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Thank you for visiting Landscape Living were you will have access to an abundance of information to help you create a beautiful outdoor living area for your home. Landscaping is the practice of arranging flowers, plants, trees and garden accessories in an ornamental landscape for your outdoor living area.Landscaping your Home

We all have done some type of landscaping at one time or another. Going out on a Saturday morning to mow the lawn. Picking out just the right area in your backyard so your vegetable garden will have the most sunlight during the day. Staining your backyard deck to protect it from the wear and tear of the outside elements. Choosing just the right type of plants to accent those shady areas around your home. Making sure you have the correct tools and equipment to complete your projects.

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Doing landscape projects around your home can be a fun and very rewarding experience. Some people putter around the garden to relax and release the tension of a stressful day. Others may choose to do landscape projects around the home to get their daily excercise. Then others may choose to landscape their front or back yards to improve the property value of their home.

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As we approach the official start of the summer season by celebrating Memorial Day this weekend. Many of us will be visiting family and friends enjoying ourselves with outdoor activities such as outdoor picnics, barbecues and most importantly recognizing are U.S. men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice by serving our country through military service.

Then there will be some of us who will be using that extra long weekend to get in some serious gardening time planting flowers and vegetables for the the summer gardening season. 

May 15th to May 31st is the perfect time to plant many vegetables including tomatoes for the summer season ahead. One of my favorite types of tomatoes to plant are heirloom tomatoes. They may take a little more attention to grow than your regular hybrid tomato plant but what is so enticing is the many beautiful colors and shapes that the many varieties of heirloom tomatoes have to offer. Not to mention the full rich taste that you get from heirloom tomatoes when using them in a recipe or making a salad.

What I intend to do this weekend and you may want to do also is to go to your local garden nursery and pick out a few heirloom tomato plants such as brandywine's or sweet tangerines and add them to your vegetable garden for some brilliant color and good eats. Also take a look at our latest article on how to grow heirloom tomatoes.

Enjoy Your Holiday Weekend

This year has been pretty rough on the consumers pocket. With the cost of food and energy going up at blinding speeds who can keep up and is there an end in sight to relieve us of ongoing inflation costs?

Well the end of high food prices and energy might not be in the near future but there are some things that you can do around your home and landscape to help reduce energy costs through the summer and winter months. Proper landscaping practices are the key to reducing those high energy costs. Take a look at a few tips from Deb Babcock on how she recommends you cut into those high energy bills by doing proper landscaping around your home and garden.

If you enjoy gardening then you know one of the aesthetic benefits of planting and working the land are all the little creatures that come to enjoy the labor of your hard work. Butterflies are one of the beautiful creatures that like to come and observe all the pretty plants that you have added to your garden landscape.

Adding plants that attract butterflies to your garden such as daylilies, marigold and daisies can make your garden a butterfly paradise. Watching butterflies dance from plant to plant on a hot sunny lazy day is one of my joys of summer and you can enjoy butterflies also with a few tips that we have to help you create your own butterfly garden to enjoy. 

Here is a cool way of using part of your lawn to create an Eco-friendly rain garden. Not only will you be helping the environment and saving money by using rain water to keep your lawn green. In some places across the country you will also be able to receive as much as a $5000 reimbursement payment for investing to built one of these Eco-friendly rain gardens….Read More

Lets face it, we all love to watch and admire a colorful flower garden or tend are vegetables till they are plump and ripe ready for the picking. But tending a flower or vegetable garden can be a lot of back breaking work. Watering and mulching, fertilizing and weeding can turn the most hardworking person into wornout gardener.

Gardening for the lazy gardener does not mean the person creating the garden is lazy. It does mean that the lazy gardener wants to work smarter instead of harder. Many people who simply love to garden can not perform the tasks of digging, shoveling, bending, weeding, and other physical tasks.

So we have but together some smarter not harder garden tips that you may be able to use in your own backyard to make you're gardening chores a little more easier on those bones of yours….read more

Mother's Day is just right around the corner and what a wonderful gift to give your mother or favorite mother in law than something she can use to putter around the garden with. The people over at goodyblog.com are giving away a Katie Brown Gardening Kit for their Mother's day Giveaway Contest.

If you are not familiar with Katie Brown she is starting her second season on American public television as the host of the Katie Brown Workshop where she gives inexpensive cooking, gardening and decorating ideas with an appealing and imaginative approach to the home arts.

Some of the prizes that they are offering consists of Halter Garden aprons, Cast Aluminum Precision Garden Weeder or even Handheld Bug zapper that should come in handy for getting rid of those pesky little critters.

To enter to win, just post a comment on their blog before midnight Eastern Standard Time on Friday May 9th. Good luck and Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mothers out there around the world.