A Gallery of Best Posts
Browse through this gallery selection of some of the best, most interesting posts. A way to sample everything from beginner’s info to advanced master gardening techniques, to help you discover some of the exciting gardening topics available on this site.
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…
Grow Spectacular Clematis This Year
This is something of a guide to choosing some spectacular Clematis varieties, and tips on how to grow them well. For further, detailed information on planting or pruning them, Follow links to other pages on this site about the showy, clambering Clematis Big Beautiful…
5 Outstanding Shrubs for Small Spaces
Planning A Small Garden: Shrubs You Will Love What makes a shrub qualify as “best small shrub” for your garden? Compact dimensions, for sure, but to add that “certain something”, exciting bloom or all season interest certainly factors into the equation. For those who…
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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…
Growing the Best Ornamental Bushes with Berries
Most of thoughts about ornamental bushes gravitate towards those which bloom in the spring. We are in love with the flowers of spring, their fragrance and color. Some shrubs are even iconic of the beginning of our gardening season: lilacs, forsythias, witch hazels….
20 Easy-to-grow Perennials to Multiply by Division
If you need more perennial plants, but must curtail your budget, learning to multiply plants that thrive with division is the answer for you. Easy to grow perennials are simple to divide, and often require this procedure every few years. Some can be divided into many…
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…
Ephemerals in the Garden
Some of my flower favorites are ephemeral plants -fleeting flowers which grace a garden and then disappear into the ground, waiting until the next year. Oriental poppies, Bleeding Hearts, Virginia Bluebells, Wildflowers of all sorts are among the numbers of perennials…
The Patience of Good Gardening
…good gardening means patience and dogged determination. There must be many failures and losses, but by always pushing on there will also be the reward of success. (Gertrude Jekyll, 1925)
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…
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…
Top Tips for Planting Trees
Why People Plant Trees Reasons to plant trees are sometimes the same used to procrastinate tree planting. It all boils down to time and expense. If you are looking for a way to improve the value of your property, and making the yard a place for the family to enjoy,…
How To Shop For Flower Bulbs, 10 Quick Tips
Step right up to bins and shelves full of Dutch imported flowering wonder, it’s time to choose colorful spring blooms.If you wish to make the most of your buying choices, check out these flower bulb tips for finding the best from the array of Dutch flowering bulbs…
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…
10 Welcome Self Sowers In My Garden
There are times when nature offers unexpected gifts, and we can capitalize on that generosity when we find desired plants that multiply themselves in our gardens. From a single planting of seeds or when a shrub is allowed to set seed, we may find that our garden has…
Best Videos About Lavender
British TV provides some of the best views and information on this most fragrant and favorite herb, so let’s start a feature length overview. The show features Lavender, not just in the garden, but in cooking and its other uses. Filled with gorgeous color and engaging…
How To Garden In Ohio, With Cold Climate Tips
Ohio Is A Cold Climate Garden irst of all, when gardening in Ohio, there is no such thing as one size fits all. The State itself has a stretch of differing climate zones, soil types, and terrains that are quite dissimilar. Still, we have enough in…
Examples Of Gorgeous Hardscaping
Ideas and inspirations for a range of hardscaped permant garden features.
What Makes A Garden? A Composition Of Elements
The main considerations and parts of garden making: hardscaping and softscapes, design elements and style. Home garden landscaping lesson.