Try simple solutions for landscape challenges

Homeowners have always enjoyed looking out over their own well-manicured garden or landscape. Yet, creating such a pleasant atmosphere on one's property can often become a difficult experience, whether updating a landscape's design or starting from scratch with a new installation project.

When undertaking a challenging garden or landscape task, completing the project successfully can be accomplished with simple solutions to three of the most common landscape issues facing homeowners. Hardworking plant breeders and growers like Novalis Plants that Work are turning out innovative new plant genetics and an ever-growing, wide array of plant offerings that solve these common landscape challenges.

Problem: What to do with unusual, small-scale areas of the garden.

Solution: Plantings for small spaces and special places.

Whether rooftop gardens, pathways, walkways, patios, rock gardens, water gardens, terraces, cracks, or crevices, accent plantings embellish the garden area and add life, color, texture, detail, and harmony as well as a natural appearance to the landscape.

Incorporating these kinds of plants into a creative garden design for areas that are small or unusual in shape serves as garnish, the final decorative touch to the space. "Some cities are giving tax incentives to people willing to install rooftop gardens because it cuts down on the need for air conditioning and heating," says Guy. "So, Novalis is growing plant material such as drought-tolerant groundcovers, little Hens and Chicks, and sedums from Mexico that gardeners seem to love having planted in these tiny places and distinctive applications." Home gardeners can choose from a diverse palette of varying color and foliage with the Plants that Work in Nooks & Crannies line when creating their own artistic garden accents.

Problem: Short-lived, feeble annuals that will not last.

Solution: Finer, genetically superior, color bedding plantings.

When used in containers, garden beds and borders, annual color varieties are a bright, rich and vibrant outdoor design component.

Yet, numerous annual plant selections cannot survive the first chilly night or burst of extended warmth that many regions of the country are experiencing from frequent spells of environmental instability.

Ensuring plant selections for the lawn and garden stem from professional growers who ensure that each new variety provides superior-performing, garden-worthy, annual color plants with heat and cold tolerance.

To learn more about plants and gardening tips, log onto www. plantsthatwork. com.

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