If you have an edible landscape on your property, then you can live off the land. Here are 40 great plants for edible landscaping.
Take a tour of our neighbor-friendly edible landscape.
The goal of a good design is to unify a space by providing blocks of color or texture that capture or direct the viewer's eye. It is one of the most basic landscape design principles. Find out how to do it in your landscape in this post, and attract beneficial insects, too!
Never heard of borage plant? You're not alone. Here are some terrific reasons to consider welcoming this easy-to-grow plant with lovely edible star-shaped flowers into your garden! Read on to learn about excellent borage uses
In "Foodscaping: Practical and Innovative Ways to Create An Edible Landscape" (Cool Springs Press, $24.99), Charlie Nardozzi makes great case for letting edible plants move in with your flowers, ornamental ground cover, shrubs and trees.
If you have an edible landscape on your property, then you can live off the land. Here are 40 great plants for edible landscaping.
Create a delicious and beautiful edible garden with these 23 ornamentals plus edible landscaping design tips.
Turn your front & back yard into food-producing paradises benefiting you and your family for many years to come. Plan an edible landscape!
Last year, All America Selections set a challenge for gardeners: to create a beautiful and functional garden based on the theme of “foodscaping,” or edible landscaping. Peek at the winning gardens that incorporate ornamentals and edibles into one cohesive, beautiful garden design.
Edible landscaping can be an easy way to grow food in the front yard. Learn some strategies for designing a beautiful, low-maintenance edible landscape.
A food forest is an edible landscape designed to mimic nature, providing abundant, sustainable yields of fruit, nuts, herbs, and vegetables
If you don't have room for a vegetable garden you may want to consider creating an Edible Landscape. Use fruits and vegetables as your feature plants.
Brie Arthur shares tips on how to grow food & create an edible landscape by foodscaping, a method of blending edible plants into a traditional landscape.
Edible edges are easy! Pop in edible plants that look decorative and provide harvestable crops along the edges of the garden for an attractive foodscape.
Bring together your love for beautiful plants and designs with your desire to be more self-sustaining. We are now creating an edible landscape in our yard..
Edible landscaping is the marriage of food and flowers, and attractive landscape elements. Who says food growing isn't beautiful? Get started!
If you have an edible landscape on your property, then you can live off the land. Here are 40 great plants for edible landscaping.
Brie Arthur shares tips on how to grow food & create an edible landscape by foodscaping, a method of blending edible plants into a traditional landscape.
Edible edges are easy! Pop in edible plants that look decorative and provide harvestable crops along the edges of the garden for an attractive foodscape.
You’ve probably used groundcovers in your garden for some time now, whether it’s to control erosion, replace lawn under a shady tree, or simply to decrease garden labor. But here’s the thing — you can’t really eat ivy, mondo grass, or Asian jasmine, can you? Which brings us to our topic of the day: edible groundcovers. I love it when a plant does double-duty, don’t you? And when one of those duties is serving up a side helping of food, I’ll take seconds, thank you. If you’ve got some ground to cover and would like more food to eat, plant some of these and watch them take off. Edible Herb Ground Cover Plants Creeping Thyme: (Thymus serpyllum) This tiny aromatic herb offers a wide array of leaf color, tiny flower color, and heights. But they’re all adorable, edible, ready to choke out weeds and light up your pathways. Give it full to part sun (a minimum of 4 hours of direct sunlight a day) in order for it to perform its best, and extra soil moisture as it’s getting established. Once it’s established, it’s actually fairly drought tolerant, but it will still appreciate a little care every now and then. Because there are seemingly endless varieties of creeping thyme, each will have its own flavor, scent, and culinary uses. Prostrate Rosemary: (Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’) This fragrant herb is often passed over in favor of its more upright, bushy form, but this trailing variety is a scented keeper. It’s more commonly observed spilling over walls, but it’s that very same growth habit that makes it an excellent evergreen groundcover. Pinch off some rosemary to garnish salad, add to marinades, and pump up your cocktails (rosemary simple syrup is divine) — just give it plenty of sun, well-drained soil, and enough water to get it going. Read More: Spiral Herb Garden Edible Desert Ground Cover Plants Mint: (Mentha spp.) Who doesn’t love mint? This fragrant, fast-growing herb can be quite the vigorous grower, so don’t plant it if you don’t truly want it to cover some territory. It grows best in full sun (but will take a bit of shade) and ample soil moisture. Harvest the tips regularly for salads, marinades, teas, lemonades, and cocktails — I even throw mint into my chocolate-flavored smoothies. Mint is a particularly ideal groundcover in-between stepping stones in walkways; it’ll release its fragrance as it’s brushed against. Alpine Strawberries: (Fragaria vesca) Now, while alpine strawberries don’t serve up the large fruits of the garden strawberry (Fragaria ananassa), their fruit in nonetheless amazingly delectable. And though you may not opt to cover a hillside with Alpine strawberries, you can successfully interplant them among your other veggies. Their ground-hugging habits are more manageable than garden strawberries because they don’t spread by underground runners, so you can plant them without anxiety. Give them full to part sun (if you live in a hotter climate), rich, well-drained soil, and consistent moisture. See Also: Cover Crops for Your Edible Garden Share The Garden Love
Maximize your space with edible landscaping and have never ending ingredients growing just outside your home. From fruit trees to herbs, there's something for any landscape design.
