There are times when you are home to yourself and you long for company.
A fire pit room adds an inviting ambiance into a yard. You can build your own concrete cube pit from CMU blocks to create an outdoor gathering area which will give enjoyment for years to come. The substances are relatively inexpensive and you’ll be able to complete this job in only a couple hours. You…
In case you’ve got the misfortune of staring out your back window to a cinder block wall, you would likely prefer a different view. Plain or even painted cinder blocks do not inspire people to unwind. If you would like to change your view, you may use several landscaping methods to hide the blocks, so…
Plants from the Solanaceae family are informally called nightshade plants. Onions, like red onions, aren’t from the Solanaceae or nightshade family. Nightshade plants comprise potatoes (Solanum tuberosum), tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum), manyflower tobacco (Nicotiana acuminata) and petunias (Petunia axillaris), grown as perennials at U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11. While the potato…
Having trouble with animals straying into your backyard? The 18th-century English gentry had the ideal answer to protecting their manicured yards by marauding sheep or cows — the sunken ditch, or ha-ha. The ha-ha — named for the surprise that a person got on suddenly coming across it — had one sloping side and a…
Hooray! Summer has finally arrived! Now it is time to get outdoors and enjoy your garden. If you are eager to integrate modern styling and design into your garden, however small or big it is, there are lots of strategies to achieve this and a good deal of products that may help create a fresh…