Landscaping Ideas Video

If you like to save money look for landscaping ideas for the yard and garden you can do yourself. For most outdoor projects you do not need to hire a landscape architect if you are willing to do the research and work yourself.

There are many places to search for outdoor landscaping ideas if you are new to this type of development. Local home and garden centers are a great place to start if you prefer to implement it yourself rather than hire a professional landscaping service. The Internet has a huge online resource of information for anyone that is a beginner or for someone who is knowledgeable in landscaping but just needs a few new and creative ideas for their home.

It is important to do a simple sketch with measurements of your outdoor space. Note where the doors and windows of your home are. Decide what locations you want to change. Do you want an area for the kids? Would you like a vegetable garden or an outdoor kitchen? How about a small koi pond?

After you have decided what you want in your yard and where to put them do some online research to find the best place to purchase the plants or kits for your project. Some things may require a little more muscle but you can always invite your brother-in-law over to help.

Visit your local home and garden center to find out which plants flourish in your particular area. Easy care, high payoff perennials are wonderful because you can count on them to return every year without much attention. This will save you money in replanting every year.

If your goal is to create something visual attractive with not much upkeep involved plant for all seasons. Get an assortment of evergreen shrubs and trees that look good all year. Mix in a few seasonal plants also. Ones that bare fruit in the spring and change color in the fall.

Don’t be afraid to get rid of your lawn. It is a huge consumer of time, fertilizer and water. Try filling in with a large brick patio area with stepping stones inviting a visitor to explore your yard and gardens. Landscape with river rock meander around the yard to mimic a dry creek.

Landscaping ideas for the yard and garden you can do yourself are very rewarding. Anybody can write a check to a landscape architect but only a few could get out there and do it themselves. It will be your own creation designed by your imagination.

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There is a green luxury that most of us take for granted. Whether in our front yards, neighborhoods, or local park, oak trees are considered to be majestic and beautiful trees that provide a lot of shade and greenery to our otherwise dull scenes.

However, oak wilt is threatening that beautiful scenery quite rapidly. Oak wilt, also known as “sudden oak death,” is one of the most threatening tree diseases and continues to kill off live oak and red oak trees - including shumard oaks, Spanish oaks and blackjack oaks - spreading from one to the next. This disease is caused by a fungus called Ceratocystis fagacearum which takes over a tree’s water conducting system, thus causing the tree to die quickly. Oak wilt kills off a tree only to move on to another, spreading through the trees’ root systems. Nitidulid beetles, which are attracted to fresh wood, can also spread the disease by coming into contact with a tree’s fresh wounds (from pruning or storm damage, for example) and moving on to to another tree. Sap-feeding beetles consume the tree sap on fungal mats that develop on infected oak trees. Nitidulid beetles then unwittingly transfer fungus spores, which become attached to them, to a healthy tree where the spores are allowed to germinate and infect with oak wilt.

What are some of the things you can do if oak wilt is destroying your oak trees?

Trenching: This is an effective and natural way to thwart the oak wilt. Building trenches at least 100 feet away from an infected tree can curb the spread of oak wilt from the roots of the trees. This is not a guaranteed method of preventing oak wilt, but it is a safe way to temporarily protect other trees from becoming infected.

Cutting grass: During the fall and winter, lawn experts recommend cutting your grass a little higher than usual in order to maintain a deeper root system, which contributes to a healthier lawn. Before you mow your lawn next time, raise the deck height of your mower to a height of at least two inches for warm season grasses and about three to four inches for cool-season grasses. In the more densely shaded areas of your lawn, you should allow the grass to reach an even taller height.

Get rid of infected trees: Trees that have been infected with oak wilt and have already died from the infection should be destroyed immediately to avoid spreading infection via the tree’s root systems. Dead trees can be cut down and the wood can be either burned or covered up in plastic for six months before the wood can be dried. The edges of the plastic should be buried in the ground as well.

Fungicide Treatment (Injecting): Every two to three years, you can inject your oak trees with an effective fungicide treatment such as Alamo fungicide, which is designed specifically to fight oak wilt. Applying the fungicide will not completely stop oak wilt from spreading through the tree’s root system, but can be effective toward saving individual trees.

