A Guide to Landscaping Basics
David BeaulieuHow to Build Wood Lattice ScreensA Simple Way to Hide Eyesores and Gain PrivacyLattice screens can hide many an imperfection in your yard. You may have an unsightly HVAC unit lying on the ground next…
A Guide to Landscape Property Lines
Illustration: Lisa Fasol © The Spruce, 2018Plants can provide a softer, more natural, and more attractive border between houses than a privacy fence. Before landscaping property lines, always make sure you know precisely where the boundary…
A Guide to Landscape Design for Beginners
Robin Smith/Photolibrary/Getty ImagesDesigning a Garden: Principles Do-It-Yourselfers Need to Know"Landscape design" sounds rather imposing. To be sure, one could spend years studying all the ideas in this field. But what about the DIY'er who wants to…
A Guide to Landscape Colour Scheme Ideas
Swallowtail Garden Seed/Flickr/Public DomainLandscape Colour Schemes: Ideas to Use for Your Own GardenJocelyn Erskine-Kellie/Flickr/CC BY 2.0Colour, along with form, line, texture, and scale, is one of the basic elements of landscape design. In the pictures below,…
A Guide to Installing Landscape Fabrics
Amazon.comHow to Install Landscape FabricsWhat Are the Uses for Landscape Fabrics?Landscape fabric is sold under various brand names. I used Weed-X for my project. David BeaulieuWhy use landscape fabrics? Consider this situation:Running down the middle of a space…
A Guide to Front Garden Landscaping Mistakes to Avoid
Garden statues decorate a front lawn. Bill Boch/Getty ImagesSure, It's Your Garden. But Everyone Else has to Look at ItOur homes and Gardens are often personal expressions of who we are, and unless we live under the…
A Guide to Draw Landscape Plans
Sharpen your pencils, it's time to draw a landscape plan. darrya/Getty ImagesA Do-It-Yourselfer's GuideYou say that you’d like to learn how to draw landscape plans, but you’re downright intimidated by the scope of such a task? All…
A Guide to Do It Yourself Landscape Design
David BeaulieuLearn to Balance Aesthetic, Practical NeedsDefining do-it-yourself landscape design is a useful exercise: By exploring all its ins and outs, we may discover an aspect of this diverse field that we've been overlooking all this…
A Guide to Choosing the Best Landscape Materials
Patio with sand and pea gravel. Andreas von Einsiedel / Getty ImagesHow to Choose the Right Hardscape MaterialTile, pebbles and wood hardscape materials. Michael Wells/Getty ImagesHardscape is as essential to a residential outdoor living space as softscape, which is…
A Guide to Building Stone Retaining Walls
Small stone retaining walls are doable for DIY'ers. Wendy Yessler / EyeEm/Getty ImagesIf 3 Feet Tall or Less, Do the Job YourselfThis tutorial is designed for beginners interested in building stone retaining walls, 3 feet in height or shorter, using…