There's a vast amount of knowledge you need to learn before you can call yourself a master gardener, but part of the process of tending to a yard is trial and error. However, there are some places where making a mistake is harder to rectify.
When it comes to your backyard planting, positioning a plant in the wrong setting or choosing something that doesn't suit your hardiness zone can mean your green investments don't work out, but get something wrong with your "hardscaping" - basically anything to do with patios, walls, paths and everything, well, hard - and you're likely making a costly error.
