Tips, Tricks, and Answers

The following articles are available for this topic. Click the article's title (shown in bold) to see the associated article.

Adding a Garden Water Fountain. Adding elegance and visual interest to any garden, a water fountain also provides the relaxing sound of trickling water. Once installed, a garden water fountain can provide years of pleasure with minimal maintenance.

Adding to Your Home's Security. Shrubs and foliage are great for decorating, but can also create a home security problem. Make sure shrubs do not create hiding places, either by themselves or by covering up light that would reveal a thief. Make sure trees and trimmed back from upper windows and balconies. Use thorny shrubs as a deterrent to sneaking around in your yard.

Beautiful Garden Ornaments. When creatively placing garden ornaments, remember to keep it simple. Overburdening your garden with beautiful garden ornaments results in mere clutter. Allow the garden ornaments to work comfortably with your plants.

Building a Retaining Wall. Slopes are good for their beauty, but flat land is much better for gardening. Make a terrace with a retaining wall. This can be done with some pre-fabricated retaining stones and some hard work. Dig a level trench and put your stones down on top of each other, making sure they are all interlocked. Fill up the area behind the wall and cover with topsoil.

Easy to Install Solar Garden Lights. Solar garden lighting is very easy to install yourself, providing a low-cost alternative to hiring an electrician to run wiring. Not only is it low-cost, it is moveable, creating new lighting for any occasion.

Functional Wind Chimes for your Garden. Mostly used for decorative purposes, wind chimes are also used to forecast weather. Functional wind chimes for your garden can alert you to coming storms or hot doldrums in summer.

Whimsical Garden Decor. If you are lighthearted, you may prefer using whimsical decor in your garden, rather than staunch statuary. While there are no hard-and-fast rules when choosing whimsical garden decor, the goal is to enhance your garden, and not overpower it with accents.

More Information

The following are additional topics related to the subject 'Landscaping.' A bracketed number after the topic indicates how many articles are related to that subject.