The GardenOwl Audits
Deep-dive diagnostics, design critiques, and visual master plans to solve your toughest landscape challenges.
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Stop Crushing Your Drainage Pipes: How to Properly Daylight a Downspout
Is your lawnmower destroying your shallow drainage pipes? Learn how to replace crushed thin-wall plastic with Schedule 40 PVC and build a beautiful rock basin.
Stop the Mulch Avalanche: How to Edge and Plant a Sloped Yard
Tired of mulch washing down your sloped yard? Learn how to ditch plastic edging, cut a natural spade edge, and fix scattered planting beds for good.
Why Your Side Yard Floods (And Why a French Drain Won't Fix It)
Is your narrow side yard a muddy swamp after every rain? Learn why skipping gutters causes flooding, why French drains fail here, and how to fix it for good.
Why Planting Right Against Your Patio is a Trap (And How to Fix It)
Stop planting shrubs directly against your concrete patio. Learn how to size landscape beds, fix drowning cedars, and why landscape fabric is killing your trees.
Why Landscape Fabric Under Gravel is a Trap (And How to Fix a Flooded Foundation Bed)
Thinking of putting landscape fabric under decorative rock? Stop. Learn why geotextiles ruin drainage, cause weeds, and how to properly grade a foundation bed.
Why Your House Looks Like a Floating Box (And How to Anchor a Sloped Yard)
Learn how to fix the Floating Facade Syndrome on a sloped yard using terraced retaining walls, proper drainage, and sweeping evergreen masses.