Easy backyard landscaping ideas have the power to transform your outside space and are a manageable way to embark on a full scale, backyard makeover. From following simple border planting rules or ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Your house is in a prime location, you’ve updated the interior to boost its value, and you’ve repainted ...

Terraced Hillside Landscaping Nobody enjoys wrestling with a steep lawn. Transform this hillside with terraced planting beds along rough stone stairs rather than turf grass. For year-round texture and ...

The builder's bit of lawn, two trees, and few foundation shrubs fall far short of most homeowners' dream landscape. To set your yard apart, invest in streetscaping to add to your home's current and ...

At the Jackson Street Reconstruction in St. Paul, bumpy paving signals to people with low vision that they’re about to cross a road or bike lane. There’s a middle island between a bike path and car ...

Early humans instinctively knew what kind of landscape they liked, one with a dense stand of trees and shrubs, so they could see without being seen. The view was out across open grasslands, so prey ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Landscaping can turn your compound into a serene place regardless of the environment. Contrary to popular belief ...

Two years ago in the Netherlands, artist Paul de Kort designed an 81-acre park near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. His assignment? To use nothing but landscaping to dampen the noise of airplanes. Such ...