Creating a beautiful boulevard garden enhances your home and reduces run-off and pollution. Here are some tips for boulevard beauty.

What to Plant in your Boulevard – Project Food Forest

We all have challenging areas in our landscapes, but perhaps one of the toughest is the proverbial “hellstrip”, that narrow planting bed sandwiched between the road and the sidewalk. To…

Inspiration Photos Found On Pinterest Guys, did you know that what I have been referring to as a “boulevard garden” is much more commonly known as a “HELLSTRIP”? Cause I had no idea, until I started googling around looking for inspiration for my much more mild mannered “boulevard garden”. I realize now that “hellstrip” is a very fitting name (plus it sounds pretty badass), it describes that little patch between the sidewalk in the street where nothing grows. Here in snowy Minnesota our…

Hey Guys! So if you’ve been following along with the blog you may remember last year when I overhauled the boulevard garden. I had originally planted the garden in 2010, but I had no idea what I was getting into. The garden was not thriving and poorly organized. At the beginning of last summer I came up with a new boulevard plan and began ripping out the old garden, leaving what worked but adding a lot of new plants. The boulevard garden has been my biggest gardening challenge – a definite…

Plant Your Hellstrip (aka get rid of grass + infiltrate stormwater)

Boulevard plantings can enhance curb appeal and benefit the environment.

Gardens and decorative landscapes are easily one of the most popular choices for homes and businesses looking to spruce up their property’s curb appeal.