Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!
Starting a permaculture food forest can be a great alternative to traditional gardening. It also means less watering, weeding, and maintenance.
Carolyn Faulkner gardens in Brunswick, Maine on approximately 3 acres.
Permaculture food forests are autopilot gardens that need little human intervention except in the beginning. Here's how to build one.
This is the home of a Master Gardener who loves to create and recycle hidden treasure from the outdoors and indoors. Colorful outdoor fabrics are durable and tie together natures natural colors. This garden is continually develping and 1000's of hours have already contributed to it's beauty. #Bestof2012
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Plant guilds are an important aspect of permaculture design. Food forest garden design examples, plant guild examples & the 7 layer food forest
Discover the Woodland Edge Style Garden. Learn design tips and find plant suggestions to create a naturalistic and enchanting outdoor space.
Today we’re off to see Sally Barker’s garden in Maryland. My garden was featured several times on GPOD a few years ago (Sally’s Garden in Maryland Revisited). Needless to say, […]
Having a large garden has been a dream of ours for years. In 2015 we unexpectedly got a chance to buy a plot basically next to our allotment. The plot is a slightly tapered rectangular (which I gue…
A food forest is all about borrowing the best elements of a forest to create a self-sustaining, healthy food garden to feed you for years to come.
Learn how to create a magical, sustainable, and easy-care garden that is family- and pet-friendly.
In her own London garden, landscape designer Emily Erlam has constructed a series of elegant terraces, each with its own mood, which provide structure for Mediterranean plantings and natural canopies.
I consider myself very lucky to live where I do, in the Pacific Northwest. The temperate weather and ... Read More
One of the advantages of a new build house is that it is a blank canvas - you have a lot of freedom to create exactly the home you want. The landscaping is no exception. When we bought our house (from plans) I started dreaming about the backyard oasis we could create. It looked a little like this in my head:
Harvesting wild food from the forest goes back to the beginning of civilization. But recently, interest in edible and medicinal wild plants has been…
A stumpery is perfect for a shady slope or a difficult area around tree roots. Discover this Victorian garden trend that's making a comeback
'NATURE'S BEST HOPE' is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy's new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to
Shade gardens can feel bright with the right advice. Our design ideas will see yours full of lush foliage, beautiful flowers, even veg and more.
The luxury Datai Langkawi Hotel in Malaysia has a special relationship with the rainforest that surrounds it - join House & Garden for a lunch at Petersham Nurseries' Covent Garden restaurant to hear a talk by the hotel's resident naturalist.
Not only sun-loving plants can make a colorful splash in the garden! These pretty annuals, perennials and shrubs grow best in shade.
“This is a garden that just makes you happy. It’s very romantic, you are alone and still in the middle of the city center”, says landscape architect Klaus Klein about his green home. Composition of tall trees, spreading rhododendrons and hydrangeas, ferns and a smooth light, presents the property more like a small park – […]
This is my garden in NE Ohio, zone 5. I have been a gardener since 1989 and have worked this garden from scratch, entirely by myself, since 2001. These photos are from different seasons and years in no particular order.
From the point of view of a plant, Ireland is heaven. Humans may as well abandon their instinct for neatness and symmetry; plants grow too well here. Wheth
For garden designer Alison Jenkins, our green spaces should be beautiful, fruitful and sustainable, and her Somerset smallholding is the perfect example, with abundant beds of vegetables, herbs and edible flowers.
Woodland gardens can encompass an entire wood or surround a modest cluster of trees but all seek to emulate the designs of nature.
Are you looking for plants that grow under pine trees? We list out 17 plants that can handle and thrive the acidic soils underneath a pine tree.
“This is a garden that just makes you happy. It’s very romantic, you are alone and still in the middle of the city center”, says landscape architect Klaus Klein about his green home. Composition of tall trees, spreading rhododendrons and hydrangeas, ferns and a smooth light, presents the property more like a small park – […]
Explore 20 inspiring hydrangea gardens for ideas and tips for companion plants, where and when to plant hydrangeas, and how to grow them in the South.
Add a little permaculture into your life by planting a fruit tree guild. A fruit tree guild is the building block of an edible forest garden.
Plant guilds are an important aspect of permaculture design. Food forest garden design examples, plant guild examples & the 7 layer food forest
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These colorful foliage plants for shade break up the sea of green in the garden and provide a visual boost for your shady nook.
Lush foliage encloses a terrace and path
WHEN I TALK ABOUT intermingling several plants to serve as a mixed groundcover, perhaps under trees and shrubs, I often refer to the idea as
India’s forest production company is following the tenets of the master Japanese botanist, restoring biodiversity in resource-depleted communities.
In this column I get up close to the plants themselves and investigate what to choose and how to put it all together.
Having several hundred photos to sort through made preparing this month’s Bloom Day post a daunting project, but also a fun one. After a few episodes of my computer freezing each time I added yet a…
