http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com Landscaping And Garden Design Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:49:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Added a coat of black paint to the inside of 'Overdale Tunnel' today. I wanted to do this while it is still possible to reach without damaging any of the work already done. The portal at the 'Dalesmouth viaduct end of the tunnel got a coat of paint first. I've painted ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/overdale-tunnel-%e2%80%93-let-there-be-dark/ Burying dripline 1, originally uploaded by EndlessRemodel. Most of our work in the last couple months has actually been on the landscaping. As well as pulling up the grass, I used the existing sprinkler valves, and added filters and pressure regulators, to turn two zones into the source for a ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/burying-dripline/ It  has been a couple days since I have last posted, so here it goes. I have had a small little victory with this plant, Ruellia brittoniana, Mexican Petunia, that I transplanted the second week of June, it had been falling all around and wasn't blooming.  Today however, it finally produced ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/blooms-around-the-yard/ Full moon above your heads, fragrant flowers around you and the sound of wind chimes complete a perfectly romantic evening for lovers. This dream night garden gives you and your partner a place to spend dinner dates that aren't costly but undoubtedly romantic. Moon gardens are designed to give pleasure for ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/landscpaing-improvements-enchanting-evening-gardens/ Check this keyhole garden video out that was posted earlier on the Panama Yahoo Gardening Group. Looks excellent for areas which are extremely difficult to work like Taboga Island which can be very rocky and with poor soil. Cynthia www.cerritotropicalpanama.com http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/gardening-in-tough-locations-different-approach-useful-for-areas-of-panama/ A garden portal, or in simple layman's terms your garden gate, can set the artistic tone to your property.  Garden gates should be one of the first things you consider when putting together a landscape design.  Your garden gate is really an outdoor doorway adding a statement to your fence.  You ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/a-garden-gate-by-any-other-name-is-a-portal/ Nothing coming out of the garden tastes better than a vine-ripened tomato. Supermarket tomatoes are usually genetically-engineered to be red and bounce off a wall without bruising so only heavy salting will get a taste - and you know what that does to your body. Raising tomatoes is not hard if ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/tomato-cages/ Todays session has carried on from the last by adding reinforcement to the hill structure to give it more integrity. Last time I outlined the shape of the hill, but this is quite flimsy as it is. Now I am reinforcing this with what I call the 'eggbox' technique. Besides adding ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/reinforcing-the-hill-landscape-so-far/ You know how they say that a man's home is like his "castle". Well, here in Kuching, increasingly we are seeing more folks landscaping not only their gardens but also the surrounding exterior of their homes. In fact, in certain Green Heights area, you will be greeted by well designed and ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/a-man-and-his-castle/ The hill construction above 'Overdale Tunnel' continued to take shape today. Starting at the 'Overdale Quarry' end of the tunnel and working out from the tunnel portal, which I did last time, two basic cross-section pieces are glued in place first. The shape is then developed as contoured ribs are added to ... http://www.hoosierhillsinc.com/landscaping-news/more-hill-shaping-at-overdale-tunnel/