A good garden layout makes all the difference. It’s what turns a random patch of plants into a space that feels calm, useful, ...

Plant Layout Considerations The positioning of the raised bed itself will be of primary importance. First, you should make sure you have positioned the bed in the right location in your garden ...

When planning a new garden, getting the layout right pays dividends immediately and over the long term. A good garden layout makes the space more attractive and functional and can help reduce time ...

How to Create a Vegetable Garden Layout Create a layout based on what you want, your environment, and how soon you start. Physically draw it out on paper or a computer.

A unified landscape design leads to the sense that everything is working together to create a whole. Adopting a time tested design theme or style, such as a Formal Garden, Japanese Garden or ...

Pretty yet Practical When considering driveway landscape ideas, also think about the conditions. In the North, for instance, is there a place to shovel or blow snow? And, no matter where you live, you ...

Inside the boxes, Janice Parker, a landscape architect from her eponymous firm, Janice Parker Landscape Architects, makes sure that her plants are spread in neat rows, with exposed soil in between ...

It’s time for another installment of Growing with Zehr’s Flower and Landscaping. We get creative with garden design. Nick and ...

Landscape design can be an abstract concept to grasp. This is because it's tougher to visualize the effect of an entire garden than to imagine a single element in the mind's eye, such as a flower ...

Plant texture is highly important when trying to emphasize structure in the landscape. Divided into course, medium and fine texture, each juxtaposed onto each other adds dimension.

Photo from late December. (Tom Karwin) A garden development resolution might be motivated by moving to a new garden, deciding to improve an unsatisfying landscape, or launching a search for new ideas.

15th Annual Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 14 and Sunday, April 15 Where: Westside and South Bay on day one.