Now that Thanksgiving and black friday are over and the holidays are in full swing. It's time to start digging into your basement or garage for those Christmas lights and ornaments that you put away so long ago. Christmas decorations around the exterior of your home makes the holidays feel so warm and festive. Using shrubs and bushes is an wonderful way to create a colorful [Christmas display]. Here are a few tips on all the different types of shrubs and bushes that you can use to accent your outdoor Christmas decorations…Read More

We want to make sure that you Thanksgiving holiday is full of warm colors and [decorations]. As we count down to the official start of the holiday season. Here are some great tips for craft ideas you can do around your home that will create a cozy holiday atmosphere for you and yours….Read More 

When you think of Thanksgiving you usually think of family and friends coming over for huge Thanksgiving day feast. Lots of turkey and dressing,candied yams, homemade pies. Maybe a big juicy ham if your family is on the slightly larger side. Kids running around playing all types of games. Then all the guys going into the livingroom to watch all the big football games that are on television during the day.

That is what I thought of when I saw this website named Thanksgiving Point. To my suprise this website was much, more than a website to tell how long you should keep you turkey in the oven in turns out that Thanksgiving Point is a non profit institute providing hands on discovery in a variety of arts and sciences.

There are so many activies for your family and friends that i will not try to gety them all in this post. Some of the activities include golfing on a championship caliber course that is 7,728 yard long and covers more than 200 acres.

An amazing 55 acre garden designed to be a peaceful place where the gifts of nature can be appreciated. The gardens created by Utah landscape architect Leonard Grassli are motivated by a series of stunning gardens. The Creek garden, the Monet Garden, the Rose Garden, the Fragrance Garden and the Secret garden Just to name a few of the gardens available for your pleasure.

Thanksgiving Point also has a educational farm That is perfect for entertaining the kids . Entertaiment includes pony rides, wagon rides, petting areas to feed and pet the farm animals, concerts and a dinner theater to wash it all down with.

Other exhibits you can visit include the Museum of Ancient Life that has one of the largest collection of [dinosaur fossils] in the west. I'm sure this is something the boys in the family would just love to see. This may not be the type of Thanksgiving you planned for in the next couple of weeks. But it should be definatly something to keep in mind when that summer vacation roles around…Read More

 

It's the most wonderful time of the year Yes I just love the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays. Family,friends and good times are just around the corner. Preparations are well on thier way in getting ready for the upcoming holidays. Even though it may be a little to late to start a garden in time to harvest for the holidays. We have some excellent tips that will help you prepare your vegetable garden for a [Thanksgiving] day feast or your flower garden for a cool Thanksgiving display for years to come…Read More

Gardening can be a very fun and relaxing way to spend your time. Planting flowers,vegetables and herbs on a weekend that we have off from work can be very rewarding. As we all know it takes time and the love of gardening to make all the work that it takes to mold a beautiful garden worthwhile.

But what after years and years of gardening your hobby turns into a fulltime business. There is nothing better in life than to be able to enjoy the work that you do and to be able to make a living from it. This is just what happened to Beulah Hardgrove whos love for gardening has turned into what is now Grand Oak Herb Farm.

Take a look at how Beulah Hardgrove took her love of growing all types of herbs and turned it into a vehicle to teach and inspire others….Read More

 

When was the last time that you served spinach in one of your salads or for dinner for your family or friends?  Who can forget that it was not to long ago. That we had one of the biggest contamination scares in recent history with the threat of E.coli contamination of the nations spinach and leaf lettuce crops.

Sure we all new and was conditioned to be cautious about mad cow disease and the recent bird flu that if left to fester could cause and epidemic of disease worldwide. But we could not believe what we considered to be the healthiest of foods like spinach and lettuce to be bad for us. i mean what is the world coming to when you cannot even trust a simple salad to be good for you.

A recent study from Dr. Patricia Kendall, a professor at Colorado State University's Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. Says that E.coli can be introduced to a farm or garden by birds or squirrels that come into contact with manure and spread bacteria throuout the farms. From all the different sources that can produce E.coli it is also possible for contamination to show up in our irrigation water, ponds or lakes.

With all of the concern of possibly catching bacteria from puchasing leafy greens from our local grocery stores and supermarkets. Consumers are going back to thier own gardens to grow vegetables and leafy greens to control what they but on the table for family and friends.

But before you give up on your local source of leafy greens and vegetables. Dr. Luke Laborde, associate professor of food and science at Penn State. Encorages gardeners to use precausion and common sence that should be applied year round to avoid the possibility of contaminated foods….Read More 

When we first created Landscape living we wanted to inform our readers about all the different tips and information you can use to create a beautiful landscape and garden. We also wanted to make our landscape Living tips information precise and also fun to do.

Staying with our original theme we have created a new category for you to enjoy called fun landscape videos. In these videos you can expect all types humor pertaining to landscaping and gardening. As always you can also expect top of the line garden and landscape information from our videos also.

We hope you enjoy the new addition to our website fun landscape videos and continue to look to us for authority information on improving your landscape and garden.

Now that the holiday season is getting into full swing. You might want to take some of those Halloween decorations and start preparing for the big holiday feast Thanksgiving. Time sure flies by and now it's time to get ready to spend quality time with family that you have not seen for a while and friends that make the holidays so fun. Here are a few ideas that will make your Thanksgiving garden landscape bursting with holiday color…Read More