Landscaping

Tips for Designing a Backyard Pond :: Building a Luxury Landscape

When designing a backyard pond your goal should be to create a pond that looks like it has always existed in the landscape; incorporating natural, flowing lines with a variety of rock...

by Jennifer Zuri

Keys to Green Grass in Spring :: How to Prep a Lawn for Winter

The type of care your lawn requires will depend greatly on where you live. In Florida, you may very well continue to mow your lawn throughout the year, but in Minnesota, your...

by Alex Wayne

paint montage featuring Clark + Kensington via Canton Ace Hardware

Four (Now That the Kids Are) Back to School Fall Project Ideas :: Organize, Paint & Prep for Winter

Shhhh. Hear that? It’s quiet right? That’s the sound of the kids back at school. Playtime is over and it’s nose to grindstone for everyone. Happily, the heat is slowly releasing its...

by Rachel Machacek

Pennington Seed Smart Seed Sitting on a Prepped Lawn

Seeding a New Lawn :: My Own Personal Growth

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This front yard, when the home was purchased, had a rather medium-sized and unruly tree smack dab in the middle of it. In an effort to make the home more curb-appealing, Mrs....

by jb bartkowiak

Six Strategies for Small Yard Landscaping :: Plan, Plant & Stay Open

Limited outdoor space doesn’t have to limit your outdoor enjoyment. With a little planning and some creative small-backyard landscaping ideas, you can transform your space into a relaxing, functional oasis that pleases...

by Nathan David

Building Moxie is Growing Grass with Pennington Smart Seed :: Experiment & Results

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My results it seems are pretty consistent with those that I got in our trial, our growing experiment while in Oregon with Pennington Seed. But as I ramp up to essentially seed...

by jb bartkowiak

Stone Border Edging Installed 1 Step Complete Installed

Installing Stone Border Edging for a Garden & Patching Grass with a Lawn Repair Product

Make-Maintain-Fix

Now, it would have been lovely not to have disturbed the grass’s edge while installing this border. But of course that was not happening. I needed soil both behind and in front...

by jb bartkowiak

Learning How to Landscape :: Like Building But with Plants

Much like a wall in a home can provide partition, and in some cases, it can be bearing. It always includes such things as plumbing or electrical, and it is contained by...

by jb bartkowiak

Pennington One Step Complete :: An Experiment & Results

In the NeighborHood

But just as Barry was dotting the t's for his trip to Genie Company HQ, I received an update on a growing experiment I participated in while visiting Pennington Grass Seed in...

by jb bartkowiak

5 Cost Effective Home Security Ideas :: But the Best Security Tips are Free

Each of these security items are cost effective and easy to use and install. They also offer the added, and perhaps most important, bonus of letting outsiders know that your home is...

by Madison Parker

Lawn Care Tips from Pennington Seed :: The Seeds of Knowledge

As I think about all the information we gleaned from the experts at Pennington Seed, the single best tip I can offer you for successfully growing grass this Spring is -- “Know...

by jb bartkowiak

Little Girl With Potted Plant Green Lawn

The Ten Essential Garden Tools :: What Every Gardener Needs in their Tool Shed

One could say when it comes to landscape improvements, a gloved gardener, armed with the right trowels and pruners, feels a surge of energy about their favorite tools. Roll up your sleeves...

by Nicole Wisniewski