Planning your garden? Don't forget to plan for your hardscape as well. Hardscape is the inorganic part of the garden or yard, such as walkways and pergolas. Put a strong emphasis on "part of the ...

Now that we’re officially in summer, your tomatoes all staked and suckered, hedges properly trimmed and coiffed, it’s time to turn attention to hardscape. It’s been said that you can have a very good ...

In landscape design, the hard palette refers to constructed elements. The soft palette is strictly plants. Separating these two palettes makes designing your yard a lot easier. Put them together ...

English/Cottage Garden Style Blossoming in popularity during the Elizabethan era (1558–1603), English or cottage gardens are ...

You’ve heard of landscaping. How about hardscaping? Hardscapes are the man-made features that bring form and function to our landscapes, providing a contrast to living elements such as plants, trees ...

A garden’s hardscape, which includes hard-surface elements such as walls, fences, gates and paths, lends support to the garden’s plants whose job is to create pleasure for the expectant garden viewer.

Fall is a good time to plan the addition of hardscape to your landscape. Hardscape is functional, non-plant objects such as arbors, gazebos, fences, rocks, paths, and so forth. It can fill many needs ...

While we may think of landscaping in terms of plants, trees, flowers, and shrubs, that’s only part of the story. Even if your garden was designed to look like a meadow of wildflowers, chances are you ...