Edging flower beds with well-defined lines immediately improves the look of a backyard. But its benefits go beyond the aesthetics – edging is practical, too. Whether you're digging a simple shallow ...

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While you can opt to painstakingly maintain the edging of your flower bed by hand or with a string trimmer, a physical ...

Flower beds and borders make for a good part of many residential gardens. Unfortunately many are not given the kind of forethought and attention that they deserve. Whether you are creating a flower ...

Manual removal of grass from flower beds is best done after a rain. Mulching, groundcovers, and edging prevent grass from growing in flower beds. Treat annual grass weeds with pre-emergent herbicides ...

As spring approaches, like me, most gardeners are already envisioning a beautiful landscape. For many, the flower bed is the one garden element that serves as the highlight of the landscape. Now is ...

Adding slug-repellent plants to your beds and borders can be a smart choice in any planting scheme. After all, waking up to discover that beloved plants have been devoured by slugs during the night is ...

When you face a flower bed and can’t immediately tell what’s a weed and what’s a flower, you have a situation my wife calls "Code Red." It happens to the best of us at times — myself included. So what ...

The days are brightening and soon plant growth, already begun, will be more obvious. This is the perfect time to take stock of established flower beds and borders to see if they need some re-arranging ...

Laying out beds and borders in a new garden — or maintaining the existing, often ‘inherited’ ones — is rarely given the consideration it needs. It is not simply a matter of deciding that a square bed, ...