Use these photos and descriptions to identify 36 weeds in your lawn and garden. Plus, get tips for the best ways to get rid of these common weeds.
Great artists steal – and so do great gardeners. Recreate these stunning features from famous gardens in your own
Style your garden with these cottage decorations and arrangements and create a magical atmosphere to chill and relax in lush greenery.
Learn which Hosta companion plants will look the best in your yard with lots of shade garden pictures to provide inspiration and ideas.
If your border is short on sunlight, fill it up with this lush, shade-loving combo. Your garden will look fresh all season long.
Have you ever wondered how to create a beautiful, English cottage garden? Here, I'll provide lots of inspiration for doing just that!
Barbara Worl's life was one long, joyous love affair—with gardens and garden makers, with plants and roses, with her dear neighbors, with her Indiana family and the Bell family, with the cats who sunned themselves on the paths, and with the songbirds who swooped and chirped all through the garden.
Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border
Check out some amazing Small Chill Out Corner Garden Ideas that you can copy to spend leisure time with yourself or your favorite people!
Go straight for the Australian native plants that not only suit our harsh climate, but also look beautiful in your garden.
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If you are an avid gardener or wish to have a potting shed for putting around, why not add one to your garden for a charming environment.
Locating the right landscaping company to help fix and maintain your yard can be a major undertaking. Here are the 5 tips to help you choose the right landscaping company that will create the beautiful yard you've always wanted.
Let's talk about patio decorating ideas and porches too and how to make your outdoor space into a romantic sitting area.
In 2012, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, “The Most Important Garden Designer You Have Never Heard Of.” The article is about the superb and meticulous garden work …
Garden design principles, tips and tricks to create a home landscape oozing with personality - even if you're not a designer.
They say looks matter. Despite what some naysayers might say, that makes a lot of sense for when, say, you’re going into a job interview or going out dating. Well, the same goes for houses.
August has settled in like honey— sticky and sweet. The mornings greet us with dewdrops and cooler temperatures. But the sun, rich and golden, will still warm the days. The air is thick with change. Summer is fading into something more earnest. A squirrel on our front porch is eating a peach from ou
I dream about having a pergola covered with tangled vines and roses in a lush garden. It is both romantic and whimsical just like an English garden. Here are five beautiful bits of inspiration to inspire your own garden.
“The idea was to be authentic to Italianate Renaissance gardens,” Todd says of their three acres of period-appropriate garden rooms. “I wanted to have gardens within gardens.” But for their botanical treasures—Christy’s beloved citrus, and Todd’s adored orchids—the couple knew the conservatory would provide the perfect exhibition space when they first spotted the piece at Red Baron Antiques, near Atlanta, more than fifteen years earlier. When the time came to build their garden, Christy
Tips on how to grow snowdrops including advice on planting them 'in the green', prefered growing conditions, and how to create a drift of snowdrops
If you have a love affair with plants and flowers, then why not create an inspiring greenhouse structure right in your own backyard.
source: scanned image from Victoria April 1995 In observance of Earth Day I am doing an ode to gardening. I fondly remembered the old Victoria magazine's features on gardening and decided to dig them out and see what images I could come up with. I have tore out these features and long since thrown the magazines away. If I knew the the date of the feature I have posted it here as the source, otherwise I don't know the date. source: scanned image from Victoria magazine This was from the magazine and it was also the cover of the magazine. If ever I get to visit England I would love to see a cottage like this. Isn't this rose bush magnificent! source scanned image from Victoria magazine Victoria magazine often took us to England. Here we get a bird's eye view of a spectacular manor house walled garden. source: scanned image Victoria magazine This image is one of the inspirations for my own kitchen garden. Here is a herb garden right out the kitchen door at another manor house. source: scanned image Victoria magazine Always enchanted by a path in a garden. source: image scanned from Victoria magazine Jan. '91 Victoria did many features on white long before I ever remember anyone else showing it. Here they featured an all white garden. source: image scanned from Victoria magazine Jan. '91 The white garden at night becomes a magical place as a moonlit garden. Now, here in my own yard the plants have been spilling over the walk and the flower border with abandon. I just this year have a rose garden. You don't have to spend a lot of money to have roses. I picked these roses up at Walmart last year. I would get a rose every week with the groceries. They only cost around $4 and some change a piece. I have four rose bushes and they have really been beautiful this week. Right out the back door in a shrub a mother robin has taken up residence to raise her young. Not wanting to disturb the nest, I stuck the camera above my head and aimed and caught a peak at the beautiful eggs. Sherry I will join: Show off Your Cottage Monday at The House in the Roses Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper Say G'Day Saturday at Natasha in Oz A Return to Loveliness at A Delightsome Life Your Cozy Home Party at Cozy Home Scenes
Ashwagandha plants aren't something you generally find outside of India and Nepal, but they'll grow easily in a backyard garden. Also known as Indian ginseng, it's a potent medicinal in the Ayurvedic tradition. It's said to impart
Een beplantingsplan voor een border met blauwe, paarse en violette planten. Geschikt voor een zonnige tuin en bloei van mei tot september. Bestel direct.
A carpet of lawn and ailing fruit trees was lovingly replaced by the most stunning suburban retreat that surprised even the gardener herself. With ponds
These secret doors are everywhere. You just have to know how to look.
Got lemon balm? Here are over 30 delicious lemon balm recipes to help you use all of this edible and medicinal herb growing in your yard!
Is there anything more beautiful that Secret Gardens? Sit back and enjoy the view! : ) Are you going to plant one this year???
Plantain, the amazing herb/weed growing in your yard! Plantain is a weed to most people: It is common in most yards & can be used in your natural medicine cabinet, & this post will discuss …
Many mushrooms are easily cultivated at home, using purchased mushroom spawn, compost, peat moss, and shallow trays.
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When I say "ultimate decks" I'm not strictly referring to outdoor living spaces with grandiose decks. I mean any deck that suits your needs!
Evergreen shrubs are staples in the garden as a backdrop, but many are eye-catching on their own. Discover 13 of our favorite picks now on Gardener's Path.
If you're lucky enough to have sweet violets in your yard, then you absolutely must try this delicious recipe for violet jelly. It's like springtime in a jar!
Vibrant, fragrant, informal, romantic, enchanting…With their fairy-tale look, cottage gardens are definitely a feast for the senses!
Growing vegetables in containers is easy! Here's a list of 16 vegetables that grow in containers. Grow them in your yard, balcony, or near your windowsill!
Just because vegetable gardening is usually an exercise in patience doesn’t mean you can’t grow fast food. For all the keen and restless gardeners out there who can’t stand the long wait for fresh produce,
The deeply spiraled leaves invite wonder and awe. Gaze into the chartreuse green and chocolate lined spiral and notice the fine red hairs that bring this unique form into distinction. It was developed in the 1940's, almost a century after the original hybrid was created. Unlike other rexes, this one never goes dormant and its flowers are fragrant.
Once owned by Henry Francis du Pont, a famed horticulturist and decorative arts expert, Winterthur‘s (pronounced “winter-tour”) gardens are a great destination for horticultural enthusiasts and families Interestingly, the garden was designed with the help of landscape architect Marion Coffin and it is one only a few surviving Wild Gardens. From the Winterthur Website: “William Robinson’s […]
A cottage garden is a magical place. They're in their element in spring, and at that time we recommend taking a seat on one of the benches to views of flowering shrubs covered in pastel blooms.
Make the most of common yard weeds by using white clover for food and medicine with these easy tips and recipes.
