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How to Involve Your Child in the Garden

Taking your children to the garden is a great way to spend quality time with them while diverting their attention from the attraction of the indoors (video games and TVs). It is a healthy way to spend time outdoors while also providing knowledge and life skills.
Here are four ways you can include your child in garden activities:
Purchase garden accessories and seeds for kids
While buying your child a game console, save some money to purchase kid-sized rakes, vegetable and flower seeds, brooms, watering cans, or shovels. Nothing excites a child more than a toy, and a garden toy will surely encourage the child to tag …

6 Solar Landscape Lighting Ideas That Are a Must Try

Solar lighting is increasingly gaining popularity as most homeowners look for an affordable and accessible solution to light their properties. Most homeowners also rely on solar lighting to illuminate their landscape and add to the curb appeal of their properties.
Unlike traditional lights, outdoor solar lights come with numerous benefits energy-saving, cost-effective, weather-resistant, and easy to set up. Plus, they only need the sun to operate, which can help you save on high electricity bills. This is quite helpful, considering it was projected that electricity would increase by 2.8% between 2020 and 2021.
Wondering how …

The Best Pet-friendly Landscaping Tips

Today almost every home has a pet, mostly dogs and cats. However, these pets might not understand what is wrong and what is right. They run around destroying the yard, digging up holes, and damaging flowers.
Because of these, it has become essential to create pet-friendly yards that provide beautiful spaces protected from destruction by the pets.
Here is how to create a pet-friendly landscape:

Use gentle hardscapes

Hardscaping is the use of solid objects such as gravel, stone, and paving in landscaping. Hardscaping provides spaces where pets can sharpen their digging skills without …

The Magical Plants Many Didn’t Know Exist

There is a magical plant invented by Roman Emperor Augustus’ friend many people do not know about. However, over the years, these plants known as the topiary has become popular in many yards around the world.
The Discovery of topiary plants led to the birth of tree masonry, which is simply the pruning and shaping of trees. In the 18th century, tree masonry was practiced in England and the Netherlands as an alternative to the expensive stonework.
Since then, topiaries have become popular additions to many property gardens and yards around the world.
Types of Topiaries
Popular topiaries used in tree masonry …