Edibles like fruit and nut trees, herbs, and perennial vegetables take a lot of work to get started. However, unlike an annual vegetable garden that will require daily tending, setting up perennial edible landscaping only need occasional maintenance once established. Here are tips to get you started!
If you've ever thought about edible landscaping and wondered how to pursue it, this guide will save you tons of time and even wasted effort. Learn how to design your edible landscape, planning tips, plant ideas, and even more edible landscaping ideas in this foodscaping guide. We've been gardening for a few years now, but
If you have an edible landscape on your property, then you can live off the land. Here are 40 great plants for edible landscaping.
Try your hand at foodscaping with these helpful tips and tricks.
Add lots of color to your garden and plate! Grow a Rainbow Salad Garden Bed. This pretty Rainbow Salad Garden Bed
Whether you are breaking ground on your first vegetable garden, boosting production in an established space, or growing in pots, these simple edible garden design ideas will help you create a food garden that is both beautiful and productive.
Learn how pairing Swiss chard with sweet alyssum combines beauty and function to contribute to a low-maintenance and ecologically rich edible landscape.
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
Vegetables and fruits have taken center stage in the American landscape as of last. Learn how to make the most of your landscape.
Consider these plants for an edible landscape and create an edible paradise that is uniquely yours. Get ideas for trees, shrubs, and flowers.
Most people are interested in some kind of self-sufficiency, whether it be lowering their grocery bill or cutting back on utilities – or both. Some just like the idea of being able to eat wholesome, homegrown foods.
We love the concept of edible hedges and landscapes. There many plants that are both ornamental edible, and also medicinal. The best of both worlds.
Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
Learn how pairing Swiss chard with sweet alyssum combines beauty and function to contribute to a low-maintenance and ecologically rich edible landscape.
Take a tour of our neighbor-friendly edible landscape.
Planting perennial vegetables lets you plant once and harvest delicious (and unusual) veggies for years to come. Find out about more than 50 plants to choose from, many cold hardy to zone 3, or even colder! #perennialvegetables #permaculture
Planting perennial vegetables lets you plant once and harvest delicious (and unusual) veggies for years to come. Find out about more than 50 plants to choose from, many cold hardy to zone 3, or even colder! #perennialvegetables #permaculture
You can eat everything that grows in a forest, but only if you plant it yourself. That's the idea behind an edible food forest.
Outdoor seating areas in gardens, backyards, and more.
I absolutely love helping homeowners create the edible landscape of their dreams. As a landscape designer, I've had the pleasure of visiting tons of gardens. Over the years I have seen common mistakes that leave homeowners feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, and simply at a loss on how to move forward. Here are five challenges I see most often, with tips on how you can can avoid making the same mistakes.
Edibles like fruit and nut trees, herbs, and perennial vegetables take a lot of work to get started. However, unlike an annual vegetable garden that will require daily tending, setting up perennial edible landscaping only need occasional maintenance once established. Here are tips to get you started!
The goal of a good design is to unify a space by providing blocks of color or texture that capture or direct the viewer's eye. It is one of the most basic landscape design principles. Find out how to do it in your landscape in this post, and attract beneficial insects, too!
