A beautiful, well-maintained landscape is the dream of every homeowner, but achieving it takes a lot of time and effort, as well as practical skill and knowledge. If you want to learn more about landscaping and pick up helpful tips on plant care and maintenance, landscaping blogs are a great way to get started. Take a look at 35 great blogs to follow this year.
1. Unique Landscapes
Unique landscapes, located in Phoenix, Arizona provides beautiful photography and informative landscaping blogs on both landscape and swimming pool design. If you’re interested in unique swimming pools and spas, this site will certainly be inspiring. Blog topics focus on beautiful pools and spas for all types of homes, as well as care and maintenance issues. Articles offer great advice on pool amenities like floor cleaners, heaters, underwater lighting, underwater shelves, swim-up bars and outdoor misting systems.
2. The Landscape Design Site Blog
The Landscape Design Site Blog features a variety of posts on landscape design, front yard and back yard landscaping, hillside landscaping, desert landscape design and going green landscape design. You’ll find helpful articles on water and irrigation techniques, erosion problems, building outdoor features and basic lawn care and maintenance. Landscaping blogs also include helpful photos and links to free landscaping design and planning ideas for your home.
3. Landscape + Urbanism
Landscape + Urbanism is an interesting blog written by a landscape architect who combines topics on landscape design with topics on architecture. The landscape design company, based in Portland, Oregon, features contemporary landscape ideas and modern architectural designs. You’ll find this blog interesting and inspiring from a modern point of view.
4. Clean Air Through Green Roofs
If you’re interested in green living and sustainable designs, you’ll find Clean Air Through Green Roofs landscaping blogs very inspiring. Along with promoting green ecosystems and water conservation, this blog site discusses the many benefits of green roofs and features some interesting photos of homes and commercial buildings in the US and other countries that have green roofs.
5. Hanselman Landscape and Gardens
Hanselman Landscape and Gardens provides landscape and garden design, care and maintenance and specialty nursery care for residential projects. Their landscaping blogs and creative designs focus on Japanese gardens, water gardens, courtyard gardens, children’s gardens and swimming pool landscaping. Their blogs bring a unique sense of creativity with important design advice for readers and colorful images that are inspirational.
6. Backyard Blogger
Backyard Blogger is written by a self taught home gardener in Texas who simply has a passion for landscaping and gardening. Landscaping blogs are easy-to-read and follow for beginners and more experienced gardeners. You’ll find wonderful blogs on landscaping and planting, flower gardens, edible gardens and pruning schedules and techniques. There’s a variety of unique and interesting topics like green gardening gift ideas, gardening with kids, garden to table cooking, seasonal garden ideas and water saving tips for hot and humid Texas landscapes. These blogs take a no-frills approach to landscaping and gardening and provide a lot of basic advice.
7. Garden History Girl
Garden History Girl is a wonderful blog that takes you back through the pages of history with beautiful landscaping and garden facts and photography. You’ll learn about Thomas Edison’s passion for gardening, along with information and photos of French gardens, Russian gardens, European landscapes, native landscapes, courtyard landscapes and beautiful outdoor ornaments and pottery. If you’re a history buff and you love landscaping and gardening, this blog is very inspirational, regardless of if you’re a novice or avid gardener.
8. The High Line
The High Line is a public park maintained, operated, and programmed by Friends of the High Line, in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Volunteers and friends of the High Line help to raise 98 percent of the annual budget to maintain the city park. Owned and operated by the City of New York, the High Line serves as a city park to residents in the area. Landscaping blogs feature interesting articles on planting, sustainable design and landscape design ideas for the park. The High Line is an inspirational blog that promotes green landscaping and features the outstanding landscaping results of an involved New York community.
9. Chaparral Landscaping
Chaparral Landscaping, located in Santa Maria, CA., is a full-service landscape company that focuses on the design and installation of outdoor features and hardscapes. They build and install walkways and pathways, patios, retaining walls, interlocking paver driveways, outdoor water features and landscape lighting. Since they’re located in California, a drought prone area, landscaping blogs often focus on artificial turf and drought-tolerant plants, shrubs and trees that promote water conservation, a popular landscaping option for California homeowners. This blog will inspire you to think about the benefits of beautiful, cost-efficient landscaping.
