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LANDSCAPE AND GARDENING IDEAS
If you have only just decided to landscape your property, it probably looks like you have a pretty big job ahead of you. It will seem less intimidating if you begin with some landscaping and gardening ideas. That means you have to go outside and plan things out.
The first of the landscape and gardening ideas is to do a site analysis. Look over your property and list what are its strengths and weaknesses. What do you like about your property? What do you not like? How can you correct or improve the things you dont like? If you begin this way with your landscape and gardening, ideas will come to you.
Now make a sketch of your property. Make the sketch large enough for you to stay as close to scale as possible. Be sure to include your house and any other buildings, including details like doors and windows. Also include trees and any other plants you want to incorporate into your landscape and gardening ideas. Be sure to mark the compass points.
Walk around your property at different times of day with your sketch on a clipboard and mark which areas are sunny and shady at given times. This will help you when it comes time to decide what plants should go where. It will also be useful if you are going to plant shade trees. You might also want to make note of prevailing winds in case you should want to build or plant a windbreak.
Good landscape and gardening ideas will come to you if you observe your property from a variety of vantage points and make notes of the good views and the bad views. Can neighbours see into your yard? If you build a raised deck will you be able to see into your neighbours yard?
Now make notes on slope and drainage. Do you have high ground you can take advantage of? Is there a low spot where water pools? Whatever design you decide on, it is important that water drains away from your house, not toward it. A good idea is to go outside during a rainstorm and see which way the water runs.
Take note of any interesting features your property might have: rocks, proximity to a stream or other body of water, or a special view of a natural feature or a dramatic urban skyline. How can you best work them into your design?
Go inside your house and note what you can see from various windows. What aspects of your landscape and garden would you like to see from your kitchen, bedroom or living room?
Now that you have done your sketch and made your notes, you will have some good landscape and gardening ideas.

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(Family Features) - The outdoor gardening season has ended in much of the country.

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London, Nov 19 (ANI): An archaeology student has found remains of a pot dating back to the Roman era, in the garden of his home in the Holme-on-Spalding Moor area of Yorkshire, England. Apart from finding the ancient pot, Chris Bevan, the student, also found some medieval green glaze pottery in the garden. "I bought the house in July and was just doing some gardening when I found a Roman …

“Birds In Fall” novelist Brad Kessler, who won a pair of literary prizes last month, is increasingly finding inspiration on the 75-acre farm where he lives with his wife, gardening, raising goats and making cheese.

As winter approaches, the drying stalks of snakeroot, black-eyed Susans and coneflowers serve a buffet of tasty snacks to birds visiting Colleen Traylor’s yard.

As many gardeners have discovered gardening is a great way to develop an interest in bird watching and bird feeding.

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Now is not the time to stop thinking about gardening. As Suzy Bales points out with her book “The Garden in Winter” (Rodale, $34.95), a beautiful garden knows no seasons. Subtitled “Plant for Beauty in the Quiet Season,” the book features tons of photos showing just what’s possible in the winter garden landscape.

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Tools, Bulbs, Supplies: Gardening Fall To Do List
Fall is a time of harvest as well as a time of planning for next year. In
the whirlwind of fall gardening one is optimally buying tools, bulbs,
supplies, gardening material for the winter and following year.
Tools
If you don’t have the appropriate tools, leaf cleanup can be a hassle. Leaf
blowers make the job an easy task. If the noise bothers you, you can always
go back to engaging the kids in a raking party out back. The leaves
themselves make wonderful compost and can be added to the compost pile to
rot throughout the winter. If you don’t have a compost bin, fall is a good
time to buy one. There are a variety of bins from wood boxes to round
barrels that are easily rotated.
Bulbs
Some tender bulbs will need to be lifted from the garden and stored away
from a hard frost. Other bulbs should optimally be planted in the fall to
give them a winter season to help them go dormant. So, whether you’re
digging up bulbs or planting them, odds are you are doing that during the
fall season. Tools, bulbs, supplies, gardening shopping for fall can be
overwhelming if not properly planned out. If you have bulbs that need to be
lifted, do that first. If you need bulbs planted there are special tools
that can make the job go quicker.
General Supplies
Now may also be time to prepare the lawn for the following season.
Fertilizers with weed killers may be broadcast on the lawn to help it endure
the cold and inhibit sprint weed growth the following year. Some people even
like to seed the next year’s lawn in the fall. Along with tools, bulbs,
supplies, gardening plants, include some lawn care products.
Garden Maintenance
After the appropriate tools, bulbs, supplies, gardening materials have been
bought, the gardener will need to go around and trim all the dead plant
material. If left on the plant, it can promote plant diseases. Mulches will
need to be bought for fall gardening materials to prepare the beds for the
following spring and to retain moisture in a dry winter. Once everything is
done, one has to maintain the tools by cleaning, sanding or oiling them
before putting them away in a shed for safekeeping.
Buying tools, bulbs, supplies, gardening materials is a frantic race with
time and Mother Nature during the fall season. But, with a little bit of
planning and knowing what the general needs of the garden are, one can go
about it in an orderly and calm fashion.

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