, then plants and flowers may be more what you are looking for.
Using Shrubs in Landscaping
Shrubs are a wonderful choice to use in your creative landscaping design. They can help bring your landscaping design together and make it more cohesive. There is quite a large variety of shrubs for you to choose from, but you still need to take into consideration the planting area to make sure that your shrubs will flourish and stay beautiful. In most areas, hydrangeas are a wonderful choice. The vibrant colored flowers and green leaves will keep your yard looking great in the summer and in the fall.
Gap Fillers
When you are planning your landscaping design, you need to make sure that you have planned every detail. Accent the areas that you are working around. To accent your focal points, you can use perennials or annuals. They can also be used to fill in any empty spaces or to decorate your landscaping area with bright, vibrant color. There is a wide variety of different colored and sized flowers for you to find exactly the right plant for your particular area. Just think about the other colors in your landscaping design so that you can help enhance the area, rather than detract from it.
Whatever plants or trees that you choose for your landscaping design, you need to keep them healthy and beautiful. By watering and taking care of your plants, then you will have major benefits in the end.
BRIANNA
Using plants in your landscaping design can help add color and texture to any area that you choose. Choosing the right plants will help them to stay healthy and beautiful.
One important landscaping material that you can use to make your landscape beautiful and relaxing is plants. There is a great variety of plants that you can use that are both beautiful and easy to take care of. The plants that you choose are determined by the area that you are landscaping and planting them in. There are other things that you need to consider before choosing your plants to ensure that they grow and thrive in your landscaping area. Landscaping plants are widely available at your local garden center or home improvement store.
Types of Plants To Use
When you begin to decide what kind of plants to use in your landscaping design, you will need to consider the area in which you are planting them so that you can find the best plants for that particular area. Evaluate what the makeup of the soil is, whether the area is sunny or shady, and whether the land is well-drained. Also, determine whether the plants fit in well with your particular design for the area. Keeping those things in mind will allow you to choose plants that will grow and thrive in your area.
The Foundation of Your Garden
If you have trees in mind for your landscaping, then you may want to consider using oak trees. These trees can adapt to almost any conditions and they are pest resistant. The beauty in the leaves of oak trees is unmatched and they can give you ample shade. Whatever part of the country that you live in, there is assuredly an oak tree that will work for both your landscaping design and your climate.
Another tree that you may want to consider is the maple tree. They also adapt well to any conditions and location. They also have beautiful colored leaves and will look great in just about any landscaping design. Trees are a great idea for a border or for a foundation for your garden. If you are not interested in trees for you landscaping, then plants and flowers may be more what you are looking for.
Using Shrubs in Landscaping
Shrubs are a wonderful choice to use in your creative landscaping design. They can help bring your landscaping design together and make it more cohesive. There is quite a large variety of shrubs for you to choose from, but you still need to take into consideration the planting area to make sure that your shrubs will flourish and stay beautiful. In most areas, hydrangeas are a wonderful choice. The vibrant colored flowers and green leaves will keep your yard looking great in the summer and in the fall.
Gap Fillers
When you are planning your landscaping design, you need to make sure that you have planned every detail. Accent the areas that you are working around. To accent your focal points, you can use perennials or annuals. They can also be used to fill in any empty spaces or to decorate your landscaping area with bright, vibrant color. There is a wide variety of different colored and sized flowers for you to find exactly the right plant for your particular area. Just think about the other colors in your landscaping design so that you can help enhance the area, rather than detract from it.
Whatever plants or trees that you choose for your landscaping design, you need to keep them healthy and beautiful. By watering and taking care of your plants, then you will have major benefits in the end.
BRIANNA
May
29
irvingfan asked:
I want to landscape near my fence. I have hoed out the grass that was growing there. Do I need to put down that landscaping fabric or can I just put down the mulch? Will the mulch alone keep the grass from growing back?
MARA
I want to landscape near my fence. I have hoed out the grass that was growing there. Do I need to put down that landscaping fabric or can I just put down the mulch? Will the mulch alone keep the grass from growing back?
MARA
May
28
Landscape Gardening - How To Plan And Style Your Landscape Garden!
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Abhishek Agarwal asked:
This article will enlighten readers on the landscape gardening concept and its principal objectives. It will spell out how landscape gardening entails manifold choices.
Designing a Garden
Almost everybody is aware that landscape gardening consists of growing plants and perhaps making a pathway. However, what no one realizes that it is a kind of designer art. In fact, landscape gardening is the fashioning of the garden area and the back yard in ways that beautifully complement the house as well as your distinctive style. It is a well-crafted work of art, which begets a sense of awe when one gazes at it.
As one looks intently at a Rembrandt, looking over a completed and a well-planned landscape gardening project too is eloquent and heartwarming. Your body, mind, and soul revel in it.
Inspired by Intention
Careful planning is a key factor in any strategic project. For instance, a painter should establish as to why he is sketching the picture, since the intention inspires the way of thinking. Similarly, landscape gardening necessitates the same foresight. The practicality of the project should be well thought-out when landscape gardening. Landscape designing for private reasons would generate a noticeably distinct plan than a plan devised for just admiring the splendor.
