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Stop! Before you plant anything. 🛑

We get it. You're excited, the nursery's calling, and you've got visions of magazine-worthy gardens dancing in your head. But seven quick questions first will change everything about how your garden turns out.

Think of it as the planning that pays off all season long. 🌱

7 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Plant A Garden - GROUNDS KEEPER Inc. So you're ready to improve your landscape! And you're excited about adding new gardens that will bloom and grow and make your home worthy of a magazine cover. You've probably been tempted by the myriad colors on display at your local nursery or big box store. You may even be itching to pick up a sho...

What's better: a summer staycation in your own backyard, or spending weekends chasing algae and w**ds? 🏡

We're going with option one. That's why we've rounded up our favorite summer reads on pond care, garden planning, low-maintenance landscapes, and the flowers that deserve a spot in your yard right now.

No overwhelm. Just beautiful ideas you can pull off. 🌻

6 Pond & Landscape Resources To Start Your Summer Right - GROUNDS KEEPER Inc. Summer is here, and the living should be easy! Good news on that front - we've rounded up…

Your evening gatherings deserve more than a porch light and good intentions. ✨

The right landscape lighting transforms the whole vibe. Your guests feel welcomed, the space feels alive, and suddenly everyone wants to be outside.

String lights draped over a pergola. Uplighting on a beautiful tree. Soft pools of light along the patio where people dine. Dramatic shadows that make your landscape pop. Water features that glow like something out of a dream.

That's the difference between a backyard and an outdoor room.

Ready to create a space where your best evenings happen? We've got plenty of ideas here. 🌙

Landscape Lighting Ideas For Evening Outdoor Entertaining - GROUNDS KEEPER Inc. If you love to entertain outdoors during the evening - or you wish you could! - then the one thing you can't do without is outdoor lighting. It's functional - enhancing safety and providing light to cook, grill, serve cocktails and have conversations by, and it's beautiful - creating ambiance, setti...

You could spend weekends with a lawn mower and w**d whacker… or you could design simple maintenance into your landscape from the ground up.

You might be surprised by how some simple design choices can make the difference between a yard that requires hours of sweat and labor, or one that you can sit back and enjoy this season.

Read more to get beautiful ideas for making your life easier!

Low Maintenance Landscape Ideas For A Stress-Free Summer - GROUNDS KEEPER Inc. Summer should be time for relaxing, for cool drinks by the pool, for barbecues and lazy weekends. You may enjoy getting outdoors more, but it's pretty unlikely that you're looking forward to mowing the grass every week or getting elbow-deep in garden w**ds. A great landscape requires *some* maintena...

☀️ What would you say to a summer resort right in your own backyard?

No plane tickets or hotel reservations. Just turning the space you already have into the place everyone wants to be.

Water that soothes you. Seating that fits how you live. Shade when you need it. Fire for gathering. Lighting that makes magic happen after sunset.

Ready to stop dreaming about your perfect outdoor space and start living in it? Get inspired!

Outdoor Living Essentials For Your Summer Landscape - GROUNDS KEEPER Inc. Are you looking for a summer getaway, a place you can unwind, leave your cares behind, enjoy the outdoors and bask in whatever your favorite summer pastime is? Well, look no further than your own back yard! Before you go making vacation reservations or snapping up plane tickets, how about making you...

🌊 You've seen the dream pond: sparkling water, happy fish, pure serenity. Then your brain kicks in with the worries. Predators will eat fish. Algae soup incoming. Constant maintenance forever.

But those aren't pond problems. They're bad design problems.

Thinking about diving into an aquatic lifestyle but anxiously stuck in the sand? Read on to see how a pond actually works when it's done right.

Thinking Twice: You Love The Idea Of A Pond… But Will It Actually Work? - GROUNDS KEEPER Inc. A pond is one of those outdoor features that occupies a strange space in your imagination. You see…