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Wild and Decicate
Wild and Delicate
ANOUCHKA LEVY, THE FLORAL DESIGNER AND owner of Polux Fleuriste, grew up in the French countryside, always close to her ...
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PAEONIA OBOVATA
Seasons in the garden are measured by the month, so plants, I've decided, should pay their rent with more than a transient week or two of bloom. Not that I'm after eternal plastic flowers, mind you. Foliage and fruit have beauty, too.And Paeonia obovata var. alba does it ...
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Planning your garden - what to grow and how much
Any gardener will tell you that gardening is one of the most absorbing and rewarding occupations you can undertake. Any gardener will also tell you - probably loudly and at length - that gardening requires patience, resilience, hard work, and a lot of planning. Paperwork is ...
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Xeriscape gardening
What Does Xeriscape Mean?Xeriscaping was a term coined back in 1970's in Denver, to mean water wise or water efficient landscaping. The term xeriscape is derived from the Greek word xeros, which means dry. Don't let that mislead you into thinking we're talking about deserts ...
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All about garden fountains
Fountains HistoryThe history of fountains is not found in the Western culture. The importance of water was needed for survival of households and livestock, not for decorative uses in the gardens. However elaborate the fountains were, one thing was important. The owners ...
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How to transform your backyard into an oasis of calm
If your garden or patio is in need of a makeover, you may want to consider adding an outdoor fountain to instantly improve the look and feel of the space.
Garden fountains can be incorporated into practically any garden design, and the sight and sound of moving ...
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Ornamental Fountain
The word 'Fountain' is derived from the Latin word 'fontis' which means spring. Fountains add life to your home and joy to your life. Fountains may be wall fountains or free standing. These are available in variety of designs and materials.
The most common ...
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Rocks can be garden assets
Many of us want to do more in the landscape than just rake leaves and water the plants. Why not take a good look around your garden and see if you can use some rocks?
Avid gardeners may have felt they had a good understanding of well-drained soil until the rain comes by ...
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When flowers are welcome in the vegetable garden
Vegetable beds traditionally come in rows, a timeless design intended to weed and harvest as efficiently as possible. But as suburban plots shrink, so do wide open spaces for vegetable gardens and this makes sense to look at vegetables in a different light - as ornamental ...
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Using color in the garden
Too often we buy plants on impulse, often ending up with a garden which is alive in spring and dull the rest of the year. A little thoughtful planning, however, can result in a garden which is alive with colour, with flowers all year round, and an ever changing array of ...
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Garden paths
Create a memorable walkway for your yard.
1. A patchwork stone path is the perfect complement to the precise lines of this Craftsman-style house. Including subtle curves in the path ensures that visitors encounter a few little surprises as they wend their way ...
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The garden and wet weather
Wet weather is part and parcel of gardening in the UK, but changes to the climate in recent years suggest that heavier and prolonged bouts of rainfall will become a common occurrence. There are numerous problems that wet weather can cause in the ...
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Using Focal Points in Garden Design
The purpose of a garden focal point is to bring the garden into focus. What may start out as just a grouping of plants is given definition by a focal point. Viewers instantly know where to bring their attention.
You may have heard this referred to as ...
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How to Choose a Lawn Shape
The best shape for your lawn is determined by its use, the landscape, appearance, and your desired maintenance level.
Design for Your NeedsThe most important factor in determining the best shape for your lawn is the way you plan to use it. If the lawn will ...
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Terrarium - miniature worlds in a bottle
A terrarium, by definition, is a garden under glass. This technique was very popular in Victorian times, and is now gaining new popularity. You can create all kinds of different landscapes, from a woodland scene to a desert or tropical jungle. You can ...
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Landscaping with Roses
Use this gallery to help you choose the best roses for each place in your garden.
Probably the most commonly sold type of rose, hybrid teas are beloved for their wonderful range of colors and classic high-centered, tapered buds.
Rose Types Roses come in ...
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Welcome, earthworms
You'll be glad to have these crawlers in your garden, because they are a sign for rich soil.
What is one of the easiest ways to tell if your garden's soil is healthy? Turn over a spade full of earth and count three or four earthworms squiggling away -- it's a sign of ...
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Feng Shui for Outdoor Spaces
How to instill harmony into your patio and deck...
Feng shui patios and gardens are closer in spirit to rock, English or low-maintenance gardens than to formal, artificial and overdesigned European gardens, which are characterized by unnatural features such as severe ...
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Great Garden Gates
Set the mood for your garden from the moment you enter it with these ideas for garden gates.
From a practical perspective, a gate is a door--nothing more--to an opening through a wall, fence, or hedge. But gardeners and plant lovers know garden gates ...
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Water gardening made easy
Backyard ponds and water gardens are for birds, butterflies, frogs, fish ... and you and your family. These ponds are typically small, sometimes no larger than three to four feet in diameter, and may be built in barrels or other patio containers. Water is effective in ...
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Choosing the Right Roses for your Garden
There are literally hundreds of types of roses that you can grow in your garden. With such a selection to choose from, it can be extremely difficult to choose the rose that's right for you. To make this task a bit easier, We've outlined a few important ...
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Gardening Trends 2006
Will Your Garden Be in Style?
The folks at the Garden Writers Association and the Garden Media Group have taken a close look at what gardeners have been buying and considering buying for their gardens and although we still love gardening as a hobby, it ...
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Grow Your Own Vegetables Without Soil
Growing plants without soil is often called hydroponics. The name implies that the plants are grown in water containing dissolved nutrients. However, pure water culture is only one of the many methods employed. All of the other methods might simply be grouped as "soilless" ...
