Do you need some professional assistance to design your gardens and landscape plans?

Please visit my garden design blog: www.davidpearling.blogspot.com right after the first of the year.

I will begin posting a series of short "lesson" to help you. These are ideas that I learned both in college and in more than 20 years in the business.

Check in the week of January 4, 2010.

Please visit my blog, www.davidpearling.blogspot.com. I have posted ideas for you for some outdoor rooms that I hope you find helpful. One is for a stone patio that uses natural stepping stones that can easily be completed in half a day.

The other shows how you can dramatically transform your front entry with the addition of a "greeting pad."

Any comments or questions you have are welcome. You can email me at dpearl1@ hotmail.com.

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I have posted some pics and some ideas about designing and installing your own brick patio. It's not too hard with some planning and preparation. Visit davidpearling.blogspot.com.

On my blog at www.davidpearling.blogspot.com I have created some links to some of my favorite gardening websites. All are from acknowledged experts in gardening and garden design. You can link to P. Allen Smith who is a noted TV personality. Also find Mike Nowak's website. Mike has hosted a radio program about for several years in the Chicago area.

Please visit my garden design blog at www.davidpearling.blogspot.com. I have posted my five key points about designing gardens. I have learned and practiced these concepts for more than 15 years in the garden design and landscape contracting business. Naturally, I will value any questions or comments you have.