The main intention of the project needs to be established and planning takes place around this intention. In the first instance, the question regarding the intention of the project - whether for official or private reasons - has to be laid down. Is the key intention chiefly for beholding it, as a leisure pursuit, to enhance the appearance of the home or to bestow shade? The answers to these queries will greatly influence and inspire the planning of a landscape gardening project.
Styles Involved
Fixing on the right style to be displayed in a plan for landscape gardening is the most important factor. There is a multitude of options. The styles used in landscape gardening embrace various kinds of personality, dwelling place, the local area or business. These are the elementary styles that should primarily be taken into account. The end result may be a blend of the different styles.
1. Customary and systematic silhouettes and models, like straight sidewalks and square garden plots, distinguish a formal garden setting.
2. A casual style is typified by circular flowerbeds, winding pathways and an assortment of flowers and plants not in fact, characteristic of a conventional garden.
3. An English garden has a very formal appearance and has some distinct features like elevated flowerbeds and the prospects of particular plants like roses. This style of landscaping gardening revolves around the kind of face-lift you wish to give the dwelling place or other structures on the grounds.
4. The Oriental garden too is quite formal and proper, but in a totally dissimilar manner. It contains flowers and plants commonly spotted in countries like Japan. It has an arrangement of plain lines and a severe form, but conveys a loveliness that is unusual to its origins.
5. The Woodland garden adopts a natural style and subtly blends into the background. Usually, this kind of a garden contains flowers and plants that are native to the region where a landscape project is to be executed.
Feng Shui
The term ‘Feng Shui’ refers to the positioning and laying out of objects in order to draw and augment the life giving energy. Landscape gardening in fact is a method of Feng Shui. By recognizing the intention of a project on landscape gardening and then by tallying the style with the intention, Feng Shui comes into being. The outcome is a lovely panorama that you can gaze upon and which invigorates, calms, or enlivens you, based on the ambiance you have created.
KRIS
This article will enlighten readers on the landscape gardening concept and its principal objectives. It will spell out how landscape gardening entails manifold choices.
Designing a Garden
Almost everybody is aware that landscape gardening consists of growing plants and perhaps making a pathway. However, what no one realizes that it is a kind of designer art. In fact, landscape gardening is the fashioning of the garden area and the back yard in ways that beautifully complement the house as well as your distinctive style. It is a well-crafted work of art, which begets a sense of awe when one gazes at it.
As one looks intently at a Rembrandt, looking over a completed and a well-planned landscape gardening project too is eloquent and heartwarming. Your body, mind, and soul revel in it.
Inspired by Intention
Careful planning is a key factor in any strategic project. For instance, a painter should establish as to why he is sketching the picture, since the intention inspires the way of thinking. Similarly, landscape gardening necessitates the same foresight. The practicality of the project should be well thought-out when landscape gardening. Landscape designing for private reasons would generate a noticeably distinct plan than a plan devised for just admiring the splendor.
The main intention of the project needs to be established and planning takes place around this intention. In the first instance, the question regarding the intention of the project - whether for official or private reasons - has to be laid down. Is the key intention chiefly for beholding it, as a leisure pursuit, to enhance the appearance of the home or to bestow shade? The answers to these queries will greatly influence and inspire the planning of a landscape gardening project.
Styles Involved
Fixing on the right style to be displayed in a plan for landscape gardening is the most important factor. There is a multitude of options. The styles used in landscape gardening embrace various kinds of personality, dwelling place, the local area or business. These are the elementary styles that should primarily be taken into account. The end result may be a blend of the different styles.
1. Customary and systematic silhouettes and models, like straight sidewalks and square garden plots, distinguish a formal garden setting.
2. A casual style is typified by circular flowerbeds, winding pathways and an assortment of flowers and plants not in fact, characteristic of a conventional garden.
3. An English garden has a very formal appearance and has some distinct features like elevated flowerbeds and the prospects of particular plants like roses. This style of landscaping gardening revolves around the kind of face-lift you wish to give the dwelling place or other structures on the grounds.
4. The Oriental garden too is quite formal and proper, but in a totally dissimilar manner. It contains flowers and plants commonly spotted in countries like Japan. It has an arrangement of plain lines and a severe form, but conveys a loveliness that is unusual to its origins.
5. The Woodland garden adopts a natural style and subtly blends into the background. Usually, this kind of a garden contains flowers and plants that are native to the region where a landscape project is to be executed.
Feng Shui
The term ‘Feng Shui’ refers to the positioning and laying out of objects in order to draw and augment the life giving energy. Landscape gardening in fact is a method of Feng Shui. By recognizing the intention of a project on landscape gardening and then by tallying the style with the intention, Feng Shui comes into being. The outcome is a lovely panorama that you can gaze upon and which invigorates, calms, or enlivens you, based on the ambiance you have created.
KRIS
May
27
Create your Own Landscape Design : Landscaping Ideas and Tips : Using Landscape Mulch
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expertvillage asked:
Learn how to mulch your landscape and why it is important, in this free video.
HUMBERTO
May
25
Firewise Landscaping Part 1: Overview
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PublicResourceOrg asked:
The National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Program
www.firewise.org
Firewise Landscaping Part 1: Overview
PMS 916-1/NFES 2411
(Part 1 Part 2 Part 3)
Part 1 includes an overview of the essentials of landscaping design in wildland fire-prone areas and how a well-planned landscape can offer effective protection from wildfire to any home.
DIAN