Outdoor Living Design Tips for Wildlife Photographers
Your outdoor living space should be a comfortable area to enjoy nature and observe animals in their natural habitat. However, the décor and landscape design are essential considerations for all wildlife photographers. Choose the wrong plants or...
Seasonal Landscaping Ideas for Driveways
Landscaping around driveways can help homeowners create a welcoming environment near one of their property's most essential amenities. Hardscaping, mulch, artificial turf – they're all feasible options. But which elements look best on your lawn...
Signs Your Driveway Needs Repairing ASAP
Your driveway welcomes guests with a clean and safe place to park. It leads visitors to your front door, creating a long-lasting first impression of your home’s value. So, what is your driveway saying...
Outdoor Living - Create a Pet-Friendly Outdoor Space
Outdoor living spaces are not just a luxury for homeowners — it's a welcoming, relaxing, and playful area where you and your pets can unwind and soak up the surrounding nature. Designing a pet-friendly yard...
Create a Welcoming Entrance: Everything Driveways
Your home's entrance is guests' and visitors' ultimate first impression of your home before they enter it. Not only does a beautifully designed and installed driveway enhance your home's curb appeal...
Seamlessly Blend Hardscaping and Artificial Turf Into Your Outdoor Space
Are you planning to landscape your yard? While leafy landscaping is important, you can't underestimate hardscaping. Hardscaping is the non-living element of landscaping that includes bricks...
How to Create Outdoor Entertainment Zones: Hardscaping Ideas for Hosting This Summer
As the warm breeze fills the air and the sun graces your backyard, its the perfect time to transform your outdoor space into a haven for hosting unforgettable gatherings. Whether planning a summer barbecue...
Turf Wars: Artificial Turf, Sod, or Natural Grown Grass?
A new lawn enhances the overall landscape of your home and yard, elevating the presentation of the exterior. Depending on the aesthetic you’re going for and your space, certain types of lawns will be more beneficial to work with. With so many options to choose from, this blog will help to narrow down which choices of grass to explore.
Best Landscaping Installations of 2023
First-time homeowners, revampers, and design-savvy investors alike are always searching for the newest, elevated, and trendy methods to contribute to their home projects. A project as small as lining...
Creating Your Outdoor Oasis
Nothing is better than a relaxing vacation-like setting that is only a few steps away. An outdoor patio or backyard is the perfect living space to not only add a new, valuable feature to your home. More than that, by creating a serene oasis that is readily accessible, homeowners can spend more time with family, host special events, or relax after a long day. As summer approaches, investing in an outdoor living space will welcome new ideas and designs to elevate the look and feel of your home.
100% Natural Facts on Artificial Turf
Landscaping is all about life, right? So we bring in plants and help them grow. Well, our readers are smart enough to know that landscaping is also about hardscaping and outdoor living. But what about when you want the easy maintenance of hardscaping combined with the appearance of living plants?
Retaining Walls
Outdoor living spaces are for just - outdoor living! And research has backed up, again and again, that spending time outdoors is good for our mental, psychological, and cardiovascular health...
Smart Tips for Better Water Management
There's a lot in life that we can't control. Your landscape falls in a grey area. You have some control over it, and it's the final product, but a lot of the factors that affect it are outside of your sphere of influence...
Bringing the Heat with Fire Pits
When it comes to outdoor gatherings, there are many ways to have a great time. Some of us love a backyard barbeque, whether cheap hot dogs or expensive steaks. For many, it's a pool party or drinks on the terrace, and others will take just about any excuse to sit outside and enjoy a warm evening with cool friends...
Everything Your Flowerbeds Need to Shine
Here come those May flowers we were promised! They’re truly one of the beautiful joys of Spring. Many homeowners who don’t spend a lot of time thinking about their landscaping for most of the year still take a moment to savor the view or, you know, stop and smell them...
The Fundamentals of a Fun Landscape
In your backyard, every detail matters. You focus on ensuring you don't have a patch of lawn that looks different from the rest due to overgrowth or dead grass. You monitor the health of every flower and trim and prune each tree to perfection...
Let’s Meet Your Perfect Mulch Match!
Landscaping is walking the line between enjoying nature and adjusting it. You could call it domestication, but as with domesticating anything wild, it's not easy. Mulch is our natural answer to so many problems nature hands us as we attempt to make our landscape pretty...
Whetting the Appetite with Water Features
Modern landscaping is the marriage of contemporary living and the natural world. Southern Love aims to create harmony between your home and landscaping, harnessing it for your purposes while nurturing it back. So it stands to reason that we also harness the elements for your enjoyment and nurturing purposes...
Sod the Lawn You're With
Sometimes when people think “landscaping,” they think “lawn mowing.” It makes sense from an experiential perspective. For many, mowing the lawn is the part of landscaping they do themselves or one of the first chores they ever took on, and for everyone, lawn mowing is the most frequent landscaping task...
Clean Up Before Your Landscape Glow Up
Spring is in the air! The birds are chirping, and the bees and lawnmowers are buzzing. And you’re saying to yourself, “It’s time to pretty up my land with some vivid flowers or tasty tomatoes!” But before you start your Spring landscape glow-up, Southern Love wants to help you with your Spring cleanup to prepare the land for all the wonderful things coming...