The Garden Gazebo | Your Back Yard Retreat

Posted by GuestPoster on Oct 3, 2011

Level Hillside Landscapes With Retaining Wall Blocks

Often, beautiful landscapes and views mean building a home on the side of a steep hill or mountain. On the other hand, maintaining a lawn and landscape can be difficult in these locations, which causes an issue for a lot of homeowners. Nevertheless, there is a solution, such as retaining wall blocks, which can assist in leveling these types of lawns and can be very advantageous when facing such...

Posted by GuestPoster on Sep 30, 2011

Growing Organic Cucumbers

Cucumbers have many uses. You can use it to make pickles, salad, or simply eat them raw as a snack. You can also use it as a beautifying agent to help rest the eyes and minimize wrinkles. This versatile plant also has many medicinal properties. The growth of organic cucumbers in your garden should always be on top of the list of gardening. The first thing to consider time when planting the cucumber...

Posted by GuestPoster on Sep 26, 2011

Where to Buy Garden Plants on a Budget

When I lived on the east coast, I use to love taking a Sunday drive through the more prominent neighborhoods and admire how absolutely beautiful their landscape looked. Then I would go home to my house on base and wish I knew where to buy plants like that and wonder if I could even afford to do so when money was just as tight as it is today. Now years later, I’ve learned that even when you’re working...

Posted by Jason Fariview on Sep 12, 2011

Retaining Walls and Raised Bed Gardening

Raised Bed Gardening & Retaining Walls Garden structures designed to hold soil above the existing soil found in the ground include retaining walls and raised beds. They can range from simple piles of stones, tall concrete barriers, wooden boxes, and elegant pavers. These do much more than just hold soil, retaining walls and raised beds be a beautiful design feature in your backyard garden....

Posted by Jason Fariview on Sep 10, 2011

Flower Bed Design Ideas

Flower Bed Design Ideas One of the best and most often used ways to design a flower bed that is full of beautiful flowering plants, and wonderful aromas is to take full advantage of flower beds, as well as utilizing boarders for definition in your graden. Flower bed designs are much more than just a collection of your favorite plants, they are suppose to bring a sense of balance and symmetry to...

Posted by GuestPoster on Sep 4, 2011

How To Build A Storage Shed For Storing Your Articles Safely

Building a storage shed can be a good choice for someone who is searching for an ideal option to store his extra and used articles. Depending on the availability of space, one can easily select the best position for making storage shed. However, space is not the only thing that you need to note while planning to build storage. If you want to learn how to build a metal shed, you also need to be careful...

Posted by Jason Fariview on Sep 2, 2011

Crepe Myrtle Pruning

Crepe Myrtle Pruning Have you ever thought it’s time to prune my crepe myrtle, but when you actually got out there to do it you aren’t sure where to even begin. How much do you cut back? If you start in without knowing how to prune the crepe myrtle properly you are at risk of over-pruning. How do you know if you’ve over pruned your crepe myrtle? A sure tell sign is when...

Posted by Jason Fariview on Sep 1, 2011

Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental Grasses In most cases when you hear the word grass you instantly imagine a well manicured lawn, one that you have to keep up, mow and constantly nurture. Ornamental grasses are a much different type of grass, they are grasses that you do not mow. Ornamental grasses form a fountain like clump, while some almost look like a bush, others are relaxed and sagging. From these different clumps...