Learn about landscape plant hardiness zones to help you select trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and annuals for your outdoor spaces as you page through plant books and plant catalogs. What is Plant Hardiness? The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the developing agency of the hardiness map. Basically, the hardiness of a plant refers […]
Every landscape plant has lots of unique features. Make a chart to organize the information for a quick reference for a landscape project, because there is a lot of information available on each plant regarding its characteristics, flower color, attributes, problems, and so on. There are literally thousands of different plants worldwide that the plant […]
Are you looking for an outdoor landscape light for shorter (4’ or less) walls and masonry columns where ground level uplighting won’t work because of location? Usually, the type of light fixtures that are used to accent walls are installed at ground level and directed upward toward the wall. These types of light fixtures work […]
Woodpeckers seem to love the parts of a house that are built or covered with cedar, like cedar beams and cedar siding. It’s too bad because cedar is really a beautiful building material. Maybe it’s because cedar is a soft wood and it’s easier to drill into. Woodpeckers will drill into the wood on houses […]
