Begonias are a popular annual plant that continuously flower all Summer.
Begonias are great in flower beds, flower pots, window boxes and are usually red, white, or pink in color.
PS 1. Two types of Begonias: Wax Begonias are more sun and heat tolerant and the Tuberous begonias need more shade with less heat.
2. A Family of Begoniaceae are best in the front row of your garden as they only grows 6-15 inches or 15-36cm high.
Nicely trimmed white cedar trees can create a privacy hedge or natural screen in landscape design.
Got a Neighbor retired and nosy?
Best hire a company to get a hedge job done in a day fast … move on to more important family and business events!
There are many types of spruce trees, but the Alberta Spruce is an extremely slow growing spruce tree.
The Alberta Spruce tree a top pick for tight landscaping areas and can be used for featuring walkways.
Not a gardener?
Hire out a tree landscape company to finalise your design and do all the buying and installation work
Demonstration on how to drop a tree eight different ways using different types of notches. Real live example on 140-150 feet high Fir Trees. Informative!
Types of Tree Saw Cuts and video’s time location:
The Humboldt- 1:26
Gapped Face- 7:23
Conventional Face Cut- 13:21
The Bore Cut- 19:27
The Sizwill- 24:57
Pulling one with a Rope- 29:17
Open Faced Notch- 35:32
Backcut First- 39:33
DYK: Removing a large stump can be the costly experience.
Wood Gazebo is a GOTO gathering place for friends and family offering protection from the sun and rain!
Today, with the introduction of aluminum tubing and sheet roofing one can install a metal gazebo in your backyard at a fraction of the cost of a wood gazebo! 
Here is an example of a large 6 sided Gazebo design using wood posts, roof timbers, wood railing and roof decking with asphalt roof shingles.
If your Gazebo Deck is low to the grade, then banisters could be optional!
Palm Trees around always a tropical vibe!
Poppys are prized for their large size and colorfulness!
Get a Wow out of most people… lovely in large groupings … many unique exciting poppy colors like this pink poppy!
Planting your poppies in the fall will reward you lovely poppy flowers in early summer!
Orange Poppy flower is a traditional color & very eye catching in Spring
Crab Apple Tree in flower close up photo . You can also see the small apples beginning to form on the tree.
A beautiful mid size height tree to buy, plant and enjoy in Spring when it flowers, top pick DIY project or give to your landscaper.
Crab Tree flowering trees are readily available in red, pink, white … customized varieties can be found in your higher end nursery garden centre.
Tree cutting gone wrong: house damage, head injuiry, vehicles destroyed, laughing, screaming, Timber!
DIY Tree Videos: Why Hire a Tree Service Company?
Best TIME to TRIM TREES? Autumn and Winter are the cooler seasons, thus a good time to trim trees. Trees are in a dormant growth stage so there is less risk to damage or kill the tree.
Your tree is in a lower metabolic activity state conserving energy, therefore there is less risk when cutting tree limbs.
PS What is the Cheapest way to trim a tree … is to let it fall down! Use this tree idea at your own risk!
Tree Cutting Notes:
Falling Trees and dropping large limbs is best done when the frost is in the ground as there is less damage to grass and landscaping.
Removing larger Trees is dependent on where one can drop large branches safely and proximity of equipment to chip the wood for removal.
To light any great outdoor fire one places kindling, crumple paper, wood shavings, pieces of bark on top and under large split wood or logs arrange in a pyramid shape .. when lit flames start the burn, then hot embers burn down into the center igniting the inside wood.
In 1600s, European soldiers used logs for heating, lighting and cooking. To light, place kindling such as wood shavings, pine cones needles or small pieces of tree bark on top and inside of a log. Once the tinder starts to burn, the hot embers drop down into the log, igniting the inside. Modern day lighting one would use lighter fluid, or fire starter blocks.
Make a Fire Torch Log! Take a good size log, chain saw down 6-10 inches 2-3 times as shown and prepare a fire on top. Fun to do, soft wood burns faster!
