Quotes About Landscaping

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

Not just the industrial farming but the sprawl, the sprawl, the sprawl. Low-density development is the worst. And SUVs everywhere, snowmobiles everywhere, Jet Skis everywhere, ATVs everywhere, two-acre lawns everywhere. The goddamned green monospecific chemical-drenched lawns.

mechanisms for dealing with extremely sandy, excessively well-drained soils or rocky, cold soils in which moisture is limited for months at a time. Try alfalfa, aloe, artichokes, asparagus, blue hibiscus, chives, columbine, eucalyptus, garlic, germander, lamb's ear, lavender, ornamental grasses, prairie turnip, rosemary, sage, sedum, shrub roses, thyme, yarrow, yucca, and verbena.

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

I was landscaping not too long ago, so I'm extremely grateful for the people supporting me in wrestling. Not that landscaping is terrible, but I'd rather be suplexing and punching people.

Injecting CO2 into an underground reservoir would certainly change the local environment and thus affect the organisms that live there. Some will thrive, and others will suffer. While we should minimize such impacts, they cannot be avoided completely. The same happens when one plows a field, builds a house or a road, or waters a lawn.

The city had been founded on the sound principles of religious tolerance, a free press, and good landscaping, by William Penn—a man who grew tree saplings in bathtubs, and who had imagined his metropolis as a great nursery of both plants and ideas.

You don't need a great green thumb in order to make something look nice. A lot of times, it's just about cleaning up the weeds and trimming back the shrubs.

We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by appointment as part of the National Gardens Scheme.

Lawns, it seems to me, are against nature, barren and often threadbare - the enemy of a good garden. For the same trouble as mowing, you could have a year's vegetables: runner beans, cauliflowers and cabbages, mixed with pinks and peonies, shirley poppies and delphiniums; wouldn't that beautify the land and save us from the garden terrorism that prevails?

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

If our landscaping choices can rebuild populations of a butterfly thought to be extinct without listing it under the Endangered Species Act and without investing one dime of limited conservation funds—that is, without even trying—imagine what we can do if we include conservation as one of the goals of our gardens.

Would you invest in landscaping if you knew your property values were going to keep declining? Maybe it's better to spend your money on an escape pod with leather seats and a Bluetooth system.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will Scarlet, Wanderin' Wind, Golden Wings

Soil drainage is particularly important, but even that can be corrected, either with tiling or raised beds.

ABNODATION  (ABNODA'TION)   n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.

Say no to asphalt!

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

I'm really into gardening.

One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

I graduated college and moved back home, started helping my dad, did landscaping for a living.

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.