Landscaping Ideas, DIY Flower Gardening and Flowerbed Garden Ideas

Welcome to our unique Landscaping Ideas, easy DIY tips for northern flower gardening and backyard flower garden ideas.

Journey with us, Jim and Doris McComb, the Do-It-Yourself Landscaping Team and discover our creative landscape design ideas and flower garden ideas as we makeover our urban lot into a Caribbean Oasis.

Whether you are a northern climate gardener like us, or garden in a warmer climate, I am sure you will find some useful landscaping ideas and gardening tips.

Check out below for the newest additions to My Gardening and Landscaping Makeover

NEW...NEW... My New Gardening Store! Have a peek at my new gardening store. I am very excited to offer my selections from several categories. Safe purchasing. Read more...

NEW... My Best Long Blooming Perennials Discover hardy perennials that bloom longer than most. Read more...

NEW...Monarch Butterfly An amazing look at the 4 developing stages of the Monarch Butterfly. Great images from my garden. Read more...

NEW... My Beautiful Flowerbed Images For 2010 View my new gardens for the 2010 year. New images will be added as the many garden areas mature. Plants links available on this page. Read more...

NEW... Evergreen Plants (Perennials) View the Evergreen Perennials that I have planted in my flowerbed gardens. Read more...

NEW... Red Flowering Plants Ever thought of planting only red flowering plants? Read about my red flowering annuals, perennials, some shrubs and contrasting plants. Read more...

Landscaping With Rocks Discover ways to use decorative river rock, boulders and stones in your landscape design. See how to use river rock in pond landscaping. Read more...

Great Pond Landscaping Ideas Pond landscaping can be a challenge to some gardeners. Learn about perennial and annual gardening around your ponds edge? View my great pond landscaping images. Read more...

Stop Deer and Rabbits in Your Garden Want to know how to deter rabbits and deer from eating your precious flowers, trees and shrubs? Image of our Bugs Jr. Read more...

A Caribbean Oasis Our Caribbean Beach Oasis...fine white sand, glistening water and a crackling firepit. Learn how to create a Caribbean Oasis in your own backyard. Read more...

Landscaping With Berms What's a 'berm'? Use them in front yard landscaping ideas. Can be planted with groundcover, shrubs, spreading evergreens, annuals, perennials or sod. Read more...

NEW... Wooden Retaining Walls Discover how to build a wooden retaining wall. Can be used for berming, raised flower beds or vegetable gardens. Read more...

NEW... 2010 Backyard Berm We created yet another berm in our backyard landscape. This time, see how we use a wooden retaining wall to create a slope. Discover how we hide the remainder of the retaining wall. Read more...

On this page you can view all of my videos in a larger format Flower Garden Videos. Below is a sample video.

NEW... July 26, 2010: An updated summer video. This video is in 2 parts. We forgot to turn off the Scarecrow Deer Stop and the water sprayed us. Jim stopped the video, turned off the Scarecrow and we continued... Please click on the next video below to view the garden tour conclusion.

NEW VIDEO... Enjoying our swim pond. Our daughter Stacie and grandson Sebastian float on a warm summer's eve.

Other flower garden videos...

• Watch the night-time video of our backyard with the evergreens lit with twinkle lights
• Take a peek at our beach oasis with soft silky sand


• When spring comes, so do the Wood Ducks, but only for a short time. You can even hear the frogs croaking in the background.

Because of our high mosquito population, we have the citronella oil burning. Not only does this rid our backyard of the pesky blood suckers, but also gives great ambience.

NEW Video ... Take a peek at the short video below. I couldn't resist video taping my 10 Monarch Butterfly caterpillars.

... you can also link up with many other great web sites offering you additional garden landscaping ideas, garden resources and gardening supplies.

Please visit My Gardening Resources and Products Page for additional gardening links.

Take a moment and view the images of our first Gardening and Landscaping Makeover. Go to our First Garden Makeover page.

View images of the barbecue gazebo, wooden retaining wall for aboveground pools, the aboveground pool, aboveground pool landscaping ideas and images of our cedar gazebo for the 8 person hot tub. All elements built by Jim.

We hope that the garden landscaping ideas contained in this web site will help you with your current or future gardening and landscaping projects!

With a property depth of 400 feet, I am already stocking up tensor bandages and menthol rub. So, come along and join us on our gardening and landscaping makeover and please remember to share this gardening web site with your friends.

Happy Gardening Days!

Doris McComb

As the old saying goes, "Gardeners Know The Best Dirt".

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