Don't walk on the wild side! Learn how to deal with the neglected sidewalk "hellstrip" in your landscaping scheme.
Let’s talk about sidewalk strips. You know, that slimmest sliver of dry, cracked soil between the street curb and your sidewalk. Where grass just won’t grow, no […]
Turn that space by the curb into a spot of beauty that needs little care
Increase your curb appeal by renovating your parking strip into something beautiful.
Define your garden bed with absolute finesse, putting together these budget-friendly yet beautiful garden edges.
AFFORDABLE CONCRETE CURBING HACK: Huge shoutout to @crystelmontenegrohome for this brilliant landscaping inspiration! 💡🌳 As fellow landscapers, we love being able to create new and innovative ideas...
The strip of lawn between the sidewalk and the street is often neglected, but according to guest writer Sarah Christian, can have aesthetic potential with the right design.
Here’s how to transform that sad little patch of grass between the sidewalk and street into a low-maintenance source of serious curb appeal.
Removing grass from the parking strip is often a first step to decreasing water and maintenance costs. Here is how local homeowners are doing it...
Boost your curb appeal with this affordable edging for your garden bed. This easy landscaping project can be installed in a weekend—here's how to install a simple curved brick garden border in your yard.
Parking strips are usually designed as an afterthought, or really, not designed at all. Bring that area of your yard to life with these drought resistant parking strip ideas that look good, and are low maintenance too.
Garden borders add an important landscape touch. Find 37 practical, affordable and good looking landscape garden edging ideas to compliment your lawn and landscaping to give your flower bed borders mo
Leave a 6- to 12-inch-wide mowing strip between the edge of your beds and borders and the lawn. It will help you save time and effort in the garden.
When arranged beautifully, bushes are a sophisticated approach to enhance the curb appeal of your house. These, in our opinion, are a necessary addition for anyone looking to uplift the home’s general elegance and ensure that it shines out when needed. We believe it to be a visually pleasing and simple adjustment that will look […]
I love this hell-strip planting on street with otherwise completely uninteresting front lawns. It is simply masses of violets (why do some p...
We discovered this metal landscape edging after scouring the internet for the best budget-friendly landscape border. After tons of research on different landscape edging I decided on 12" Tall Dakota Tin Corrugated Metal Garden Edging. I like it because it gives a unique look, is much more inexpensive than rock, and is relatively easy to
Don't let water use restrictions or a lack of rain put a damper on your garden dreams. Create a gorgeous, water-saving yard with these drought-tolerant landscaping ideas.
Don't walk on the wild side! Learn how to deal with the neglected sidewalk "hellstrip" in your landscaping scheme.
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Increase your curb appeal by renovating your parking strip into something beautiful.
Those small strips between sidewalks and streets are often the most challenging to plant - plants there seem to scorch, fry and die - especially in the heat of summer. These strips of land are oft
This article describes a very attractive but low maintenance planting and hardscape design for a parking strip in NE Portland. Making great access across a strip for dry, non-muddy feet is practical and provides an attractive low maintenance landscape that adds tons of curb appeal to your home. This is effectively demonstrated by my design […]
Hellstrips, better known as parking strips, are those belts of bleakness between sidewalk and street that are usually relegated to dandelion-ridden, dog-popular lawn. Evelyn J. Hadden, who also wrote "Beautiful No-Mow Yards," expands the definition to mean any hard-to-garden space next to a curb.
Clever driveway landscape design can add style and value to your home. We share our top driveway landscape design ideas for max curb appeal.
#1 Red Maple—grows well in a variety of climates and conditions, sturdy curbside tree, and of course shows off its beautiful red color in the spring and fall, it is a larger tree growing
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The city is turning our street into a bike boulevard and one thing we’ve been thinking about is how we might improve the view for cyclists. Our parking strip seemed the logical place to start since it looked so bad. (We were pretty much just mowing weeds.) My parents had …
Photography by Evelyn J. Hadden It’s easy to overlook the so-called ‘hellstrip’—that small strip of land between the sidewalk and the curb—but transforming that space into a garden can add big time curb appeal.Guest blogger and author of Hellstrip Gardening and Beautiful No-Mow Yards, Evelyn Hadden presents four ideas for waterwise plant pairs for curbside gardens. These plants are tough, easy-care, and don’t […]
Don't let water use restrictions or a lack of rain put a damper on your garden dreams. Create a gorgeous, water-saving yard with these drought-tolerant landscaping ideas.
Mow strips can be made from any solid material used to separate the lawn from a planting bed. They allow a law mower to trim the grass all the way to edge of the lawn without having to use a string trimmer. Mow strips are usually made from concrete but can also be made from pavers as seen in this photo. Photo by Doug Kalal, taken at a client's house in Carlsbad
