Landscaping is usually a fairly big task, consuming much time and energy. But before you hire that professional, here are some tips that could save both time and money.

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Tips For Landscaping Your Garden

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You can have the most elaborate backyard in the entire neighborhood, but if it isn’t functional, you have built it in vain. We all want to have beautiful and flourishing gardens, but when we have a family, we must also take into consideration the needs of the other members.

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Plan Your Garden For The Whole Family

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Following up on the articles on Japanese Gardens and Zen Gardens, here is another. A Balinese garden is a garden of exuberant tropical foliage, amongst streams and waterfalls. It is a replica of the natural, green, tropical paradise, as found in Bali.

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Balinese Garden – A Tropical Paradise

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I posted an article last week, on Japanese gardens and I had so many comments on the subject that I decided to follow up with something similar. Today we look at Zen gardens. A Zen garden is an ancient Japanese garden, that monks use to use, to meditate and contemplate and they date all the way back to the thirteenth century.

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Zen Garden - A Perfect Spot For Relaxation And Reflection

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Decorative grasses, sometimes called ornamental grasses make for attractive garden displays and are perfect for hiding an otherwise ugly feature, such as a manhole, sump, old tree stump or pile of rubble, especially if this is in the neighbor’s yard. Let’s take a look at one of these, called Job’s tears, which has many practical uses.

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An Ornamental Grass With Many Uses

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An old Chinese Proverb says “If you want to be happy for ever, make a garden.” Everyone has their own likes, or dislikes in planning a garden. Formal and victorian style gardens have gone out of fashion long ago. A rose garden can still also look very formal, but if one introduces climbing roses, on an arch, or trellis work, or a few rustic steps with a shale pathway, it will enhance the garden and make it look more natural.

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How To Plan Your Garden Layout

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Living in South Africa, where we have a lot of sun, our shrubs and trees grow rather quickly. For example, an Almond tree will take around 9 years to grow to a height of 4m in England, but will reach the same height in just 4 years, in South Africa.

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How To Grow Trees And Shrubs In Your Garden

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These climbers, or creepers are usually used to hide a large blank exterior wall, fence, or gate. These can be leafy climbers, with, or without flowers and these can add texture and colour to a dull surface. They are easy to grow and maintain.

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How To Use Climbing Plants In Your Garden

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Home and garden decorating is a hot topic nowadays. This is evident in television programming. Every second television show is related to decorating your home and garden. Programs such as The Decorating Challenge, Curb Appeal and The House Doctor are great examples of home and garden decorating shows. Oh, and don’t forget Oprah!

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Home & Garden Decorating

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There are many new trends surfacing in gardening these days and water gardening is one of the main new interests. Water gardening can be in the form of waterfalls, ponds and fountains, all of which can be enhanced by rockwork combinations and lighting, plants and fish. Water gardening doesn’t have to be a pond, or natural water source either, it can just as easily consist of a plastic tub, or basically anything that can hold water.

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How To Create A Water Garden

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