10. Sparrow Landscaping
Sparrow is a beautiful blog site with easy-to-read articles and inspiring photography. The focus is on building a harmonious balance between landscaping, nature and wildlife. With the use of native plants and specialty gardens, Sparrow will inspire you to get in touch with nature. You’ll find a variety of educational articles about flowers, butterflies, wildlife and furry little critters who often want to nest in your landscape. Many of the landscape photos show more casual, natural landscapes that promote a more organic link between man and nature.
11. Urban Greenery
Urban Greenery is simply an incredible site that shows an inspiring side of urban living. With beautiful photography and interesting articles, you’ll find yourself rather mesmerized by all the landscaping possibilities and creative designs. From rooftop gardens to living walls, this blog site captures the true impact that beautiful landscaping can have on people’s lifestyles. If you weren’t a fan of urban living before, you certainly will be after following these remarkable landscaping blogs.
12. House Landscaping Ideas
House Landscaping Ideas features landscaping and planting ideas for your front and back yards. You’ll find interesting posts on garden design ideas, pool landscaping ideas, selecting plants for different sun and shade conditions, plant, shrub and tree varieties and some hardscaping ideas. There’s also some posts on new landscaping materials like rocks and sand used in sustainable landscapes and gardens, planters and beds and walkways and pathways. You’ll find links to creative design software for landscape design and gardening.
13. Bonza Landscaping & Hardscaping
Bonza Landscaping blogs take a simple, direct approach to educating their readers and customers with their landscaping blogs. Topics cover a wide range of landscaping and hardscaping interests such as preparing your lawn for summer heat, installing a new patio, outdoor landscape features, landscape lighting and holiday decorating ideas for your landscape. Their landscapes, as well as their blogs, focus on simplicity and a design approach with more traditional appeal for Pennsylvania homeowners and businesses.
14. Avant Gardening & Landscaping
Avant Gardening & Landscaping is a full-service landscape company located in McFarland, Wisconsin. As a provider of basic landscape maintenance services and design and build services for residential and commercial customers, their landscaping blogs are educational, and offer readers good design ideas and “how to” tips on a wide range of topics. They have a mobile nursery that offers beautiful perennials that are grown locally in the area. They also have an annual Garden Expo that’s held on premises and offers over 150 free seminars and demonstrations to learn the latest in gardening and landscaping trends. What a great educational tool for the community!
15. Borst Landscape & Design
Borst Landscape & Design, located in Allendale, NJ, is a full-service landscape company with over 25 years of experience. As a consecutive winner of the NJLCA Residential and Commercial Landscape Maintenance Award, they are one of the most respected authorities on landscape design in New Jersey. Their blogs offer valuable, educational landscape information on a wide range of topics including basic lawn care and maintenance, organic lawn care, pest control, garden design, outdoor landscape design/build features and landscape lighting. Borst Landscape & Design provides residential and commercial landscape services and cost-effective landscape packages to New Jersey homeowners in Bergen County.
16. Ledge and Gardens
Ledge and Gardens won the “Best Garden Blog Award” from Horticulture Magazine in 2012. Their garden design blogs discuss various landscape and garden topics, smart gardening techniques and plants that are native to their Rhode Island location. This blog site is loaded with helpful landscape information and great links to horticulture guides, a wildflower directory, a Latin botanical names directory; the Garden Guys Radio Show; and the University of Maryland Plants Diagnostics Guide. You can’t ask for much more educational help than that!
17. Neave Landscaping
Neave Landscaping, a full-service landscaping contractor in New York, is unique because they have a separate blog for each of their four divisions: pools, sports, landscaping and décor. All of their blogs are light-hearted and take a playful approach to serious topics. Although blogs are easy and fun to read, they are quite educational on a variety of topics related to each division. Neave’s landscaping blogs cover a variety of topics on their main landscape services including landscape design, landscape service and maintenance, design/build construction and gardens for residential, commercial and institutional clients through New York areas.
18. Dirt Simple
Dirt Simple is the blog of landscape and garden designer Deborah Silver in Sylvan Lake, Michigan. Although her formal education was in English literature and biology, she worked in a nursery to support herself through school and developed a passion for landscaping and gardening. She also worked as a watercolor and pastel artist which inspired much of her creative vision that shows up in her landscaping projects. Deborah’s love for landscape design and gardening combined with her creative eye makes her landscaping blogs beautiful and inspiring to read. Since 1986, she has evolved to become one of the most respected landscape designers and gardeners in the Detroit area. Her blogs are full of beautiful images and design tips that make you want to run out and plant a garden!
