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Spring means it’s time to refresh your outdoor space. Like interior design, landscaping can reflect your personal style, from free-flowing, native plants to neatly trimmed hedges. Whether you have a tiny garden, a roomy patio, or a large lawn to work with, you can create cool spaces to shift your daily routine outdoors, from morning yoga on the deck to BBQ dinners in the backyard. Get inspired and find all you need for yard prep at Walmart. 

Get the right gardening gear

To plant flowers and shrubs, you’re going to need tools for digging, weeding, and pruning, among other tasks. Get the basics bundled in a convenient tote, including heavy-duty gloves for getting your hands dirty — without totally destroying your nails. 

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

Skip the back-breaking work

Minimize the heavy-lifting and maneuver bags of soil from your car to the yard or landscaping cuttings to the curb for collection with a fun little wheelbarrow. The lightweight, ergonomic design can take on up to 300 pounds.

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

Plant fragrant herbs and flowers

In a homegrown veggie patch, pleasant-smelling herbs like sweet mint, flat parsley, lavender, and rosemary are useful and visually appealing. Snap off sprigs to make recipes or garnish cocktails. Or, take your farming game up a notch with sweet and crunchy green bell pepper plants. 

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

Set up a modern bird feeder

Birdwatching has gained traction in our nature-starved lives and studies have found watching and feeding birds can actually lower stress levels. Invite feathered friends with a brightly colored feeder (fun fact: hummingbirds love red).

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

Add energy-efficient night lights

Solar-powered, LED stake lights are incredibly cool to begin with. After loading up on sunshine, they shine brightly until morning to illuminate walkways and paths and are super-easy to install. Add a fiber optic butterfly on top and your yard is basically a fairy tale. 

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

Upgrade to an e-mower

Still pushing around a gas-guzzling lawn mower? A lithium-ion battery-powered lawn mower has a push-button start and long-lasting brushless technology. Telescoping and folding handles make it easy to modify for lawn work and compact to store.

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

Create an outdoor lounge

For an easy, outdoor chill-out zone, start with a wicker chair designed for the outdoors with a rust-resistant metal frame. Settle into comfy seat cushions to read, stream a movie, or sip a cool beer under the stars. 

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

Throw down a rug

Make your deck easy on bare feet with a weather-resistant, multicolored outdoor rug. An indoor-outdoor rug easily transforms a drab sunroom into a bright one or turns a patio space into an outdoor room for socially distanced gatherings.

Refresh your outdoor space with gardening gear and cool yard accessories

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