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Easy Landscape Design Ideas, Flower Garden Ideas and Great Gardening Advice and Tips


Welcome to our unique Landscape Design Ideas, flower garden ideas and easy 'do it yourself' landscaping. Discover our creative backyard pond designs, including our 10ft. high limestone waterfall and lush pond landscaping.

Why not journey with us, Jim and Doris McComb, the Do-It-Yourself Landscaping Team, as we share our Landscape Design Ideas, Flower Garden Ideas, Great Gardening Advice and Tips For All Do It Yourself Gardeners.



Get Great Gardening Tips and Advice

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Helpful gardening advice, ideas and tips for Everyday Gardeners...get rid of wasps (great recipe), slugs and a great fungicide recipe. Do you add pickle juice to your compost? Read more...





Discover Our Garden Design Methods

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Discover a trick on how to outline your own flowerbed gardens,(without dragging out your garden hose). Discover our way of garden designing, how we outline our flowerbed gardens and get some clever landscaping ideas and tips. Read more...




Using Stones and Boulders For Your Garden Landscaping

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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 and Images

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Pond landscaping can be a challenge to some gardeners. Do I plant tall or short? Annuals, perennials or shrubs? Learn about perennial and annual gardening around your ponds edge? View my great pond landscaping images. Read more...




Stop Rabbits and Deer From Eating Your Garden

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Want to know how to deter rabbits and deer? Chances are if you live on the outskirts of a city you have critters like rabbits and deer munching on your trees, shrubs and plants. I know we do...and plenty of them. Read more...




Discover Our Caribbean Beach Oasis in the City

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Our Caribbean Beach Oasis...fine white sand, glistening water and a crackling firepitView our backyard pond designs and images. Watch our pond videos and learn how to create a Caribbean Oasis in your own backyard, including building a pond, waterfalls and a sand beach. Read more...




Discover My Plant Selection Process

flowerbed landscaping

Discover my plant selection process for my flowerbed gardens. What color scheme do I want? What about flowerbed schemes? What colors should I choose? Read more...





Learn The Importance of Garden Soil Amending

flowerbed landscaping

Learn the importance of garden soil amending, flowerbed mulch and using a soil-less garden mix for containers. Find ways to know and amend your garden soil. Feed the soil, not the plants. Plants need to eat a healthy, balanced diet...and it all starts with the garden soil. Read more...




Creating Berms in Your Landscape Design

flowerbed landscaping

What's a 'berm'? A berm is a formed earth mound. Sometimes called a knoll, these hilly mounds can be planted with groundcover, shrubs, spreading evergreens, annuals, perennials or sod. Read more...





Discover My Flower Garden Video Page

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

September 16, 2009 Updated Flower Garden Video. See how my perennials, annuals and garden shrubs change with the season.



Other flower garden videos...

Watch the night-time video of our backyard with the evergreens lit with twinkle lights. Video taken July 1, 2009.

Why not view our beach oasis...video taken July 1, 2009.

Ducks Video June 25, 2009. Check out the ducks in our pond. You can even hear the frogs croaking in the background.


...and so much more! Check them out here... Garden Videos.

Take a moment and view my Flowerbed Pictures.

Enjoy viewing my Pond Images.




As you navigate through my site of Garden Landscaping Ideas...

... 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.

Happy Gardening Days!

Doris McComb

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




Related pages to visit:

  • Using Natural or Synthetic Fertilizers
  • Garden Accessories Page
  • Garden Videos Page
  • Flowerbed Pictures Page
  • Gardening Tips
  • Plants For Sun
  • Plants For Shade




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