19. Cody Landscape
Cody Landscape blogs focus on landscaping ideas and information on different varieties of plants, flowers, shrubs and trees. You’ll find helpful information on planting schedules, propagating and pruning, water and irrigation, plant selections and care and maintenance. Blog posts feature a lot of information on evergreens, annuals and perennials, container gardens, arbor and trellis gardens, as well as photos of beautiful, colorful blooms for your landscape.
20. Fine Gardening
If you’re inspired by beautiful photographs of colorful plants and flowers, Fine Gardening should be on your list of landscaping blogs to follow. In addition to gorgeous photography, you’ll find articles on landscaping and gardening that are educational and easy-to-read. Blogs talk about low-maintenance grasses for your yard, succulents for water conservation, shrubs for privacy hedges, garden beds with annuals and perennials and creative landscaping design ideas for your yard and patio. Fine Gardening blogs will inspire your visual senses and fill your brain with great landscaping and garden ideas.
21. Sounds Green
Sounds Green is a fun, colorful blog that will keep you reading! You’ll find blog posts on a variety of topics under basic landscaping care and maintenance, garden design, landscape design and green landscaping. Posts also discuss common landscaping problems like standing water and drainage issues, erosion and re-grading issues and landscaping for hillsides and steep slopes. Sounds Green blogs are directed toward the DIY landscaper, so there are helpful “how to” tutorials and videos that make this blog good for beginners.
22. A Way To Garden
A Way To Garden is one of the best educational blogs you’ll find. With a focus on gardening, you’ll find great articles on all types of plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, annuals, perennials and bulbs, vegetable and edible gardens and landscape design ideas. Blogs contain a large list of “how-to” posts on a wide range of subjects from composting to outdoor pests and diseases. Organic gardening is a popular topic, as well as interesting posts on nature-related subjects and garden FAQs. Margaret Roach, the blogger, is a long-time gardener and former garden editor for Martha Stewart Living, and she has written three books on gardening. She gardens in Columbia County, New York, her home, where she also hosts a weekly public radio podcast on National Public Radio.
23. 66 Square Feet
66 Square Feet is a unique, informative blog site that focuses on gardening and landscaping for small outdoor spaces and urban rooftops. You’ll find wonderful landscaping blogs, design tips and photos for rooftop garden ideas in New York City, Brooklyn, the Bronx and various urban areas throughout New York and New Jersey. Although most landscaping blogs are geared to homeowners with great yards, this one focuses on people who choose to live in urban areas where living spaces are small, and there’s no such thing as a back yard. 66 Square Feet is inspiring for all those city dwellers out there!
24. Birds & Blooms
Birds & Blooms offers great landscaping blogs that focus on creating a natural eco-system that supports a natural interaction between birds and flowers in the landscape. If you’re interested in attracting beautiful birds to your landscape and garden, this is the perfect blog site to learn how to do it. You can learn about flowers that attract birds, bees and butterflies and create a balanced eco-system that will sustain them. There’s also posts about bird feeding and feeders, birdbaths and natural ponds and specialty plantings that attract various bird species to your landscape. The blogging team is made up of horticulturists, arborists and gardening experts.
25. Green Landscaping
Green Landscaping is a great landscaping blog site that offers a lot of basic, practical information on lawn care, planting new sod, pruning shrubs and trees, pest control and landscape design ideas. Blog posts are educational and easy-to-read, so they’re great for both beginners and advanced gardeners. You’ll find topics on watering and irrigation techniques, signs of an over watered lawn, lawn damage and diseases, installing sprinklers and best times for planting and watering. The information on Green Landscaping covers a wide range of landscaping topics, but they’re interesting and enjoyable.
26. Back Yard Landscape Ideas
Back Yard Landscape Ideas is full of basic lawn and garden information. You’ll find landscaping blogs on a variety of subjects like back yard design ideas with arbors, pergolas and gazebos, fireplaces and fire pits, outdoor fountains and landscape lighting. This blog site offers readers an opportunity to post their own back yard design ideas by uploading pictures and information. As a reader, you can show off your back yard, share photos and comments and ask questions about posts. It’s an interactive blog site that encourages readers to join in on the site – what fun!
