by Rick Smit

Garden and Landscape Maintenance Tips

Article by Landscaping Expert

When you have a great looking garden and lawn it gives your home what is known as kerb appeal. This not only adds a great deal of value to the home, but gives the homeowner a sense of pride and satisfaction in the home they own. A beautiful lawn is probably the single biggest factor in adding good looks to your home and it is often missing in areas of new buildings due to the site being dozed to level it.

Often the developers do not save the topsoil and put it back over the top after they have finished levelling. But grass cannot grow well on sub soil that is lacking the correct nutrients. And lawn that is not healthy is more prone to disease and insect attack. In Brisbane, lawn grubs can be a pest and do lots of damage in lawns, leaving them with brown, unsightly patches.

If your lawn is non-existent or growing on clay and looking shabby due to insect attack, it is imperative to add more topsoil. Companies that specialise in turf supply in Brisbane will usually advise on what must be done to prepare the site for new turf. Some will even do it for you. If they do not, make sure you do not go to the expense of laying new turf on sub soil, or you will simply have the same problem.

Once you have your soil and lawn sorted out, you will be able to spend some time in choosing landscape supplies in Brisbane. You may choose to have a pebbled section to cut down on mowing or just to add another colour and texture to your landscape design. Pebbles often look good with a water feature or as inorganic mulch over gardens.

In these days when costs are sky-rocketing and people often work all week, a low maintenance garden is necessary. By choosing easy-care perennials and permanent shrubs and trees any garden can look attractive all year round and give that kerb appeal to your home that will make the neighbours envious.

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by Shkumbin

How To: Landscaape the Perfect Garden (from the experts at Chris Orser Landscaping)

Article by Bucks County, PA; Chris Orser Landscaping

The ideal garden consists of many things. Color, placement, variety and longevity make for seasons of delightful viewing and enjoyment of your garden. January and February are the perfect months for planning your garden. Put on your coat and walk around your garden to see what is there, writing down what worked in last year's garden and what didn't work. By learning from your past joys and mistakes you can consider removing plants that didn't do well and replace them with ones that will. Visit

Another option available for bedding plants is to take cuttings from indoor plants. Coleus, which comes in a variety of colors and shapes, are a common house plant. Take several cuttings and root them in a container filled with water. They will thrive as annuals in your flowerbed. Order your seeds and be ready to plant upon arrival. Make sure the containers you use allows for proper drainage and keep the seeds in an area where the temperature is at least 50 degrees. Enjoy watching your seeds germinate and grow for the next several weeks.

Chris Orser Landscaping, Inc. has consistently been providing high quality services to the Doylestown, PA and Bucks County areas for over 15 years. We are a complete design & build company. Chris Orser Landscaping, Inc. specializes in all areas of landscaping: design, brick and paver patios, walkways, retaining walls, ponds, waterfalls, pondless waterfalls, and other water features, plantings, drainage, lawn mowing, spring clean-ups, fall clean-ups, pruning, tree removal, fertilization, lawn aeration, pest control, snow plowing, de-icing, gutter cleaning, and firewood delivery.

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We also carry a highly effective de-icing product called "Magic Salt". Magic Salt has a working temperature of -35 degrees, whereas regular rock salt is ineffective below 18 degrees. Magic Salt is also bio-degradable and plant and pet friendly. Also, it won't leave behind any of the white residue like regular de-icing salt would. To learn more, call (215) 285-9161 or visit our website at http://www.magicsaltpa.net

