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10 Tips To Design A Front Yard Foundation Planting
aced with an empty front yard foundation space? Here are tips to add pizazz to your public landscape space and happily marry the house to the rest of your property. 1 Determine house style…
Victorian Garden Essential Elements and Flower Varieties
Victorian times were full of plant discovery, of amateur scientific curiosity- and collection of curiosities itself. The Victorian gardens at home and in public reflected this. Accordingly numerous specimens, carpet beds, and various containers and statuary…
How to Decide if an English Cottage Garden Is Right for You
English cottage garden style is not for everyone. Find out whether this charming look is for you—and whether to modify it or forego it altogether. By learning more about this quintessential English garden style you can decide whether to create your garden in this…
Small Shrubs For Front Yard Landscaping
An array of evergreen and deciduous shrubbery that will keep their proper perimeters in your landscape. Dwarf or small sized bushes for a front yard.
Using Autumn Flowers in Containers
Fall for Creative Containers Bring beautiful container creations to the end of the season, don’t give up after summer! Autumn blooming flowers are sturdy enough to take some cold temperatures, and they can last longer in the season than you might expect. Don’t leave…
Victorian Ladies and Their Favorite Flowers
Womanly Pursuits The Flower Arrangement by Otto ScholdererLilacs, Peonies, Roses, and Freesias feature in this painting. In the restricted world of the Victorians, woman had a clearly outlined mode of proper avocations and duties. Thankfully, flowers featured in many…
I Wish My Garden Looked Like That
Have you ever found yourself coming home after a visit to a lovely garden, and saying “I wish my garden looked like that”? I have, too. The trouble with such wishful thinking is that what made a particular look so attractive and desirable is not necessarily what you…
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Bright Ideas For Colorful Fall Foliage
Inevitably, as seasons change we see, and lust for, the color focus that picture perfect plantings of fall provide. In Autumn, without a doubt, it is the rich pigment of colorful changing foliage that delights our eye. Even the bountiful blooms of chrysanthemums in…
Blue Mistflower, Eupatorium Coelestinum for Late Summer and Early Fall Bloom
An unfortunate mistake has lead to the writing of this plant profile. From a start my dad had given me, I had early-on grown Hardy Ageratum (AKA Blue Mistflower, recently officially labeled ‘Conoclinium coelestinum’). It survived well in a poor area of the garden…
Learn From The Experts: Piet Oudolf
Garden Expert About Piet Oudolf “The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.” New American Garden Style The Big Picture I like to connect people with the processes of their own lives. What it takes humans a lifetime to experience, a plant will…
Learn From the Experts: Vita Sackville-West
Garden Expert About Vita Sackville-West the strictest formality of design, with the maximum informality in planting English Garden Style English Garden Maven -Rooms and White Gardens If you grow a ‘White Garden, ‘Moon Garden’, or plan on it, you have Sackville-West to…
Specie Tulips Are Picture-Perfect in Miniature Gardens
Discover Wildling Tulips The specie tulips have a charm all their own, with the small size, but tough constitution of plants that grow in the wild. The Originals You might think you know this flowering bulb from Holland. After planting lily-flowered, Darwin Hybrids,…
Premiere Garden Ornament: a Lovely Bird Bath
Do You Have Room for a Bird Bath? A bird bath is more than a garden ornament, it is an important accessory for the birds which visit your garden. They need access to water not only for drinking but for cooling off in the summer heat. I don’t like to see yard ornaments…
Attract and Nurture Butterflies in a Sunny Garden
A circle of sunshine and flowers to attract a mob of butterflies is dream for many of us. We can imagine ourselves stretched out comfortably in a lawn chair, drink in hand, while entertained by graceful fluttering wings in jeweled colors visit the bright flower beds….
