Home & Garden
Your Garden Feels Small Because You Can See All Of It At Once
Stand at your back door and look out. If your eye reaches the far fence in about a second and there is nothing on the way to slow it do...
7 Key Reasons to Use Organic Bark Mulch for Healthier Garden Beds
Every good gardener will have some practices that he/she adheres to at all times, and one of them is keeping soil covered at all times....
Classic Garden Ideas from European Estates, and Which One Belongs in Your Yard
The gardens people fall for on European estates are almost never the grand ones. It's the worn corners, a bench gone grey under a climb...
This Summer, You Protect Your Home From Heat With Better Windows
Summer is here, and if you're the type who dreads the heat more than you look forward to the seaside, you're probably already thinking ...
What Alaska Property Owners Do in the Six Weeks Before Freeze Up
Termination dust shows up on the Chugach in early September. That's the first snow line on the peaks, visible from anywhere in the Anch...
Luxury Backyard Transformations: 7 Ideas That Turn a Yard Into a Living Space
Spend enough time around finished pool projects and you start to notice something. The yards that feel genuinely high-end aren't always...
Why Native Plants Are the Smartest Investment for a Low-Maintenance Yard
Now, if you've been gardening seriously for any length of time, you've eliminated the obvious errors of the frost-tender tropicals that...
6 Beautiful Material Ideas for a Softer, More Inviting Patio or Terrace
Somewhere between the polished concrete trend of the 2010s and the current desire for outdoor spaces that actually feel like extensions...
How to Light a Large Backyard When You Don’t Have Streetlights Doing the Work
If you live rural or semi-rural, you already know the problem. The sun goes down and your backyard disappears. Not dimly lit — gone. Th...
Why More Homeowners Are Converting Shipping Containers Into Garden Studios (And What Goes Wrong)
A shipping container garden studio is a repurposed 20ft or 40ft steel freight unit — originally built to carry goods across oceans — co...
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