Over the past several months, I've received questions prompting me to write about basic landscape design principles. I see many landscape designs that, with a little help, could be outstanding. Here ...

Jeffrey Erb of Jeffrey Erb Landscape Design, whose firm has handled terraces, patios, and backyards of all shapes and sizes throughout the city. The assignment: A thin, bare-dirt brownstone lot, about ...

Landscaping is an art and a science, requiring both observation and design skills. A good landscaper understands the elements of nature and construction, blending all of the diverse elements, the ...

To get some clues we talked to seven Quad-City area landscapers, a Scott County Master gardener, and a university horticulture instructor. Their answers are not the end-all of landscape design. But ...