Welcome
From the Ground Up: An Ohio Garden
Creating your own landscape
This gardening site deals mainly with designing and maintaining a home garden. If you need detailed information on particular plants I have ‘Plant Highlight‘ pages, with description, growing requirements, and fun facts.
Growing calm in the garden:
“There is peace with a garden, a peace so deep and calm.
That when the heart is troubled, It’s like a soothing balm.
…So everyone tend your garden, its beauty to increase.
For in it you will find solace, and in it you will find peace
The purpose of this site:
Creating your dream of what your home garden should be, in terms of use, style, and landscaping. All parts of the site are geared towards sharing my experience of the joy of gardening with you.
If you are building a garden, and improving your landscape, get some good garden reference books for quickly locating plant “how-to”. My Bookshelf and the hand picked choices in the Garden Sundries are places you might want to start.
Your home and all the extensions of it, whether the yard or your houseplants, influence your feeling of well being and that of those around you. Sometimes it is surprising how much! When I gardened in the city I would have people stop by to mention the effect my garden had on their enjoyment of the day. I know I am blessed whenever I see a bright patch of flowers or a even a pretty single flower unexpectedly announcing its loveliness. I hope this site is of some use to help you surround your self with a little more beauty and appreciation of creation.
“winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” ~Stanley Horowitz
The newest pages show up in the sidebar, Iris! Updated in other parts of the site are ‘Autumn Garden Tips‘ and ‘Birds in Your Garden‘. The Cottage Garden Style Series has been very popular, since so many like this nostalgic and romantic look. Look at the monthly calender for garden tips.
The site has three main parts: Here, where all the newest articles arrive, is the hub of information, The Gazebo is a portal to news pertaining to gardening and my collection of the best garden links- it takes a back seat right now, but I have great plans for that part of the site! I also have articles on many of the basic topics of garden design, off-site is my Garden Blog, with connection to the garden blogging community and the regular journaling of what happens in my own garden. I guess that is about it for giving you some ideas on navigating around.
For now, all my garden links are on the portal part of the site. I hope for this to be a comprehensive set of links and in the future will have a links page for my personal favorites as I had on the site originally. There are so many resources online for the gardener now, it is really amazing. I added a custom search for gardeners, GreenGarden search, try it!
Site Features:
Iris: Perennial Stalwart
Read my blog! On Blogspot: Ilona’s Garden Journal
It is summertime, and that means you should “Mulch the Garden“.
This ‘welcome’ page gets tweaked quite often, but eventually the ‘news’ page will have updates so that I don’t have to re-edit this one as often (I’ll post about it here). changes are happening all the time!
The Garden Gazebo is dedicated to newsworthy snippets of topics such as All American Selections for the year, a better way to compost, or an interesting natural pest control. There will be polls that change over time, and the master list of gardening links. It is worth a visit, and will have seasonal updates.
Explore the Garden : here or other parts of the site listed below
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