Steve Boulden

Creative Planting Ideas for Trees In The Landscape

Trees are the most important – and certainly the largest – living parts of a home landscape. Whether your garden is a courtyard or 25 acres of fertile farmland, it is usually possible to include at least one tree in your landscape design. The positions of... Read >

Front Yard Makeover - 8 Easy Steps To Restore Lost Curb Appeal

Restoring curb appeal to a run down front yard landscape can often be more of a challenge than installing an entirely new landscape. Not being able to see past the existing design can blind us to the possibilities of what our yard can become. One thing th... Read >

Front Yard Landscaping 101

Landscapes and gardens that include both the front and backyard of a property will usually stay within the same theme and style for both front and back. And even if there is a slight variation, it is usually to comply to the differences in purpose between... Read >

Top Tips for Planting a Wildflower Meadow Garden

Planting a wildflower meadow garden is a project that appeals to a lot of folks simply because they look good and require very little maintenance. Also, a wide assortment of flowers, grasses and plants can be grown together without any rigid specific desi... Read >

The Environmentally Responsible Lawn

Most lawns are far from being an environmentally responsible element of a landscape. Their constant demand of water, dependence on chemical fertilizers, and need for insecticides and herbicides, makes them more of an environmental casualty than anything e... Read >

Landscaping Considerations For Christmas Decorating

Every landscaping project has different considerations according to the needs and wants of the owner. Decorating for Christmas and other holidays is a big deal to a lot of folks and so planning electrical access specifically for it into their landscaping ... Read >

Considerations For Designing Small Gardens

A garden, even a small one, can accent and add beauty to a home. If you've avoided creating a garden because you think that you don't have the space, you may want to rethink it. You can make a nice little garden in an unused corner or even an area as smal... Read >

Landscape Design For Outdoor Dining and cooking

Although it seems almost impossible to contemplate before spring has so much as pushed a daffodil through the soil, cooking food and eating it in the open air are two very pleasurable aspects of summer. The question is, does your landscape plan take these... Read >

Support And Care For Climbing Roses

Are roses the most admired of all plants? It is difficult to know how to prove it, but just looking around seems to suggest it's true. Most gardens have at least one or two roses. Among the reasons for their popularity is the great variety in form and hab... Read >

Innovative Desert Landscaping Styles

Deserts are defined not by heat, but by aridity. Most deserts have less than 10 inches of rainfall a year, and this is the natural situation in significant parts of the south-west of the United States. Climate change may be expected to extend the area sub... Read >

Garden Espaliers - Growing A Wall Of Fruit

The word "espalier" is both a verb and a noun. It means to create a wall of fruit. That is done by creating a framework to support the limbs of the fruiting plant. The structure can be free-standing, in the middle of a lawn or garden plot; or it can be er... Read >

Landscape Design - Considering Microclimates In The Plan

Wherever you live, and whatever the weather conditions in your area, your garden will have its own special climate - its microclimate - brought about by a number of factors working together. The factors include the orientation of your site, its protection... Read >

Designing Garden Path Access With Stepping Stones

Despite the best efforts of landscape planners, sometimes parts of a garden are used for purposes for which they were not originally designed. If you notice tracks or worn patches on a lawn, or, worse, across a flowerbed, it is a sure sign that a hard sur... Read >

Privacy Screening In Garden Design

Most gardens have an area that is best hidden from public view - perhaps it's the place where you have your useful, but possibly unattractive, compost heap. Or it might be other utilities, such as a recycling bin or a clothesline, which you would prefer t... Read >

A Decorative Birding Garden

Birds can create some annoyance in the garden by scratching up seeds or pecking ripening fruit but most gardeners consider their feathered friends a desirable part of the gardenscape. If you want to create a bird-friendly zone in your garden, you can comb... Read >