Steve Boulden

Landscaping Fabrics - How To Install Landscaping Fabric

When using landscaping fabric, preparing the project grounds is just as important as the quality of materials you use. While a lot of people will lay weed barrier directly over existing or barely prepared area, the best performance and longest lasting res... Read >

Plant Cuttings, Propagation Basics Of Taking Cuttings

While propagating and taking cuttings for new plants isn't generally involved in any new landscaping projects, it is sometimes a question from clients with existing gardens and landscapes. Most times it's to duplicate an exact plant, expand mass planting... Read >

Rose Pruning For Fall And Winter Color

Roses work great for a lot of different landscaping applications. In mass groups, single displays, climbers, and in many other ways, they can add a touch of class to the garden that only roses can. If you plan on planting some, it's important to keep in m... Read >

Naturally Sterilizing Garden Soils With Solar

Most garden soils and especially organically created garden soil will never need the extremity of sterilization. However, in some instances such as nematode infestation, it may be desirable to completely sterilize the soil. The major drawback to this, whe... Read >

Do It Yourself Landscape Ideas

Landscape design, sometimes, can be as basic as drawing a couple squares and cirlces and throwing in a couple shrubs. Oftentimes, on the other hand, plans don't turn out to be this uninvolved. The unexperienced person can find out that trying to piece tog... Read >

Front Yard Landscaping - Foundation Planting Tips

When choosing and setting out plants in the front yard or any landscaping for that matter, you need to consider more than just how things will look. You should also consider other factors such as sun or shade, duration of sun or shade, soil type, purpose,... Read >

Front Yard Landscaping Lessons - Driveway Access Ideas

To create inviting, attractive, and easy entryway to your home and property, functionality of the landscape should be your first concern. Plants and other elements should be secondary concerns. And since the main function of front yard landscaping is gene... Read >

Designing Your Landscape With Simplicity

Using the principle of simplicity in landscape design is one of the main guidelines you should follow when you start thinking of your design. Most homeowners don't realize that simplicity is actually a principle. It's not only a principle of landscape des... Read >

Career Testing - Guidelines For Taking Career Tests

Career testing has become a very popular way of "discovering ourselves" and our abilities. However, many people tend to accept their test results as the absolute gospel truth about themselves and their occupations. This in a way can be a very dangerous... Read >

Writing Great Articles? I'm No Expert, But.....

Just like most of you reading this article, I'm far from calling myself an expert author. However, I have been out here a while, submitted quite a few articles, and have definitely learned a few hard lessons about getting my articles noticed. First, I'... Read >

Pictures Of Landscaping - Using Other Peoples Ideas To Design Your Landscape.

One of the most common searches on my site is for pictures of landscaping. So I know that a lot of folks rely on photos of other peoples designs to get ideas. But at the same time, while I do have a large picture directory of other peoples projects on my ... Read >

Discovering Your True Calling In Life

Ultimately, your true calling in life would be to: A) do something that you love to do, or B) do something that you're good at. And if you're lucky, it would involve both of these. Now that sounds simple enough, doesn't it? So why the endless, g... Read >

Do It Yourself Landscape Design - Where To Begin

There's an old saying that states something like - "Getting Started Is Half Finished". And so many times I find this to be true as I see do it yourself landscapers struggle to find their initial design idea. However, once they establish a framework of nec... Read >