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Outdoor renovations can be daunting. We assembled expert advice on our most commonly asked design, installation, and maintenance questions so you can care for your property with the industry’s best practices.
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Design and Planning
Learning the language of outdoor features will help ease communication with design-minded consultants.
Follow along to make a scaled plan looking down at your yard from a bird’s eye perspective.
Explore the possibilities for your property through a fun, family-friendly activity — before spending a dime.
The specifics of your property’s microclimate, or environmental variables, will inform the plants you select and where they best belong.
Thinking about your outdoor living spaces through little eyes creates very different spaces. Speaking from personal experience as parents and designers, here are our tips for planning around baby, toddlers, kids and teens in any size yard.
Professional landscape designers share their best advice for imagining new outdoor spaces, from understanding the components of a landscape to visualizing potential changes.
Landscape upgrades can significantly boost home values. A top realtor shares her three go-to strategies for adding instant curb appeal.
A few simple changes to your yard can protect homes from capricious flames and help keep wildfires from spreading.
Make the most of every inch of your property by embracing sloped areas with these artful ideas from YardKit’s professional designers.
Buying a new house can feel overwhelming. How do you approach all the projects that make a new house feel like home?
Planting
Visiting a garden center, nursery, or home repair center is less daunting when you know how to interpret all of those labels and ask for what you want.
From selecting species to installing irrigation, professionals share best practices for properly installing new plants.
Whether you live in a dry environment that doesn't receive much rainfall, or simply want to reduce your irrigation costs and efforts, xeriscaping may be just the thing you need.
From stress reduction to enhancing creativity, plants do so much more than simply add curb appeal to our homes.
Properly choosing the correct type of plants or trees for your garden can simultaneously save and make you money.
Installation
From surveying your property to seeing new additions go in the ground, it’s helpful to know what will be on your contractor’s mind.
Demystify the world of contractors, gardeners, landscapers, and trade specialists, and which is the best fit for your project.
Feeling confident navigating box home improvement stores is key to getting those great projects done. Here are seven shortcuts to get you in and out, fast.
Maintenance
Gardeners, landscapers, and maintenance personnel helping to keep your outdoor spaces in tip-top shape will appreciate your knowing some common landscape care practices.
Properly caring for your planted areas will protect your investments well into the future. Run through our maintenance checklist to ensure a happy, healthy landscape.
The end of daylight saving time is the perfect time to get your yard in tip-top shape for the seasons ahead. A few simple steps will reward you in spring with healthier plants and less damage to your property.
Seasonal Topics
There are many ways outdoor adventures benefit our physical and mental health, as well as our social well-being. Here are some creative ideas for how to take a nature adventure without wandering out into the wilderness.
Take a fresh look at what may already be in your own backyard. Three foraging artists offer inspiration for easy, budget-friendly ideas to bring the outside in this holiday season.
Whether you're looking for a grand display or a demure keepsake, and have a budget of $16 or $100 or more, this is the definitive list for memorable, contemporary closing gift ideas.
Celebrate the heroic ladies in your life with something that they'll actually appreciate: an experience that lets them get out and enjoy the fresh spring air. Coupled with a gift. Who wouldn't feel loved?
Walking into a nursery or garden center can be overwhelming. Here’s your survival guide to picking the best plants for your yard.