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Having a garden at home can bring about many benefits. The most obvious benefit is that it makes the surroundings beautiful. In addition, if you have a vegetable garden, you can save money and you get to enjoy organic vegetables. Many fitness experts say that gardening can burn a lot of calories. Moreover, many health gurus believe that working with the soil has a lot of heath benefits. There are many gardening and landscaping ideas for those who wish to enjoy the benefits of your backyards.GardeningGardens can be categorized in several categories. The kinds of plants in the garden can create its own theme. For instance you can have a flower or vegetable garden, rose garden, organic garden and many more. They are also inspired by some countries most notably are Chinese, Japanese, and English gardens. Other kinds are the indoor garden, French Landscape garden, hanging garden, water garden, hedge maze garden and so on.The different kinds of gardens can help individuals come up with gardening and landscaping ideas. After deciding on the kinds of garden you want, you can start planning and designing your own garden. Many garden experts suggest that you pick a garden design which can be [more..]

Turing your yard of grassland into a beautiful garden design through effective landscaping is challenging but not impossible. Although there is not one single magical formula that will transform a veritable blank space of mud and grass into a successful green landscape, you definitely have the freedom to select your plants and design a garden to make a lasting impression. In order to achieve the desired results, it is essential to plan every step of your gardening methodically.Here are some essential landscaping tips that will help you to understand the basics of garden designing and landscaping with different flowers, trees and plants.Planning your landscaping spaceThe first step would be planning your landscaping space. Planning of the desired space has to be done according to the size and shape of your garden plot. If you like your space and openness to be pronounced, then you could consider covering a major part of the area with a neat and thick lawn and encircling it with trees and flowering plants. Of course, if you have sufficient garden area, then you have the option of putting together several elements that could make an impressive garden design.Planning your gardening design spaceThe next step would be [more..]

Living and working in the Eastern Mediterranean, I've come to the conclusion that there's one tree amongst many that is unmatched in its suitability for a small home garden in a dry climate. That tree is Lagerstroemia indica, which you may know as Crape Myrtle. It is literally a year round performer.It's not that it simply looks good 12 months of the year, rather it looks different and good all year. In the summer you get a magnificent flower display, ranging from pink, red or white, depending on the variety. In the autumn, you get fall colour. This varies of course with the length and coldness of the season, but in places where the winter is fairly chilly, the autumn leaf display can be quite spectacular. When out of leaf, the tree makes a delightful silhouette, where the reddish, pealing bark is an added feature. Come springtime, and the juvenile leaves have that bright green, fresh colour special to deciduous trees and absent from evergreens.These factors funnily enough, are not sufficient in themselves to make the decision in favour of this or that tree. Many a serious mistake has been made because the home owner has been so impressed by [more..]