by Ilona Erwin | Autumn, Featured Articles, Garden Design Ideas
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 changing foliage that delights our eye. Even the bountiful blooms of chrysanthemums in their... 
by Ilona Erwin | Autumn, Butterfly Garden, Garden perennials
An unfortunate mistake has lead to the writing of this plant profile. I had early-on grown Hardy Ageratum (AKA Blue Mistflower, recently officially labeled ‘Conoclinium coelestinum’) from a start my dad had given me. It survived well in a poor area of the... 
by Ilona Erwin | Garden Style, Landscape Design Know-How
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... 
by Ilona Erwin | Featured Articles, interesting facts, Landscape Design Know-How
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... 
by Ilona Erwin | Garden Design Ideas, Small flowering bulbs, Spring, tulips
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. Tulipa polychroma is an example of the delicacy of the flower and form of the species class. Grown in pots makes them... 
