Landscaping Ideas & Garden Aesthetic Ideas

10 Full Sun Perennials for Low-Maintenance Container Gardens (Lazy Gardener Edition) Picture, if you will, an outdoor space so tackily flashy it’s literally yelling, “I woke up like this!”—without you ever even sweating, well, hardly at all. The rest of us, naturally, are left with the fantasy of a beautiful, “I’ve-got-my-shit-together” garden racing off with […]

Gravel Isn’t Just Groundcover—It’s a Design Tool (Here’s How to Use It Right) The majority of folks out there view gravel as the catch-all fill-space. What you just kinda just slap in between pavers or under a bench ’cause it’s “easy” and you won’t lose your mind if you happened to forget to water it.

How Smart Placement and Layout Make a Greenhouse Feel Like Home There’s simply, so, homey about opening the door to a greenhouse that is simply so. We’re not talking so much ‘super-duper spiffy showroom’ and so much ‘soothingly comforting and quietly lush refuge.’ And the great secret? It’s not always necessarily always all about that

The Golden Ratio and Front Yard Design: A Foolproof Layout Trick That Works Every Time Ever walked down past a front lawn and said to yourself, “Now that’s a vibe,” even though you couldn’t quite place why? We’re guessing our last dollar it wasn’t chance. We’re guessing it was deliberate with a secret ingredient: proportion.

How a Humble Heuchera Can Redefine Your Front Yard Other days, the little giants lead the way. For real, who would have thought Heuchera, or your name of the day, hipster flower, Coral Bells, is the sneakiest stuff you can plant in your front yard? Possibly us, apparently. The point is, these on-the-down-low little green

Why Your Mud Kitchen Should Reflect Your Home’s Design Style A mud kitchen? Oh, it is so much, so very much more than the squalid little contraption in which children are allowed to get inexcusably filthy. No, no, no. Imagine it because it’s so like one big extension of your wonderfully designed home, a itsy

How to Style Outdoor Planter Boxes Like a Pro Landscaper Let’s get one thing straight—planter boxes aren’t just glorified dirt coffins. They’re the unsung heroes of our outdoor spaces, quietly judging our design choices from afar. Whether we’re battling a sprawling backyard that thinks it’s Versailles or a sad little apartment balcony doing its best

How to Create a Backyard That Feels Like a World of Its Own Today, on today’s blog, we’re only going to share a single law of landscaping with you. Yes, just one.. (And before we dive in, a huge thank you for all the love on this topic! This post has been one of the

How Ornamental Grasses Can Redefine Your Landscape Aesthetic Why, for some reason beyond my comprehension, garden sweethearts like these lovely grasses were lopped off to execrably flat, soul-sucking bulk of “filler” heinous and piled on top. Look, behold what I’m saying here—it’s pleasant, harmless fuff we must stuff between the garden’s true stars. But that

The Secrets Landscape Designers Use to Make Grass-Free Front Yards Look Lush Somehow, the lawn became a symbol of pride. A big, green, thirsty carpet—because that screams sustainability, right? We’ve been sold this idea that “lush” equals “lawn.” But honestly, grass is kind of the default setting. Not a design choice. And certainly not the