Backyard Decoration

Grass worn thin in a diagonal line from the back door to the fence. A vague muddy track that appears

The side of your house is not a hallway. It’s not a place to lay concrete and call it done.

Your backyard is not a storage unit for outdoor furniture you bought and then left out to season. It is

There’s a version of garden decorating that involves terracotta pots, a garden gnome, and a wind chime from a hardware

The planter you choose says more about your design sensibility than the plant inside it. Most people have this backwards.

The edge of a garden bed is where a yard either holds together or falls apart. It’s a three-inch strip

You’ve been staring at your front yard for three years. You know something is wrong with it. You just haven’t

Here is a number that should bother you: the average bunch of fresh herbs at a grocery store costs between

You bought a basil plant from the grocery store. It came in a plastic sleeve with a ribbon around it.

There is a fire pit sitting on bare grass in someone’s backyard right now. No base. No defined area around