DIY: A Sloped Rock Garden
Understanding how to landscape on a slope can create a beautifully unexpected landscaping feat that will impress onlookers. A sloped rock garden can boost curb appeal if you’re trying to sell your home or it can be the perfect way to spruce up a trouble spot in your otherwise gorgeous garden.
On a slope or hillside, water and nutrients will simply slide down your incline making it hard to grow plants. Building a rock garden on a slope creates the ideal natural barrier to slow or stop the loss of essential water, nutrients, and fertilizers.
Read until the end to find out how to build your hillside rock garden.
Using Limestone Screenings for Your Home & Garden Projects
Limestone Screenings, or F5 is composed of crushed limestone that is a by-product of the rock mining process. When rock is crushed it is passed through several screens to catch the larger pieces. The limestone screening is what falls off and can be used for other purposes.
Here are 3 ways to use your limestone screening.
5 Clever Landscaping Ideas to Reduce Your Cooling Costs This Summer
As summer approaches, we are already starting to see triple digit temperatures in many cities and suburbs of America. You may be wondering if there is anything you can do to keep your energy costs down during the hot season.
Here are 5 helpful landscaping tips to help you keep your home cooler this year.
DIY: What To Do With Extra Dirt After a Landscaping Project
Here are 3 ideas to use up leftover dirt from your DIY home landscaping project.