27. Farmington Gardens
Farmington Gardens is a retail nursery and grower in Beaverton, Oregon where you can actually purchase plants and trees. Their landscaping blogs include wonderful articles on different types of blooming plants, shrubs and trees, colorful ground covers, easy care succulents, playful gardens and beautiful flower beds. You’ll also find practical posts on proper watering and irrigation, pruning, deadheading, garden cleanup and selecting proper plants for your landscape. This is a well-written blog that’s easy to follow and enjoyable to read.
28. Pith & Vigor
A stylish looking blog that appeals to beginners and professionals alike, Pith & Vigor has a great layout that’s easy to follow. Managed and written by a Boston-based writer, Rochelle Greayer, landscaping blogs are full of helpful information, design tips and garden advice. Launched in 2008, Pith & Vigor blogs have been voted the “best garden design blog” by the US Mouse and Trowel Awards in 2013. With inspiring photography, these blogs offer readers a variety of landscaping topics and accurate information. Blogs are well-written, organized and very educational. More like this please!
29. Black Forest Landscape
Black Forest Landscape offers readers blog topics about landscape design and installation that’s geared to DIY landscapers and gardeners along the front range of Colorado. You’ll find a variety of interesting articles on landscape design, hardscaping ideas, creating colorful borders and beds, selecting plants, shrubs and trees and specialty gardens. There are practical posts on irrigation techniques, proper planting and pruning, erosion control and outdoor pests and diseases. This blog provides a lot of information on a variety of landscaping topics.
30. Landscaping Videos
Landscaping Videos is a unique blog site with great landscaping articles and videos on a variety of topics. You’ll find interesting landscaping blogs on front yard and back yard landscaping, landscaping design ideas, creating curb appeal, as well as more practical subjects like mulching, pruning and watering. What makes this site different, is the videos on a variety of landscaping subjects that provide visual help and instructions. You can watch a video on building a retaining wall, creating a flagstone pathway, landscaping a hill or slope, how to cut flagstone and how to lay a patio with pavers. The landscaping videos are extremely helpful for beginning gardeners and DIY landscapers.
31. Cold Climate Gardening
If you live in a cold climate region with a short growing season and unpredictable temperatures in Spring and Fall, you’ll appreciate Cold Climate Gardening. This blog site offers detailed information on choosing plants, shrubs and trees for cold climates. It also covers the basics of extending the growing season through hoop tunnels and floating row covers that protect plants from freezing temperatures. You’ll find lots of interesting articles on planting bulbs, annuals and perennials, blooming plants and shrubs and selecting proper plants for cold climates.
32. Shawna Coronado
Shawna Coronado’s blog site offers good, practical information on gardening and landscaping ideas. You’ll find interesting articles on back yard makeovers, patio garden makeovers, colorful plants and ground covers, drought-resistant plants and succulents and drought-tolerant perennials. Landscaping blogs include wonderful, colorful photography that will inspire you to head out to your yard and get busy doing a little landscaping and gardening. You’ll also find links to books, videos, tutorials and garden tours that make this blog very enjoyable.
33. Seasonal Wisdom
Seasonal Wisdom is a great blog site that offers readers a world of gardening and landscaping information. You’ll find articles on seasonal planting, pruning, mulching, fertilizing and pest control, as well as practical “how to” articles on a variety of landscaping subjects. You’ll also find links to great garden tours and historic gardens and resources for landscaping and gardening books. This blog was a finalist in the Gardening Bloggers Hall of Fame for best garden and landscape blog.
34. Royal Horticultural Society
Although this is more an official website than a blog, you won’t find more complete information on gardening and landscaping than this! There’s just a wealth of information on flowers, plants, shrubs and trees and you can look up any plant to find out characteristics and care. The Royal Horticultural Society is in England, but much of the gardening and landscaping information is applicable to the climate and growing regions within the US.
35. Wild West Gardens
Mary Ann Newcomer, also known as the Idaho gardener, offers the world this tell it like it is blog, filled with tips, advice, stories and helpful landscaping and gardening information designed specifically for those people who call the potato state home. You’ll find interesting articles on unusual topics like fire wise landscaping with fire-resistant plants, shrubs and trees, planting autumn trees, container planting ideas and small space landscaping ideas. Wild West Gardens is full of really interesting and enjoyable blog articles. Be sure to put this one on your list of landscaping blogs to follow this year.
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