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How to Budget a Landscape Design Renovation

Garden with pool and clipped boxwood hedges, with olive trees

My Landscape Mood Board & Planning Process

Verbena grows in a natural-looking meadow garden.

Garden Design Ideas for a Beautiful, Low-Maintenance Landscape

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No-Sew Baby Sock Christmas Ornament [5 Minute Holiday DIY]

Don’t donate those baby socks just yet - hang on to a couple of them! You know, the ones they wore when they came home from the hospital that fit perfectly, but then they outgrew in a hot minute.

Take 5 minutes to make them into what will become your most cherished Christmas ornaments in years to come.

Best pomegranate varieties to grow in your garden & pots (Plus how to prune, water and fertilize)

Pomegranate (Punica granatum), one of the most ancient fruit crops still grown today, has been cultivated for several millennia. Some scholars believe it was the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Found the tomb of Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut’s butler Djehuty, (even her butler got his own tomb!) and referenced several times in the Bible, it was one of the first fruit crops to be domesticated in the Middle East and Mediterranean.

How To Winterize Your Yard & Garden

If you’ve worked hard making a beautiful garden during the warm months, the last thing you want to do is see all your hard green-thumb work come undone during winter’s cold months. Taking steps to prepare your landscape with a fall gardening cleanup will go a long ways to protect your yard from winter weather so your can enjoy it when it's cold and prep it for successful spring growing season.