Fundamental Aspects For Maintaining Your Lawn and Garden

It is hard to beat the feeling of a nice lush green lawn on the bottom of your feet.Whether it is for romping, strolling, or simply enjoying you own bit of green earth, the lawn is an incomparable thing to have. If you don't provide the proper care for your lawn though, how can it possibly survive? Great news~Excellent news}: Successful lawn and garden care can be executed by even the most inexperienced of wanna be gardeners. Just simply learn and follow the garden and lawn care steps below fo

The Necessary Expenses Of Being A Landlord

by Layla Vanderbilt Nobody desires to pay out money- The fact remains that being a land owner you purchased the property to earn! But here are a few pointers to spending money at the correct place which would definitely save you a lot of money in the future. Believe it or not, landscaping matters. Everyone loves having a beautiful lawn, but no one wants to actually mow it, do they? Get a few gardeners and some sprinklers and let them go to work to make your property beautiful and verdant. It

Don’t Spend Hours On Gardens Maintenance

by Frank Wainwright Many gardeners get very upset by the large amount of time spent on gardens maintenance, but they should rather work more cleverly than harder. Each season brings its own tasks and this should be done timely. Autumn leaves falling create a beautiful carpet of color and should rather be enjoyed than raked every day. Let the tree finish the drop of leaves before you take action. Instead of working leaves into bags for disposal, simply rake them into your flower beds wh

Effective Gardens Maintenance Can Save Time

by Frank WainwrightMany gardeners get very upset by the large amount of time spent on gardens maintenance, but they should rather work more cleverly than harder. Each season brings its own tasks and this should be done timely.Raking leaves in Autumn is a very good example of this, as gardeners spend days trying to get rid of all the fallen leaves. Your best option is to let the tree drop all of its leaves before you start clearing them up. Rather enjoy the beautiful carpet this scene creates. Le

How To Cultivate Your Garden

by Keith Markensen Once your plants are an inch or two high you will have another decision to make. Even the best garden soil tends to form a crust after a hard rain has beaten the air out of it and a hot sun has baked it. That crust makes it hard for the soil to drink up the next rainfall, and often forces much of that rain to run off uselessly to lower ground. To prevent this, gardeners cultivate the soil with a hoe. A “dust mulch” results, which diminishes loss of water by evaporation. Ther

Fall Chrysanthemums Good for Gardening Season

What better way to introduce September than with the beautiful photo of chrysanthemums in a fall garden. June may have its rare days but garden enjoyment is not, and should never be, a one-season affair, as photos prove. Fall is as good a gardening season as any, both to appreciate what past labors have accomplished and to actively prepare for future seasons. Weatherwise it is just about ideal for both gardeners and their plants, with cool mornings and evenings and comfortably warm mid-days

KNEELER

KNEELER

Use as a kneeler with grip bars to help you get up, or flip over for a garden bench. Both sides are cushioned with comfortable, non-absorbent, poly foam pads. Sturdy steel construction with high impact corner protectors for long life. 300 lb. weight capacity. Folds flat for easy storage. Spring action legs lock securely into place. 21.551W x 10.551D x 16.551H. Weighs only 7.2 lbs.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Kneeler
I find this kneeler perfect for gardening especially if you have a bad back. I put all my pressure on the handles to pull my self up. Therefore I feel no pain in my back, legs or knees.

I love it.

I thought my gardening days were over because after kneeling on the dirt I could not get up. (Just like the commercial). Now I can.

Diana CipolloneGarden Kneeler Bench

5 Stars 2 words
It works! It fills my need in the garden. The price is right, it’s comfortable, it’s sturdy and simple to use.

5 Stars garden stool
Wonderful. We have found many other used for the bench. Great for painting along mop boards. It is portable and can be carried anywhere. Even to clean the kitchen floor.

5 Stars Great for the ‘mature’ gardener!
We purchased this for my 90 year young uncle, who still gardens and tends his flower beds. It’s great for those of us who can still get down, but have difficulty ‘getting up’. The Kneeler is sturdy, safe, and light-weight, and is perfect for us ‘mature’ gardeners. The smooth metal ‘handles’ are at the right ergonomic height for the arms to help lift the body back to a standing position without falling over on your nose. The seat is just right for resting from a morning’s planting or weed-pulling. Highly recommended.

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The ABCs of Pruning DVD

The ABCs of Pruning DVD

The ABC’s of Pruning is a must for every homeowner with a lawn, garden or other landscaping. With simple time-saving techniques, Landscape Designer Hugh Perry takes the mystique out of pruning. Here is all the information you need to beautify and protect your landscape investment. In just 30 engaging minutes, Hugh demonstrates how to trim trees, thin shrubs, salvage overgrown landscapes and more.

Hugh Perry is a nationally-recognized Landscape Designer with over 28 years of experience. He has landscaped thousands of homes and has appeared on HGTV. In The ABC’s of Pruning, Hugh’s tips and his thorough knowledge of plants will become an essential part of your home and gardening life.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great Technical Information Made Easy
This information is something every gardener could use. I learned the right way to prune plants that I’ve pruned incorrectly for years. Mr. Perry makes his techniques very easy to understand. This guy obviously knows his stuff.

Kevin Ganley

5 Stars Wonderful easy-to-follow pruning guide for gardeners of every level.
From novice to master…gardeners everywhere will benefit from Hugh’s common sense teaching video. It’s the perfect aide for homeowners and professionals alike.

