Yard Landscaping and Gardening

How-to Information on Maintaining Yards and Growing Gardens





Yard Landscaping provides character and value to your home. A landscaped yard can provide a place for both recreation and relaxation. Flower gardens and vegetable gardens provide beauty and healthy food to your home and family.

Yard landscaping can vary in scope from simply planting grass, to as extensive as clearing land and regrading the property around your home.

When planning a yard landscaping project, you may want to consider buying a yard and garden design software package.

They offer cool features that allow you to do such things as add various types of grass, and shrubs to your yard and garden plans. They can provide a fairly accurate representation of the finished yard and garden landscape.

Yard landscaping can also include the use of yard and garden décor items such as fountains, coy ponds, and statues. In addition, it can also include the installation of an arbor. See our How to Build an Arbor Ebook to learn more about building arbors.

Included in the articles below is helpful information on yard landscaping, yard maintenance, lawn care, flower gardening and vegetable gardens. In addition we also include information on installing fences, mailboxes and other exterior home related projects.

Yard and Garden Videos 

Yard Landscaping and Lawn Care

Flower Gardens and Vegetable Gardening

Fence Installation

Mailbox Installation

Other Exterior Home Projects

Garden Related Book Reviews 

Planning to have a Brick or Paver Walkway Installed by a Landscaping Contractor but not sure what questions to ask to ensure you hire the right one? See HomeAdditionPlus.com’s Brick and Paver Walkway Bid Sheet. The Brick and Paver Walkway Bid Sheet will help ensure that your walkway project goes smoothly and you get the finished walkway you are looking for.


Additional Lawn and Garden Resources

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