Garden design

Residential Landscaping Ideas for your Front Yard One of the most impactful ways to enhance the appearance of your home is to improve the curb appeal of your front yard. After all, your home’s façade is the first thing people notice when they pass by your house. You can significantly transform the look of your front yard with these residential landscaping ideas. Residential Landscaping Tips 1. Pick an interesting material to work with. Instead of the traditional cement, you can spice up the…

wood chips. Wood chips will rot away eventually, but in doing so, they enrich the soil. Rocks make good mulch too because they won't decay so they don't need to be replaced. River rocks come in neutral colors and are a beautiful addition to a flower garden. Stepping Stones If you plan to put in large flowerbeds, then you could get creative and include a walking path made of stepping stones. A walking path adds visual appeal and it also makes it easy for you to get inside the bed to tend to…

when it comes to being environmentally conscious. With so much competing information, rules and trends, it’s difficult to know where to start to create an environmentally sound space. Whether you’ve got an inner-city rooftop or expansive country gardens, there are some super easy tricks to put your mind at ease and create beautiful and sustainable landscaping solutions. PLANT SELECTION Plant Seasonal If you’re a bit of a green thumb and enjoy tending to a vegetable patch, make sure you select…

They still hadn’t talked but they had a mutual understanding. This time and many times Antonio found himself in a tomato field and his other would be under a tree or on a bench or what ever the scene called for. And Antonio would pick tomatoes under the blinding sunshine, something that was his favorite hobby. He wasn’t sure when it started, but slowly the longhaired pirate moved closer. “Antonio” A gruff voice asked. Looking up swiping the sweat from his eyes he smiled at the other. “Do you…

The community garden on campus teaches the community to care for the earth. Meanwhile, this properly teaches them new skills such as gardening, and harvesting the plants. Visiting the garden was a beautiful and delightful experience, the women who told us about the garden were extremely sweet and informative. They advised us on the best season to plant and garden specific vegetables. Gardens such as this one bring people together; likewise our garden is a calm, and happy environment for people.…

In the article "A place to Encounter Natural and Social Diversity," from Childhood in the Garden written by John Nimmo and Beth Hallett, took me in the world of gardening. "The garden is a familiar place tamed by humans to serve social purpose such as growing food," (Nimmo, & Hallett. 2008 pg32) with that concept in mind the "Growing a Green Generation" project began. The project was to engage infants through kindergarten in the natural world, and offer the opportunity to learn skills and…

In trying to plan a home garden it made me realize as to how much planning needs to go into it. One of the first steps that need to be taken is deciding how big of a garden you want as well as to how you will organize your plots. Once you have decided that the next step one should take is deciding what crops you want to grow. Depending on the crops that you choose may affect how you wish to lay out your garden. Once you know what crops you wish to grow you than need to decide how you will manage…

The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden here at UCLA provides visitors with a substantial amount of plant life. The garden contains plants from all over the world and from different environments. The presentation of this wild life gives visitors a sense of nature around the world but in deeper inspection one can see how unnatural this arrangement can be. While visiting a place like botanical gardens, one mostly is conscious of the natural processes of plants and wildlife, it is almost as one is…

but his Ville Radieuse did inspire one building. Though strict, radical and nearly totalitarian in its order and symmetry, Le Corbusier used the utopian ideal formed the basis of a number of urban plans during the 1930s and 1940s culminating in the design and construction of the first Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles in 1952. Unité d'Habitation have 337 apartments in every single building, along with open facilities on the ground floor and roof. Due to the costing of steel production after the…

different angles to let in air or light. They are ideal for both commercial and residential units. When choosing the type of windows to fix in your home, it is important to consider the climate, the expectations of the space and the architectural design of the house. Windows complement the interior decor of the house. Jalousie windows are an excellent choice for people living in hot or mild winter areas since they have enhanced ventilation. Unlike single-hung windows which in most cases open…