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The garden gate is a traditional part of landscaping design ( www.landscaping-ideas-for-gardening.com )and one we can use in very clear ways to add to our garden. First, they need not be expensive but can reflect the tastes and budget of the gardener. We use them to "frame the view" of the garden - much like you use a picture frame to set off and focus attention on the painting. Consider what is behind the gate - and what people will see with a quick view into the garden. We use a garden gate to create mystery in our gardens. A gate says, there's something behind here you can't see. And the first question in the viewers mind is, "What's on the other side?" We can use a garden gate then to enhance our privacy. We all need a refuge from the stress of living and a gate in the garden design creates a very private space both visually and physically. You can't see inside and you can get inside. Garden gates reflect the overall landscape design. Formal gardens get formal gates while cottage garden gates reflect the rustic nature of the area. Continue your landscaping beyond the garden to include the gate in your planning. For example, an 'open" style of gate borrows the view from next door through the various holes in the gate while a solid gate shuts off the view and focusses attention within the garden itself. This and other garden videos can be seen at www.douggreensgarden.com
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A few nice landscaping images I found:

I miss Osmania Landscape Garden


Image by Venu Dharmaji
Its been quite some time that we have been to Osmania Landscape Garden. I am busy at home even in the weekends since my Mom is not well. Hope to see if I can catch up this Sunday and spend couple of hours with the new 50mm prime lens

Thanks a lot for stopping by and giving such lovely comments!

Munic / München: aerial landscape view 14.477.12


Image by Juergen Kurlvink
Hear: ... Air - Joh.Seb. Bach ... AND
see SLIDE Show: from our Newest or Unvalued ... or look ... in bigly . or . in map

☻ Ort ...: Luftansicht Landschaft nahe München ... /... Oberbayern ... im ...
♦ Freistaat Bayern in Deutschland
☻ Place.: Landscape view near Munic .. / .. Upper Bavaria ... in the ...
♦ Free State of Bavaria in Germany

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The Olympic Mountains as seen from Fremont, Seattle - landscape panorama


Image by jcolman
Yes, this is the view out my apartment window.

Description of the Olympic Mountains from the United States Geological Service (USGS):

"Consider the Olympic Mountains to be an ancient sea floor that has been wedged into the North American Continent and uplifted into the atmosphere by surrounding geologic pressures. As the topmost layer of the sea floor is scraped off and crumpled on to the North American Plate, the lower branch dives beneath Olympic creating heat and pressure that eventually form the volcanoes of the Cascades.

"To the north and east of the Olympic Peninsula lie the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Hood Canal. These bodies of water along with Puget Sound were carved by ice sheets over 13,000 years ago.

"The Olympic Mountains are not very high -- Mount Olympus, the highest, is just under 8,000 feet -- but they rise almost from the water's edge and intercept moisture-rich air masses that move in from the Pacific. As this air is forced over the mountains, it cools and releases moisture in the form of rain or snow. At lower elevations rain nurtures the forests while at higher elevations snow adds to glacial masses that relentlessly carve the landscape. The mountains wring precipitation out of the air so effectively that areas on the northeast corner of the peninsula experience a rain shadow and get very little rain. The town of Sequim gets only 17 inches a year, while less than 30 miles away Mount Olympus receives over 220 inches falling mostly as snow.

"There are about 266 glaciers crowning the Olympics peaks; most of them are quite small in contrast to the great rivers of ice in Alaska. The prominent glaciers are those on Mount Olympus covering approximately ten square miles. Beyond the Olympic complex are the glaciers of Mount Carrie, the Bailey Range, Mount Christie, and Mount Anderson."

Description of the Olympic Mountains from Wikipedia:

"The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. The mountains are not especially high - Mount Olympus is the highest at 7,962 ft (2,427 m) - but the western slopes of the Olympics face the Pacific Ocean and are thus the wettest place in the 48 contiguous states... Most of the mountains are protected within the bounds of the Olympic National Park. Physiographically, they are a section of the larger Pacific Border province, which in turn are part of the larger Pacific Mountain System physiographic division."

Learn more about the Olympic National Park in Washington state.

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John from www.growingyourgreens.com shows the update of the Square Foot Condo Garden in South Florida. Using Bamboo Stakes and Nylon String Trellis to grow eggplant, tomatoes, bell peppers, georgia collards, zuchinni, vertically.

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