The dandelion weed is a persistent perennial weed. If permitted, it will take over your lawn with it’s large light blocking leafs, reducing the effectiveness of grass to grow. Returning every year, usually blooming twice per season, as this owner knows well.
Weed Problem left too long? Hard to win against the dandelion .. best just call the weed specialists!
Dandelions: Why your Can’t Win!
If you not interested in using it’s dandelion’s leaves, stem, flowers or root parts for medicinal purposes then you know getting rid of them is almost impossible!!!
Dandelion hard to Remove! The difficulty is the dandelion’s long fleshy tap root. When pulled it rarely comes out in one piece leaving a root for a new dandelion to grow.
Many hours invested? No win situation.
Grass plugs are left overs from the Golf Course aerating their grass fairways and approaches to the putting greens. They run roller machines to perforate the grass and soil allowing exposure to air, more water and nutrients.
Spring Aerating Service is available through many of your local landscaping maintenance companies.
GOAL & Result is better lawn appearance and growth.
Is Hiring a Lawn Service Company is a good choice for many?
Fact is that Some of the needed lawn equipment is costly, aerator, grass cutting equipment, trimmer, and blower . … many of these equipment pieces need annual service .. must be gassed up … some people like the ease of sitting back a watch their lawn cut, trimmed and cleanly blown.
This feeds the grass roots which respond to produce a greener stronger vigorous lawn. Also helps to loosen up compacted soil conditions.
GrassCycling never heard of it? It is not new
Idea is that grass clippings, fresh grass clippings are 60-70 per cent water, will break down and add nutrients to your lawn giving you a healthy lawn. Maybe save on some fertilizer.
List of Different Types of Self Seeding Plants
Featured is a Self Seeding Fox Glove, which offers a great variety of different colored flowering plants.
Excellent place to start gardening with self seeding plants!
Photographed in early summer.Shown is a purchased “garden center Fox Glove” plant which produces lots of flowers over several weeks with the assistance of multiple flowering stems.
In the fall, it will self seed, let your garden do the some of the natural rebirth work! You can harvest the seed pods over the summer. Replant Fox Gloves else where or give extra seeds to family, neighbors and friends.
Below the photos is handy a list of self seeding flowering plants that can save you some money when at the garden center.
Got to plant them before summer comes! 
Here is a list of different self seeding plants, the pictures above are an example of foxglove flower, scientific name is (Digitalis purpurea)
Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)
Borage (Borago officinalis)
Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
Honesty (Lunaria annua)
Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
Phacelia tanacetifolia
Pot marigold (Calendula officinalis)
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
Verbena bonariensis
Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica)
Colorful Example of a Rock Garden in mid Spring showing a variety of Flower arrangement ideas.
Landscape ideas can be the key to winning design! Scan Google’s internet images, some garden centers offer free design ideas and gardening services, also landscape garden related service companies can help you with idea layouts, pricing and selection costs.
P.S. Year of the Garden? Jack Up your garden Design with some use of different types & shapes of rocks, along with dash different varieties of eye catching flowers and small shrubs.
The Ice Pansy in Spring is frost hardy flowering plant coming in a multitude of bright solid and mixed assortment of colors.
Yes, for color impact & splash the bigger pansies make noticeable difference, see area calculations at the bottom to understand why!
Spring Flowers: Local garden centers, building stores, Costco display and big box grocery stores offer for sale Ice Pansies because they are frost hardy. Jump start your Spring with color!!!
Fall Flowers: Late Fall Tip: Frost is a killer of most Fall plants and their flowers, so planting greenhouse grown Ice Pansies in the off season, ie found at Lowes, Home Depot and Better Garden Centers, … a a fast way to return color in your prime garden areas.
PS Personally prefer the bigger 2″ plus diameter pansies for BIG color garden impact – takes some searching, not every store has the monster flowers!!!
Question: How much bigger is a 1″ pansy versus a 2″ pansy? Much larger, actually four times larger – see calculation below!
