Landscaping Ideas

The open season for “Garden Days” returns to delight hundreds of people and, incidentally, to secure financial aid for all sorts of worthy causes.  Of those who take advantage of

Opaque walls have given way to transparency in most of today’s houses. Outdoors, banks, if any, have given way to walls of brick or stone or ledges, broken by flights

Entrance or approach plantings for present-day houses offer more of a challenge than some homeowners realize. The ancient practice of setting out a few shrubs, a vine, or a tree

My home is in the woods, so far north that from mid-October to May, the garden is frost-hound. Therefore I must content myself for the most part during this period

New Years! Bells are ringing everywhere, and one of the happy events they presage is the arrival of gloriously illustrated, shiny new garden catalogs. For all gardeners this is a

“IMPULSE BUYING” is a part of modern merchandising in supermarkets, gift shops, drug stores, and even nurseries. If you depend on such a practice for selecting your plants, however, your

Ever since I contracted “gardening fever,” I dreamed of a “careless garden,” devoid of much of the backbreaking labor and constant attention my friends found necessary to maintain their home

Actually, a house built on a slope need not be a problem for the owner who tackles the job after carefully studying all angles.  Part I of this story of

The first killing frosts have stopped visible activity in the garden. But many straightforward, warm days give the gardener an urge to dig. This is good because digging the soil