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Zen Principles in a japanese garden (Niwa)
A Japanese Garden is a representation of the universe and its elements - fire in the form of a stone or iron lantern, earth in the form of stone, and water, air, plant, and animal life in their true forms. Gardens essentially divide between the dry ...
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Feng Shui Elements in the Garden
A Garden of Harmony -- How you can transform your garden with the help of the age-old Chinese teachings into an oasis of well-being.
Feng Shui is a thousands of years old eastern art which teaches the arrangement of the elements in our environment in order to attain luck, ...
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Perennial plants selection
The term perennial is frequently used by gardeners to refer to herbaceous perennial flowers. Most herbaceous perennials grow and flower for several years. Some perennials are short-lived -- surviving for only three or four years. In the fall, the tops of ...
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Flowers That Take The Heat (2)
If your perennial garden starts to fizzle as soon as hot weather arrives, then you need a plan to keep your beds blooming. Try interplanting your perennials with annuals that love hot weather. You can experiment each season until you find combinations that suit you, your ...
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Flowers That Take The Heat (1)
Planting heat-tolerant annuals ensures that your borders bloom all season long.
If your perennial garden starts to fizzle as soon as hot weather arrives, then you need a plan to keep your beds blooming. Try interplanting your perennials with annuals that love hot weather. ...
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The rule of thirds in garden design
An informal rule of thirds makes for pleasing garden combinations. The thirds refers to plant types. Many gardens can suffer from one of two extremes: they are short on structure and long on seasonal color or they are long on structure and short on seasonal flow. Striking a ...
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10 Best Herbs for Indoors
You can grow herbs indoors this winter and add that just-picked taste to your meals, even when snow is drifting up against the kitchen window. You don't even need special lights - herbs fare just fine in a bright window. Here are the best herbs for ...
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Fall-Blooming Bulbs
When planting spring-flowering bulbs, the only problem is having to wait until next spring to see them come up. But if you plant fall-blooming ones, there's no delayed gratification. In fact, they'll flower three weeks after they're put in the ...
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How to choose the right bulbs for your garden
Choosing the right bulbs involves more than just selecting colors and cultivars. Timing, bulb size, and most importantly, bulb health are equally significant factors in designing your garden.
Before purchasing any bulbs, know the differences in bulb types. Along with true ...
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Roses in autumn
While wild roses and other native species are assuredly programmed to endure the wide temperature swings of their areas, hybrid teas are vulnerable to the onslaught of cold. Deep freezing breaks their cell walls and dries out their canes; overnight they turn black and are ...
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Foundation planting plans for your yard
Foundation plantings are those plantings that run along the base of your house, providing the transition from home to yard. Most people choose evergreen shrubs for this, perhaps because of convention, or maybe because they are relatively low maintenance. If you really want ...
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Landscape designs for gardening
Are you thinking about designing your yard or just a garden?
First of all, to create a pleasing picture of the yard or garden it will be helpful to understand a few simple principles of design: unity, proportion, balance and variety. Unity will give the feeling that ...
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Planting flower perennials & border arrangements
A frequent ambition of the amateur is to have an ever flowering border with the late blooming varieties covering and hiding the earlier blooming perennials so as to give the look of continuous bloom. This would be very difficult to achieve, would be wonderful if it could be ...
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Planting for fall color
As the days shorten and nights cool, many people tend to forget about their garden. Sure, you may have some burnout, but more than you do not realize that there are a variety of flowers and shrubs that relish the shorter days of autumn. Many of these shrubs are among the ...
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How to build a raised bed garden
In a lot of areas the soil is not great for gardens. Clay soil compacts and doesn't drain well, some soils are nothing but rock and a few inches of organic matter, and a lot of people don't have a tiller to plant a good sized garden. With a raised bed garden, there is no ...
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Landscaping for privacy
Creating a desirable outdoor living space can be a fun way to improve your home’s value and usable space. Many people complain that they don’t like hanging out in their yard because of the lack of privacy or ‘fishbowl’ effect. There are many ways you can create a private ...
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Repair the Lawn
What You Need to Know
The best defense is to keep your lawn healthy by fertilizing and topdressing with organic material once a year. Mow your lawn correctly and aerate it periodically to discourage thatch buildup and soil compaction.
Even with ...
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Flower Arranging Basics
1. Line Materials: Line materials are the first elements placed in the design. They help establish the height and width of the arrangement. If no line materials are used in the design, the other flowers are used in the same manner as the line materials.
2. Dominant ...
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How to design a garden
Planning your garden is a delightful experience that can bring you great pleasure. To get the best results, forward planning is essential. This is something that shouldn’t be rushed. You need time to analyse the changing conditions in your yard as the seasons change. Plan ...
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Evaluate Your Soil
How would you characterize your soil? Is it poor, boggy muck that drains poorly and lacks nutrients? Could it be the red clay of Georgia, the sandy clay of Texas, or the caliche (sandy, rocky, alkaline stuff) of Arizona? You must identify your soil before improving it -- ...
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A low maintenance home garden design
It is absolutely essential when creating a low maintenance landscape garden to plan first. Regardless of whether you are renovating an area or starting afresh, if you don’t prepare meticulously, the chances are you’ll be spending more time than you anticipated tending to ...
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Crushed Stone Path
The Walkway
Relatively inexpensive and easy to install, a crushed stone walkway blends into almost any landscape. The addition of flexible edging allows for gentle curves and keeps the material in place. With replenishing every few years, this path will serve ...
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