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Tips for Planning Your Front Yard Landscape

Lacking creativity when it comes to landscape design – particularly in your front yard – will make your house wither away into the background like uncared for plants.  If you’re...

Choosing the Right Plants for Your Garden, From Your Baltimore Landscaper

Gardens are beautiful and bring light and life into any space. At the same time, they also take work, care and attention. Sometimes in our busy lives, we do not...

Outdoor Lighting Fun Facts from your Baltimore, Maryland Hardscaper

Hey Maryland, how much landscape lighting do you have around your Maryland/D.C. home or residence? You need a sufficient amount of landscape lighting to fully enjoy the features of your...

The Benefits to Installing Outdoor Lighting Systems

We all sleep a little better at night knowing that our house is safe and secure, which is why we are here to share some illuminating information on how outdoor...

Landscaping To Help Boost Your Curb Appeal

Potential home buyers form their first impression of a home from its curb appeal. Yet often a home’s outdoor landscaping is overlooked, or underdone, in the preparation for the sales...

July Mailer

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A Garden That’s Pet-Friendly

Did you know that it is possible to have both a beautiful garden and a happy dog? Just make sure your landscaping matches your pet’s habits and the aesthetics of...

Adding A Fire Pit To Your Backyard

The summer is officially here, that means backyard BBQ’s and spending time outside. What better way to enjoy some time outside than with a fire pit and roasting some s’mores...

Urban Gardens, Who Are We?

Urban Gardens is a multidisciplinary landscape design/build firm and retail nursery that serves the greater Baltimore area. At Urban Gardens, you can expect to find landscape designers, horticulturists and gardeners...

Watering Guidelines

It’s up to you to keep your plants alive and thriving. Urban Gardens provides a one-year guarantee on plantings supplied and installed by us, with exceptions noted in our Conditions...

How to Kill a Tree or, Tree Care 101

Photo/Illustration: Beverly Colgan No one sets out to subject their tree to a slow and painful death. But many of the “helpful” things we do to our trees are actually...

Trees That Please

Surefire investments in some standout varieties When choosing a tree, it’s important to make sure it is a four-season performer.   And a tree should be largely pest- and disease-free...