Yard Ideas Blog
A Place in the Sun - Landscaping Around Sunrooms
Sunrooms occupy the no mans land between the indoors and outdoors and they can wreck your landscaping if you dont watch out! The room itself may be architecturally stunning and add square footage and value to your home. But, since it is tacked on to your existing house, the surrounding landscape... Read More
Give Your Garden The Blues
Blue (and shades of blue) is one of the most restful colors in the garden. Imagine fields of bluebonnets or the purple haze of lavender (another shade of blue) in bloom. You can have the same calming effect in your yard through the growing seasons by planting flowers of pure blue and shades of blue. Read More
Thought About Adding a Water Garden?
Have you been toiling over problems with soil? Have a shady region of the yard where you just cant keep plants alive? Are you enticed by the possibility of having frogs, fish, and lily pads as part of your garden? A water garden might be just what you need. Read More
YardBusters! Featured Yard: Arnold Design
One of the great things about being a YardShare member is that you get to see examples of model yards created by professional yard designers. It is fun working with graph paper and a mechanical pencil to draw up a layout the old fashioned way; but the 3D imaging software the pros use is pretty cool! Read More
Landscaping with a Living Roof
A living or green roof is becoming an eco-status symbol with corporations across the U.S. A soil and plant-based roof minimizes water runoff, reduces the urban heat island effect, and helps protect against soil erosion. Some homeowners are taking the trend residential as well. Read More
What are Potager Gardens?
I love potager gardens! What are potager gardens, you ask? A potager garden is a vegetable garden that focuses on looks as much as taste. These quaint 16th-century French-style gardens have very recently become popular, and its easy to see why. Read More
What is Mulch?
Mulching is one of the easiest and most beneficial gardening practices. Mulching can help you conserve water, prevent weed growth, and return nutrients to your soil. It can also serve as a nice landscaping tool. Read More
Blend Wheelchair Ramps Into Your Landscape Design
As the Baby Boomer generation ages, its possible that well see a shift in how residential areas are made accessible. Its not hard to imagine McMansions with wide, elaborately decorated granite wheel chair ramps. Read More
Achieve Patio Perfection On A Budget
Vonnie from Texas has the right idea when it comes to creating a private patio space that doesnt cost an arm and a leg. Planning an affordable outdoor living space requires looking beyond the initial stages and having an idea of how things can look once youve added all the embellishments. Read More
Feed the Earth! A Guide to Composting
If youve ever tried to grow a lush, productive vegetable or flower garden in your yardwhich you hoped would be the envy of your neighborsonly to have pale, lifeless plants emerge from the earth and struggle to hang on, then you may need to practice composting. Read More
About Yard Ideas
"Just another landscaping blog, right?" Wrong...sort of. The theme of the YardShare community has always been, Knocking Down Fences. So the Yard Ideas presented here are really our member's ideas, packaged into neat little articles. We use yards that the members have shared as examples of great ideas that will hopefully inspire you. Enjoy!