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Landscape Design and Gardening Newsletter
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Issue#602
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Written by Steve Boulden
Owner of S&S Designed Landscaping,LLC
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Welcome to another great issue of your landscape design and gardening newsletter.

The landscaping plan in this issue is pretty cool because it uses a lot of different textures, elements, and colors to give it its unique form. I hope you can get an idea or two out of it.

And as usual, some amazing gardening wisdom, new additions, and other stuff.

Let's get going.

Steve Boulden,
S&S Design

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IN THIS ISSUE
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o Article - Proper Placement Of Trees In Landscape Design

o Landscaping Lesson - Curb Appeal For A Large Corner Lot

o New Addition - The Blog

o Featured Site Of Interest - Garden Simply.com

o A Little Help With Plant Selection

o Another Article - Detergent In The Garden???

o Garden Decor

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Proper Placement Of Trees In Landscape Design
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Improperly placed trees and plants is one of the biggest mistakes that I see do it yourselfers make in their designs.

Having a little vision into the future, knowing the plants you plant, and giving it a little thought will help eliminate this problem. The following article I wrote is a simple check list of what you should consider before you plant any landscaping trees.

Read It Here:

Planting Landscaping Trees

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Landscaping Lesson - Curb Appeal For A Large Corner Lot
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This design is a little different but still really cool. It uses a lot of different textures, colors, curves, and elements to give it its unique feel. Check it out here:

Landscaping For Curb Appeal

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New Addition - The Landscape Design Web Log
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I really like this addition to the site. I'm not sure why I didn't do it sooner.

It's a great way for you to keep up with new landscaping ideas additions, pages, and site information as it happens. There's even a little personal stuff about me and my landscaping company.

I update it every three or four days so bookmark it or subscribe to it. Here's the address:

Landscaping Blog

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Featured Site Of Interest - Garden Simply.com
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Here's a great site to check out. And I'm not just saying that because the owner has become one of my personal cyber-friends. It really does have a lot of great gardening information worth checking into.

Just off the normal beaten path, the site has a lot of great information on gardening, organic gardening, nutrition, health, living, and life. I think you'll find it very enjoyable and informative as well. Check it out.

www.gardensimply.com

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A Little Help With Plant Selection
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While my plant selection and database pages have a lot of great guidelines and information on choosing the right plants, some folks still can't quite get it. You can see those two pages at:

Garden Plant Ideas

www.the-landscape-design-site.com/gardenplants.html

So..., If you're just a little horticulturally or color challenged, I say we might just have to cheat a little bit.

While my landscape contractors pride made me stay away from store bought pre-planned gardens for a long time, I have to admit they have come to my rescue a time or two. We'll keep that between us since some folks think I'm a planting genius.

Anyway....., I've had a lot of DIY clients have really good results using them. The finished results have all looked really professional to me.

If you find this is the way you need to go, check out the suppliers that I mention in the following article at:

Pre Planned Garden Designs Ideas

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Detergent In The Garden???
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In one of my very first issues I wrote about using laundry or dish washing detergent as a surfactant for insecticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and such.

Since then I've found a few more garden and landscaping uses for ordinary household detergent. Read about it here:

Garden Tips - Uses For Detergent In The Garden

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The Garden Decor Store
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Ever heard of a place called "Design Toscano"? Most folks haven't. It is without a doubt one of my favorite places to shop for decor, statues, and such. Not only because of price, but because they have such cool stuff.

Before Toscano had a website and before I had a computer, I was ordering through them mail order. A great site worth checking out. Check them out here:

http://www.the-landscape-design-site.com/cgi-bin/arp3/arp3-t.pl?l=27&c=34076

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That's all for this issue.

While you're waiting for next issue, you can check out the new software reviews at Landscape Design Software Reviews. I'll be adding more to it as I find time to review more software.

If you have questions or comments, feel free to email me at:
steve@the-landscape-design-site.com

Steve Boulden
S&S Designed Landscaping,LLC

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