Trim your trees at appropriate times: To avoid nitidulid beetles, plan your trimming or tree shearing around the beetles’ off season.

Paint it Red: Painting the wounds of an oak after you’ve trimmed it will close the wound off to any potential infection from nitidulid beetles who are attracted to the fungal mats on these open surfaces and will stop the beetle from carrying fungal spores with it from tree to tree. In some areas, a homeowner can get fined heavily for not painting the wounds of a tree that has just been trimmed.

Avoid infected tools: Avoid using the same tools you used to work on any infected trees. Using these tools can help spread the infection to an otherwise healthy tree that you may be just trimming or pruning. If you need to use the same tools, a safe bet would be to sterilize them before using them on the new tree.

Choose firewood wisely: By unknowingly moving firewood from infected oak trees to new locations, healthy oak trees can become infected from the exposed fungal mats on the firewood. Make sure the firewood you are transporting did not come from an infected tree.

Diversification is key: Oak wilt is a terrible tree disease that is not going to go away anytime soon. The goal for tree sustainability is to think long-term and do what is best for your yard and/or neighborhood. Live oak and red oak trees are not the only type of oak trees you can plant in your yard. Take advantage of the different types of trees that can be cultivated and planted that are not susceptible to oak wilt. Even if you wanted to only cultivate oak trees, building and development ordinances do not allow the planting of any oak susceptible to oak wilt. However, many options exist in planting oak wilt resistant types of trees.

By educating yourself about what oak wilt disease encompasses, you are on your way to beautifying your home, your neighbors’, and community.

Fran Phalin is a freelance editor and writer specializing in home improvement topics. She is based in Austin, TX.

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This animated video is part of the “Eat the View” campaign to turn part of the White House’s 18 acre lawn back into an edible landscape. The video tells the story of the “America’s Garden” from 1800 when President John Adams planted the first “first vegetables” to feed his own family to the present day.

It ends by peeking optimistically into the future when President Obama, seeing how our world is changing, announces plans to replant America’s garden, inspiring countless citizens to grow some of their own delicious, healthy, and environmentally responsible food.

The “Eat the View” campaign is powered by real people like you. If you haven’t yet signed our petition, please do so here: eattheview.org/petition

The video was produced by the nonprofit group Kitchen Gardeners International (KitchenGardeners.org) which is leading the “Eat the View” campaign. The animation is the creative genius of Eliot Morrison of yiggs.com.

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Path to Freedom presents ‘A Homegrown Revolution’ A collaboration of selective media clips which feature their urban homestead and farm which focus on the need of radical action — growing food in the city.

This self produced, short music video was shown at Peter Seller’s Cultural Art’s class at UCLA followed by a short presentation by urban farmer, Jules Dervaes founder of Path to Freedom. The class focus was on the art of slow food and among other guests invited were Michael Pollan, Alice Waters and Eric Schlosser.

Like Victory Gardens of yesteryear, start your own homegrown revolution, grow your own food in your back or front yard — for more information visit the urban homesteaders at http://www.PathtoFreedom.com

Or on their online journal at: http://www.urbanhomestead.org/journal

Since the early 80’s the Dervaes family has slowly transformed their ordinary city lot into a self sufficient urban homestead.

(NOTE: This video’s creation, concept, layout, sound pickups and editing was done in a marathon session of just three days so please excuse any choppy editing! )

VIDEO FOOTAGE COURTESY OF
Path to Freedom
Treehugger TV
CBS2 / KCAL9
SPA8 / Chris Klonecke
Gina Angelique / Chris Hall
EARTH RISE Dance Performance

INTERVIEWS COURTESY
Path to Freedom
Christopher Klonecke
Gina Angelique / Chris Hall
CBS2 / KCAL9

MUSIC COURTESY
“Revolution Cry”
Lifehouse / Blyss

“World”
Five for Fighting

“Paths of Victory”
Bob Dylan

“Looking Out My Backdoor”
Creedence Clearwater Revival

“Smoothie Song”"
Nickel Creek

“Drive”
REM

“Green Grows the Rushes”
REM

“Footprints in the Snow”
Songs of the Hills

“Seneca Square Dance”
Songs of the Hills

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