As a landscape designer, I want to educate my clients on the value of proper pruning, but this can take hours! What better tool to have on hand? I can’t think of one. Too often I have visited beautifully designed landscapes that were reduced to mediocrity through the lack of basic pruning skills.

Learn to extend the lifetime and beauty of your landscape. Hugh’s friendly, down-to-earth guidelines really do make it as easy as ABC!

5 Stars Fantastic-Easy to follow-Narrated with Whit,Style and Education
I’ve been in the horticultural industry for 15 years and found this to be a must have for homeowners and beginning professionals! Simple to follow,logical and creatively done. I hope to give it out to some clients.

Great tool for foreman and workers in the Green industry.

5 Stars A must have !!!!!
This DVD was inspiring and compelling: exceeded my expectations!! I began to prune my own shrubs (for the first time) after watching this DVD.

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Western Landscaping Book Companion to the Best Selling Western Garden Book

Western Landscaping Book Companion to the Best Selling Western Garden Book

This all-new second edition, the companion book to the much beloved Western Garden Book, promises to be just as successful as the first. Packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, it addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges

Landscaping for Dummies

Landscaping for Dummies

This guide is intended as a basic reference for those who want to improve their landscape. Beginning with a Wish List, the authors help gardeners achieve the yard of their dreams. Each step of the process is explained: designing a layout, building “hardscape” (paths, fences, arbors), selecting plants and trees, choosing a contractor or deciding to do the work yourself. Icons are used to point out important information. Many illustrations, checklists, a hardiness zone table, plant lists, lists of mail-order suppliers, 16 professional landscape designs, recommended readings, and online resources provide inspiration. The tone of the book is upbeat and humorous. Recommended for public libraries. (Color photographs not seen.)ANancy Lee Myers, Univ. of South Dakota Lib., Vermillion
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great for the price.
This book will give you a basic understanding on what and where to place plants and flowers as well as an idea what is the best grass for the kind of weather in your area. It breaks things down to plain english and provides step by step procedures on landscaping.

1 Star I’m a Dummie for buying this book
Did not tell me what I needed to know to pick plants for my yard. I found most of what I needed in Sunset’s Western Garden Book (I’m in the western US).

4 Stars Very nice starting point for a broad subject. Great bibliography
`Landscaping for Dummies’ by Philip Giroux, Bob Beckstrom, Lance Walheim and a cast of thousands is a typically ironic example of what you will find in this huge `Dummies’ series of books, which started out as a series of texts for PC subjects, where the PC had a knack of making us all feel like dummies. Since then, it has expanded to touch virtually every `practical’ subject in the known universe. That is, I haven’t seen any `Wittgenstein for Dummies’ or `Quantum Thermodynamics for Dummies’, as neither of these subjects are things the average intelligent, but uninformed person is likely to pick up to brief themselves for a weekend project of as a start to a new hobby.

The irony of this particular volume is that you really can’t make full use of it if you don’t have a good head on your shoulders and a fair amount of book learning under your belt, including such arcane High School subjects such as geometry and some building skills such as working with mortar, power saws, a level, and a full-sized shovel.

The first thing you discover is that landscaping is a really big subject. You probably didn’t know this, or you would not be considering buying this book. In four `parts’, the book breaks the subject down into Designing, Hardscaping, Planting, Planning, and Tips for putting Landscaping to good use. Since this book (and all books in this series) advertises itself as `A Reference for the Rest of Us’, I can’t complain too much about the odd order of these five subjects, but it does seem that `Objectives’ and `Planning’ should be Parts I and II respectively, rather than Parts V and IV. I confess that I even bought the book exclusively for its Hardscaping chapter, so I didn’t care if that came before or after planning.

Regarding the Hardscaping material, I found it remarkably advanced for a `dummy’. The projects start with simple walkways, but quickly advance to retaining walls, brick walls, and fences. My biggest surprise was the depth to which one must build deep planning into so simple a job as a retaining wall that is installed to square off an annoying slope in your yard. Not only do you have to lay a deep foundation, you also need to worry about drainage and install a special drainage pipe to carry off rainwater. Who Knew!!!

In other Parts of the book, it devotes relatively short chapters to subjects to which one could easily dedicate a whole book. One example is in the selection of a tree or trees to plant in your landscaping project. I looked at the description for Japanese maple (since I happen to have one of these) and found the entry reasonable, but possibly not as detailed as one may want, since it glossed over the fact that the difference in growing speed and average height of the different varieties of Acer Palmatum are sizable, and one will be disappointed if they get the tall lanky variety, when they wanted the low, burly `weeping’ variety.

But, if what you want is a first book on the subject, you could really do a lot worse. It has the one essential ingredient for an introductory book, a comprehensive bibliography, which includes not only books, but lots of magazines, professional organizations, and international web sites for getting more information.

I rarely resort to books in this series, but for those of you who want to venture into do it yourself landscaping, this is probably better, and possibly far better than, for example, the `Home Depot’ manual on the subject.

4 Stars Okay for the basic landscaper
I’ve been working in commercial landscaping off and on for nearly four years now. I borrowed this book from a friend just to check it out. I think if you are a new homeowner and don’t have much experience in landscaping then this book will probably work. If you are familiar with planting tree’s and shrubs, bricklaying, fencing, and bordering, then maybe you should try and find something a little more advance. I suppose it depends on how big the project is you are working on.

3 Stars Landscaping For Dummies
A very informative tome, but I think its tries to achieve too much in what is a rather large and varied subject. Should focus on the basics………….but to be fair still an excellent guide

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