Choosing a Fireplace: Wood vs. Gas
Are you daydreaming about having a fire feature in your outdoor living space? You’re not alone! Over 50% of Americans have some sort of fire feature at their home, and the obsession doesn’t end there.
It’s Alive! – Planting a Living Privacy Fence
The fence is the simplest way to divide boundaries and to create privacy in your yard. The difficulty with fences, however, is that many municipalities only allow for the construction of fences that are 6 feet in height. This limits to the amount of privacy that can be achieved with just a fence. If you would like to have anything taller, there are a few simple ways in which privacy can be achieved. The best such way being, with plants!
Pass the Mustard
Seed catalogs arrive in the dead of winter and quickly become a portal into a fantasy world right when I need it. But come March, the bounty they portray starts to…
Staying ahead of your neighborhood squirrel
A bird feeder can be an amazing addition to any outdoor backyard living space, yet what do you do when the birds aren’t the ones that are feeding? Here are some tricks to keeping pesky squirrels out of your bird feeders and keep the birds off your outdoor deck furniture.
Salad Days
Long before it became a scourge upon middle class Americans wanting to masquerade as lords and princes upon their suburban estates, the dandelion was prized for its usefulness making medicine, wine, and food. In these dreary days of March, even the most fervent dandelion hater looks forward to the emergence of this adversary.