Well a 1″ (2.54 cm) )diameter pansy measures approx. 3/4 (5.06 square cm) of a square inch
A 2″ (5.08cm) )diameter pansy measures approx. 3.14 (20.2 square cm) of a square inch
The old Garden Hose Reel meant you had to do the work of winding the water hose back on the reel.
Good News! New designed Hose Reel versions are available, Pull the hose out to where it is needs, then with a tug, the spring loaded reel will draw in your hose and align it like you would have done manually.
Well good water gardening news!
This Flow Master hose reel will do the reeling for you with it’s heavy spring which pulls the hose back in for storage.
Hose Reel is great for the elderly and those who do not want to fight 50+ feet of heavy hose back onto the reel.
Auto Reel makes the need to water the flowers, pots, filling the pond, hot tub just a lot easier!
Wood burns best when dry. A good enclosure helps keeps your wood “ready to use” out of the rain and snow.
No more Wet Fire Wood!!!
Fire Wood Box Design – holds 2 rows of split wood with roof keeping split wood dry ready for fireplace and fit pit
Oversized Pussy Willow Blooms Maxed Out. A Full flowering wild Pussy willow!
Pussy Willows in full bloom closer up! 
This is what a pussy willow trees’s flowers or catkin’s look like early Spring time.
Pussy Willows flowers are refer to as “Catkins” – very striking display in Spring
Forget Me Nots are a welcomed Spring Flower blossoming in Blue and Pink.
Blue Forget Me Nots show well on a this dark fence background as in the above photo.
Forget me Nots produce a colorful pretty blue Spring Flower.
Will the Gypsy Moth Infestation 2022 be the same as last year?
The Gypsy Moth Caterpillar starts out as an extremely tiny 1/4″ – 60 mm long thin hard to see Caterpillar. But not for long as they grow quickly eating your broad leaf trees, oak, basswood, maples, larch … even conifers such as the pine and spruce. 
Gypsy Caterpillar Tree infestation will strip a tree of most of it’s leaves.
So what’s the solution?
PS The male Gypsy Moth flies around endlessly, not eating, just looking to mate with a female Gypsy Moth.
2022: Moth Pods are laid and ready. If you look at an infected tree’s bark you can see loonie size whitish-grey pods which contain the eggs to be hatched!
…Hopefully this cold winter might reduce the number of Gypsy Moths in 2022.
White Wooden Bridge built by the Koreshan Settlement in the Victorian era of 1905 Florida.
Wooden Bridge painted white spans a small Florida creek with Live Oak Tree in front.
Closer full view of the Wooden Bridge’s design and its detail.
The 1905 VictorianWood Bridge Story.
Wooden posts painted white rise up high on both sides at each bridge entrance.
Use of Cross design along with fully detailed corner posts.
Entrance view: Estimate bridge is 14 to 16 feet wide with a 70 to 80 foot span.
The Jack or Jackfruit tree is the largest tree fruit in the world, with one Jack Fruit weighing up to 100 lbs. Referred to as fenne, jak fruit, jack or jak, it is a species related to the fig, mulberry and breadfruit family.
Jack Tree Fruit Photos from Florida, Naples area. 
These are of a smaller fruit size approximately 10 to12 inches in diameter. 
Landscaping with Fine Touches, this professionally designed garden layout has skillful attention to detail.
Location Sydney, Australia
Buying a palapa umbrella, tiki hut, gazebo or grass hut one should consider getting a natural woven palm leaf roof to add to your tropical theme in the backyard, at the hot tub or at the pool. A design upgrade a Palm leaf roof can be of different products: Mexician Palm, African Reed, Synthetic Palm & Reed to name a few.
Did you know a good palm leaf roof can last over 10 years in Florida .. add 5 years if in California
Many trees in the neighborhood are decorated with LED lights for Christmas.
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Approach from opposite side of t he bridge shows the many pieces; timber structure, rails, wood arches, posts and wood decking .. a significant landmark.
