The challenge was to create something both dog friendly and attractive to gaze out upon, as well as versatile for dining and entertaining.
Hospitality is universal, and I’ve found that friends and strangers all over the world have perfected the art of making others feel at home through their own unique culture and customs. This is a huge reason why I included five different...
If you want to make your garden more interesting, water wise and low maintenance, look no further than gravel. Here's exactly how to garden with gravel.
Lady’s Mantle, Alchemilla mollis: "Gentle Alchemy" Alchemilla mollis is ubiquitous in English cottage gardens for good reason. Lady's mantle is an unfussy,
Gravel borders are stylish, eco-friendly, and extremely low maintenance. Hazel Sillver looks at how to plant one to enjoy a beautiful garden without the need to weed or water
In the summer of 2017, I planted a gravel garden along a scrappy stretch of land that edged a recently renovated studio. I wanted to create a small garden
With record droughts drying up large swaths of the country, homeowners are searching for landscaping alternatives that will let them look their neighbors in ...
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Lately I've been thinking/dreaming a lot my "Forever Home" and the design details I imagine adorning this house! One of the things I find myself drawn to time and time again are pea gravel gardens. They are so simple and understated, yet so incredibly beautiful. The natural look
"Gravel garden" sounds like an oxymoron. Why dump a load of stone in a garden instead of planting grass or installing a more permanent hardscape surface? T
Whether you use it to fill a yard or define a garden path, you'll love this low-maintenance look.
Beth Chatto’s gardens in the driest part of the United Kingdom (with just 20 inches of annual rainfall) have become famous not only for their sheer beauty,
With the right plants and planting technique, you can cut weeding and watering to almost nothing! Learn how to grow a low-maintenance gravel garden here.
Gravel is a superhero in a landscape, a maintenance-free ground cover that allows water to drain back into the soil. Here are ten gardens with gravel to envy (with ideas you can steal for your own garden):
The first thing that strikes me on entering garden designer Beth Chatto's gravel garden in Essex early in the morning is the scent of herbs. Thyme? Marjora
Are you done pulling weeds? Try gravel gardening—a new technique that’s low-maintenance and Earth-friendly. Here's what a Wisconsin pro recommends.
If you've followed me for a while, you'll know I've never had much desire for gravel in the garden. Don't get me wrong - I don't hate gravel and there's certainly a time and place for it, but after having an entire yard full of gravel in the old house (full garden tour here), I
The UK’s most famous dry garden is at the Beth Chatto gardens in Essex. So I visited to talk to head gardener, Asa Gregers-Warg, about how to make a dry...
Gravel, rocks, and other small stones can be used in many ways when it comes to landscaping and decorating the garden. See more gravel garden ideas here!
Gravel pathways offer formal appeal or relaxed charm—it all depends on how you design them. These walkway ideas with gravel let you chart your own course.
Create a beautiful and low maintenance garden incorporating river rock; landscaping with a dry stream and using rock as garden accents.
The first thing that strikes me on entering garden designer Beth Chatto's gravel garden in Essex early in the morning is the scent of herbs. Thyme? Marjora
Inspired by happy childhood memories, designer Sophie Conran is gradually transforming her Wiltshire garden into a rural idyll, where elegant ornamental borders, gloriously overstuffed beds and a bountiful kitchen garden supply the handsome Georgian house with cut flowers and fresh produce
Mediterranean style gardens have been made universally popular through their origins of Italy, Greece, Spain and Southern France to name a few....
Jeff Epping, director of horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, said the gardens established a gravel garden along with a rain garden just west of the herb garden in 2010 as part of an effort in to include components of sustainability. Gravel gardens were pioneered in Germany and developed in the U.S. by Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington. The gardens, once established, will need very few resources: no weeding, no watering, and no fertilizing. Diblik helped build the Olbrich gravel garden, topping off existing soil with four to five inches of washed quartzite gravel which doesn't break down quickly like limestone does, preventing weed seed germination. Epping said it was key to choose drought-resistant plants, and space them closer. "You want them to mass up and grow together to create a solid plant bed," said Epping of the process that will take about three years. The only maintenance is to keep organic matter from building up in the garden. Plants Epping and Diblik chose for this garden include the grasses prairie dropseed and purple love grass, Tennessee coneflower, goldenrod and bee balm.' We discovered that elusive monarch we had sighted in the herb garden had preceded us to the gravel garden displaying native plants. The monarch was discovered resting on Culver's root. Despite the abundance of nectar plants, we spotted only this one lone monarch during our stroll through the gardens, not very encouraging for those of us hoping to help prevent continued declines in their numbers due to loss of preferred habitat. Adirondack chairs provide a welcoming spot to rest and observe the activity of busy pollinators in the garden of native plants. This is a photo of the gravel garden when I visited the gardens on a Master Garener bus trip last summer. earlier in the seasonwith grasses playing a more prominent role.
From rural cottage to grand estate, country gardens should be tailored to the house and landscape they occupy. Clare Foster talks to three garden designers about the elements that give a garden that all-important sense of place and we've included loads of inspiration to help you design your English country garden to perfection
Gravel driveways and paths add the perfect rustic look to your home. But this look can quickly be ruined as weeds show up in the gravel. So, you need to learn how to stop weeds growing through pebbles.
HERE’S HOW my brain works in late summer: The garden has been really hot and dry …and now it’s bulb-ordering time, ahead of fall planting.
Last Friday I was honoured to speak at the University of Essex in support of The Beth Chatto Education Trust, of which I am a patron. My brief, to talk about the importance of education in horticulture, was an easy one to meet and that much more relevant with the Trust firmly up and running. […]
The first thing that strikes me on entering garden designer Beth Chatto's gravel garden in Essex early in the morning is the scent of herbs. Thyme? Marjora
This Adelaide front garden received a stately new look by after some well placed hedge plants, that added both privacy and functionality to a newly bare entryway.
Whether you use it to fill a yard or define a garden path, you'll love this low-maintenance look.
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Gravel pathways offer formal appeal or relaxed charm—it all depends on how you design them. These walkway ideas with gravel let you chart your own course.
Mediterranean style gardens have been made universally popular through their origins of Italy, Greece, Spain and Southern France to name a few....
If you want to make your garden more interesting, water wise and low maintenance, look no further than gravel. Here's exactly how to garden with gravel.
Lady’s Mantle, Alchemilla mollis: "Gentle Alchemy" Alchemilla mollis is ubiquitous in English cottage gardens for good reason. Lady's mantle is an unfussy,
Australian plants are perfect for the Mediterranean climate of the Western United States. Here's how you can garden like an Australian.