Simple but Stunning Containers
Sometimes Less Really IS More While a container recipe with a range of plant material can be amazingly beautiful, there are times we simply want the flower statement to be powerful and simple. This can give a stunning effect. Especially true when planters are viewed…
Ideas From a French Garden
If you admire French style (and you should), a video tour of a French garden presents a slew of ideas to create pleasing features in our own home places. I present a soupçon of fascinating French garden moments to inspire your landscape planning. (The Aussie Garden…
New: Fairy Garden Terrarium Ideas
Try Fairy Garden Terrarium Ideas One of the benefits of creating your Fairy garden inside a terrarium environment is the ease of care. Plants in the greenhouse-like conditions need very little watering. Plus the look of gardens in glass are quite other worldly for…
Milkweed Makes Mainstream (Asclepsias Species)
Once, Asclepsias syriaca, or Milkweed as it is commonly known, was a field plant of waste or fallow ground. A weed of wild and unkempt places which delighted only children who were fascinated by the silky down of the open boat-shaped pods. Now, with the decline of the…
Spring Container of Bulbs
View the video for: Pretty effects for earliest container plantings: spring bulbs. One thing I would add to the information is that in Ohio it would be important to store the container in a frost free area. Somewhere the bulbs would get chilled, but not frozen…
Why Homeowners Should Be Familiar with Garden Design
Just as the inside of a building needs a design plan and benefits from a sense of style, so does does the property around it. This is an important reason why homeowners should be familiar with good garden design. Style and design aren’t just a pretty face for a…
Rethink Your Front Yard
It is almost September, and in my neck of the woods that means time for lawn chores …like seeding, feeding, and chemical weeding. If lawns look very bad after this summer’s drought, some might say you should start from scratch. Let’s look at that idea, but with a…
Prairie Vs. Meadow, Which One Works In Your Landscape?
They have similarities, but are obviously different. What makes the vital divide between the two, and what if we would like to plant one, or the facsimile of one in our garden? First, The Provenance Prairies Prairies are grasslands, complete…
How To Make a Luminous White Garden
Catching Moonlight I think of a white garden as primarily one that is grown in a part shade nook of a garden, but so many beautiful white flowers are full sun lovers. While very lovely during the day, such a garden would really some into its own after dark, catching…
Vibrant Victorian House Cutting Garden Flowers
lower arranging was first recognized as an art form in the nineteenth century. Decorating the home with flower arrangements was considered an accomplishment that all young ladies should acquire. It was one…
Examples Of Gorgeous Hardscaping
Ideas and inspirations for a range of hardscaped permant garden features.
Benches in the Garden
Take a seat – Benches in the garden by Emma Bond Benches or garden seats are an important element in a garden. Somewhere to rest, to relax, to socialise, or to simply have a quick sit-down while you admire your hard work. Without them the garden becomes a place you…
Loropetalum in Atlanta: a Superlative Guide to Growing Chinese Fringe Flower in the Peach State
Atlanta gardeners, if you’re looking for a showstopping, low-maintenance shrub that delivers year-round color, look no further than Loropetalum (Loropetalum chinense) — commonly known as Chinese fringe flower. With its cascading fringe-like blooms, stunning purple…
Tops Shrubs To Grow In Atlanta
With the idea of moving into the Atlanta area, a task I’m looking forward to is learning about plants for landscaping an urban or suburban yard in Zone 7b. Already familiar with azaleas, it is time to discover the wide range of wonderful plant material that thrives in…
10 Tips To Design A Front Yard Foundation Planting
aced with an empty front yard foundation space? Here are tips to add pizazz to your public landscape space and happily marry the house to the rest of your property. 1 Determine house style…
Read more1. Cumulus humulis – has little vertical development
2. Cumulus congestus – is a towering cumulus
3. Cumulonimbus (Cb) – has a great deal of vertical development, also known as thunderstorm clouds
Victorian Garden Essential Elements and Flower Varieties
Victorian times were full of plant discovery, of amateur scientific curiosity- and collection of curiosities itself. The Victorian gardens at home and in public reflected this. Accordingly numerous specimens, carpet beds, and various containers and statuary…
Kaufmanniana and Greigii Tulips Light Up Spring
Bring the big blooms and perennial qualities of Kaufmanniana and Greigii tulips into your home landscape. Their vibrant colors make these two types of specie tulips must-haves for the spring garden. Variegated Foliage Tulips The Kaufmanniana and Greigii divisions of…
How to Decide if an English Cottage Garden Is Right for You
English cottage garden style is not for everyone. Find out whether this charming look is for you—and whether to modify it or forego it altogether. By learning more about this quintessential English garden style you can decide whether to create your garden in this…
Small Shrubs For Front Yard Landscaping
An array of evergreen and deciduous shrubbery that will keep their proper perimeters in your landscape. Dwarf or small sized bushes for a front yard.
Fattoush Salad, An Herbal Treat
Mediterranean flavors are added to the usual salad ingredients to create something special that may be new to you. (Or may be a favorite, if you happen to be Lebanese.) This Middle Eastern chopped salad combines the exotic with the familiar and uses fresh herbs from…