Landscaping How To & DIY
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How to Grow Hebe Shrubs
These vibrant, versatile bushes can bring color and beauty to your garden all year long. Here’s what you need to know about planting, pruning, and propagating hebe shrubs.
How to Build a Fire Pit
DIY fire pit, anyone? Get all the materials you need for this project in a handy kit! Here are a few of our favorites!
How to Build a Cold Frame
Use rot-resistant planks and a salvaged window to build a protective box that extends the growing season. (Scroll past video players for written steps).
How to Install Outdoor Landscape Lighting
Heath Eastman demonstrates how to install landscape lighting along a garden path. Adding landscape lighting to a walkway or path can improve the look and experience of the area.
How To Kill a Tree Stump (2022 Guide)
From home remedies to professional solutions, here’s everything you need to know about getting rid of a tree stump in your yard.
How to Transform Your Landscape Using Existing Plants
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada uses a homeowner’s existing plants and a few additions to transform the look of a house’s foundation
Winter Plant Protection
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares his secrets for helping shrubs survive the cold winters.
How to Prune a Large Tree
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook and certified arborist Matt Foti show how to trim back a wildly overgrown willow
How to Build a Pergola
Building a classic shade arbor for the backyard
How to Test Soil Using a Kit
In this how-to video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook discusses the benefits of testing soil.
How to Revitalize a Landscape for Free
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada updates a landscape by moving around, dividing, and pruning the current plants in the yard.
All About Brick Garden Edging
Install clay pavers to form a tidy garden border to separate your lawn from plantings.
How to Plant a Cherry Tree
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada travels to Washington D.C. to help a homeowner select and plant a cherry tree for his house.
How to Build a Pondless Waterfall
Jenn Nawada, landscape designer for Ask This Old House, helps install a pondless waterfall in a backyard.
How to Install a Solar-Powered Fountain
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how to harness the sun's energy to power a backyard water feature.
How to Transplant Mature Trees
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook uses muscles and machines to safely move trees to new locations
How to Plant a Privacy Hedge
Learn how to a low-maintenance evergreen screen from tall arborvitae shrubs.
How to Build a DIY Trellis
Add dimension, color, and decoration to a blank space with a sturdy lattice trellis for climbing plants.
How to Prevent Weeds From Growing
Tips on how to keep weeds out of the garden, add the right amount of mulch over weeds, and 6 mistakes to avoid to keep your garden weed-free.
8 Most Common Types of Weeds in Grass
How do you remove lawn weeds? Read on to identify the most common types and the worst ones.
How to Trim Hedges
Five important tips to ensure your hedges are properly maintained and looking their best.
How to Cut Down a Tree Safely
Dropping and bucking a dead tree with This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook and chainsaw safety expert Tim Ard.
How to Build a Wood Retaining Wall
This Old House landscaping contractor Roger Cook shows how to construct a wood-timber retaining wall to create a play area.
The Privet Hedge
This iconic plant can serve as a green property marker, windscreen, and noise barrier.
13 Types of Evergreens to Plant for Privacy
A line of evergreen trees or shrubs can provide year-round seclusion even better than a fence. Here are some of the best and fastest-growing evergreens to consider planting in your yard.
How to Install a Sump Pump Dry Well
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how to collect discharge water from a basement sump pump.
How to Build a Garage Door Pergola
Use milled brackets and pressure-treated lumber to create an elegant canopy over your garage door.
How to Build a Copper Trellis
Transform plumbing tubing and fittings into an elegant garden accent
How to Prune Small Trees and Shrubs
Want to know how to trim your bushes and the best time to do it? Read on to learn more.
How to Anchor Hardscaping with Plants | This Old House: Live
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada helps out a friend with some plantings that work well with a winding, brick walkway.
How to Build a Raised Garden Bed | This Old House: Live
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada demonstrates how to build a raised garden bed in her backyard as part of This Old House: Live—an initiative providing daily programming and opportunities to connect with our experts during these challenging times.
How to Upgrade to a Smart Irrigation System
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada shares DIY Smarts tips when she travels to Orlando to upgrade an irrigation system.
How to Prune Spruce Trees
Though outdoor temperatures may not be ideal for yard work, in most areas March is prime time to prune common backyard conifers, using the end-of-winter dormant period as a window of opportunity to stimulate growth. Here’s how