How to design a rock garden

Live somewhere dry? Want to save water? Just want to mix it up a little in the garden? Have you considered installing a rock garden? Rock gardens can make great DIY projects to spruce up the garden whether you want to change the look and feel or prepare your home for sale and give it a fresher look to appeal to potential buyers.
How to design a rock garden 

Don't buy birdseed -- grow it

Have you priced birdseed lately? It’s expensive.
 A family could enjoy some nice dinners for what it costs to fill backyard bird feeders. Think of it this way. In one city in the Southeast, a 50-pound bag of black oil sunflower seed cost $64.99. At a grocery store several doors away, that would buy eight 12-ounce rib-eye steaks ($7.99 a pound).
Don't buy birdseed -- grow it

The irresistible allure of a garden train

It all started 45 years ago, when Drummond Randall took his three-and-a-half-year-old son for a day out on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, on the South coast. 
"I remember very clearly what happened when we got home," recalls Drummond. "My son turned to me and said, 'Dad, are you going to build me a locomotive?'" The answer was yes.

The irresistible allure of a garden train