garden design

Are You Making The Most Of Sweat Equity

pongdet — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:20:16 +0000

Sweat equity is using your labor to make home improvements that increase the value of your home.

What has changed?

The do-it-yourself home renovation market has expanded dramatically over the past 20 years. Manufactures are now producing products aimed directly at the home handy perso...

Landscape Plans An Essential Element

pongdet — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:04:00 +0000

Landscape plans are essential to persons planning to landscape their gardens on their own. One of the common mistakes is not properly planning out all the activities in redesigning a landscape. This can often lead to the feeling that what started as a simple project is now just too much work.

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How to Give Your Southwestern Backyard a True Southwestern Flair

pongdet — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:02:15 +0000

Let's face it, the Southwestern Backyard is not the same as any other backyard. Try to plant a nice lawn, and you cultivate an expanse of brown crusty dead stuff. Or you will run up a water bill worthy of an Olympic swimming pool.

So how in the world do you make the most of what the desert...

Add Value to Your Home - Landscaping

pongdet — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:31:12 +0000

Just recently my friend had his house appraised between $800,000 and $815,000 by two different independent house valuators. He spent two days hard work in the garden placing new grass on mats, bringing in new plants, putting creepers on the wall, and adding a water feature. He sold his house at a...

Lawn Sprinkler Systems - Your Way To The Greenest Lawn In Town

pongdet — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:16:15 +0000

Maintaining a luscious and green lawn is best and easiest done by getting one of those lawn sprinkler systems. Not only do they provide you with the convenience of watering your lawn automatically, they also ensure that your turf gets the optimal irrigation it needs. While lawn sprinkler systems ...

Backyard Landscaping Ideas

pongdet — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:04:06 +0000

No matter where you live, there's nothing better than relaxing outdoors on a warm summer night watching your backyard landscaping ideas come to life.

Unfortunately, re-landscaping your entire backyard during the course of one growing season can be back breaking, expensive and requires majo...

Reusing and Recycling Carwash Waste Wash Water for Landscaping; Public Relations

pongdet — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:25:14 +0000

Recently a very innovative and bright business-marketing student had a brilliant idea for her marketing project. Building a filtration and reverse osmosis system to clean car wash water at a car wash and then reuse it for all the other water needs at the car wash such as landscaping, toilets and ...

Installing A Receptacle In A Landscaping Project

pongdet — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:17:10 +0000

Many landscaping projects require a 120 VAC circuit to power lighting and other electrical devices such as pumps for ponds.

The actual placement of a receptacle within your landscaping project needs to be thought out carefully as they are difficult to relocate if you place it wrong the firs...

Owning Lawn Care and Land Scaping Business Opportunities

pongdet — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:10:01 +0000

Do you get happy when outside? If so then a lawn Care franchise opportunity might be the one thing that is perfect for you and your family. Virtually all people that own homes need lawn Care and Landscaping services of one type or other each year, and this need has created numbers of chances for ...

How to Plant a Heather Garden

pongdet — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:21:09 +0000

When planning a garden of heather, begin by making an outline of your area first. If you're planning a border, start from the back of the bed with the taller plants and work forward; if the bed is to be viewed from all sides, begin sketching your design from the center out. If you have room, pla...

How Rural Businesses Can Gain Hundreds of Long Lasting Leads

pongdet — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:14:13 +0000

Latest research pinpoints the problems facing rural business owners who have been forced to diversify and how to harness the latest marketing methods to achieve enduring growth.

Recent research carried out by specialist marketing firm GB Solutions showed that 93% of rural business owners an...

Fountains for Your Garden

pongdet — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:18:08 +0000

There are many ideas to use for your garden fountain. You could use garden fountains as the basis for your theme in your garden. There are many fountains that resemble animals, flowers and plants. Then there are also fountains of statues of people and religious themes like the famous angels. Once...

Bad Press or No Press

pongdet — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:29:16 +0000

It seems that Ascot Realty in Buford, Georgia is having more than a little bad luck. First, a Buford family reports in the Gwinnett Daily Online that the company destroyed their landscaped yard on July 20th. Two days later, the same paper reports that the frame of a house fell after a violent rai...

Home Composting 10 Ways to Make It Successful for You

pongdet — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:19:11 +0000

Gardening is a fun and invigorating activity. It keeps one busy and productive and brings the creativity and ingenuity in everyone. Gardening beautifies our homes but it also produces a good deal of yard waste. What better way to make this waste wok out for you than to use it to enrich your garde...

Plan for Winter Plantings

pongdet — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:04:16 +0000

Part four in a series

It's hard to think about winter when our gardens are in full bloom and the vegetables are ripening on the vine! But we must keep winter in mind when we are planning our landscape. Afterall, we have to look at our landscape all year long, including winter. (Unles...