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It’s no secret that I’m a francophile – the name Jardin gives that away. And I’ve just returned from 10 days touring gardens in various parts of France. So, with that fresh …

Whether your fairy garden nestles in the shade at the base of a tree or sits in the sun on...

In line with the owners’ environmental vision, our Garden Designer of the Year Dan Pearson has created a sustainable and productive garden in tune with nature, which celebrates its spectacular location on the Devon coast.

Sarah Price's garden at the 2023 Chelsea Flower Show will surely be one of the show’s most influential gardens of recent history.

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When I reach Erin French by phone to talk about her flower-arranging tips, she's holding the phone in one hand and twining vines and arranging flowers for

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This garden looks like a meandering country retreat, but it's actually in suburban London

Saturday Dreams Garden Rooms I'm obsessed with them at the moment. Or the creating of them, that is. The inside of my garage could become this. They can be pretty and inside as this one is Or simple and out in a greenhouse This poolside one would be perfect on the back of my house. This one too. I have the space...I just need furniture and lots of plants and lighting. With my newly developing sink hole in the backyard...there is a silver lining. I've been wanting to dig out some patches of earth to create two stone patios. One underneath my little back pergola and another to the side of my deck. I had wondered what I'd do with the dirt. Problem solved...I now have a hole the dirt can go into. Perhaps it was meant to be. I've been out shopping for patio furniture too....I feel like I can't make it one more year without a proper settee and chair on the back deck. I ponder and ponder the ones at Pier 1 but then tonight I went by The Home Depot and was pretty smitten with this one and it's matching chair. See the collection here Prices are good and include cushions. I don't think the cushions are as nice a quality as Pier 1's but they'd do for awhile. Then I went by Lowes and saw this.... Really nice! But no way can I afford this. See this collection here So I'll keep dreaming and planning. I did buy some ferns today....the beginnings of my outdoor oasis. Are you dreaming of your perfect outdoor room? all photos from my Garden Rooms board on Pinterest. Tweet

Evigbergknapp 'Purple emperor', Orpine 'Purple Emperor'

Sofiero i vårskrud är helt fantastiskt. Maken, jag och flickorna var där förra fredagen och njöt av prakten. Sofiero är en mångsidig park. Här finns storslagen natur, romantiska parterrer, en nyare modern del och en stor köksträdgård. Sara Bratt, som står bakom blomsterkompositionerna på Sofiero,

Thoughts about our garden. “We desire,” the Emporer dictated, “that in the garden there should be all kinds of plants.” Charlemagne the Great I do a lot of writing about gardens, but our own personal garden has never been the subject of this blog. Our garden is always a backdrop to my thinking about gardens and gardening—a sort of character in my story whose face is never revealed. There are many reasons for this: first, our garden is just in the process of being established; I’m a terrible photographer and our garden is surrounded on three sides by unattractive roads and on one side by our unattractive house; and mostly because the act of gardening feels profoundly personal to me. It was designed for us, for our own pleasure, so the idea of opening for public consumption is a bit terrifying to me. BEFORE: The garden area when we bought the house. But I love other blogs that openly share their own gardens. James Golden’s View from Federal Twist is a brilliant blog about two wonderful gardens. That James bears his own soul through the garden is a source of endless inspiration to me. I’m just not that brave. And Scott Weber’s Rhone Street Garden is another fantastic blog. Scott transforms his small garden into and endless expanse through the lens of his camera. Through his images, I see and enjoy Scott’s garden much in the way he probably does. Nasella tenuissima and Salvia 'Caradonna' So in homage to other bloggers who bravely open their own gardens to public scrutiny, I am adding a few images of our own “in-process” garden. This spring marks two full years since I began smothering a triangular wedge of lawn in our sunny side yard. This area was too small to be a usable lawn, and too close to the road to be an enjoyable outdoor use area, so it seemed like a practical area for a garden. The sipping terrace which my brother-in-law calls the "duck blind" in late summer The house we bought was a neglected mid-century ranch which we essentially gutted, so my wife and I have poured our resources and time into renovating the house room by room. The only way to afford the renovation was to do everything ourselves, so that has left little time and money for the garden. The assembly of plants—and assembly is a much more accurate term than design—is a result of what we could get cheaply, what we could divide, what was available, and what would survive the mid-summer heat and humidity. This approach is probably entirely familiar to most gardeners, yet entirely problematic from my point of view as a designer. The garden becomes a product of impulse purchases and ad hoc decisions, not careful planning. Kniphofia 'Salley's Comet' with Pleioblastus viridistriatus, Nepeta "Walker's Low' and Eschscholzia californica But I’ve decided to embrace this non-designed approach. Design has its limitations, too. Any designer who has ever installed a garden, walked away, and then visited that garden five years later learns that design is not a singular vision set to paper; design is a thousand of little decisions and actions made through the life of the garden. Iris 'Persian Berry', one of the most exquisite colors I've ever seen With no real design to speak of, the garden has only a sort of guiding philosophy: plant only that which gives us pleasure. To use an admittedly pretentious term, our garden is a sort of “pleasaunce” by default, an archaic term for pleasure-garden. The concept of a pleasure garden is a bit antiquated these days. We are now much more likely to call non-food bearing gardens ornamental gardens. But “ornamental” is such a poor descriptive phrase. Who picks plants like they would pick wallpaper? To match their exterior trim? The worst gardens are those that aim to be merely decorative. No, we pick plants to live with us because they give us pleasure. I was recently re-acquainted with the idea of pleasure gardens when I re-read one of my favorite garden books, Rose Standish Nichols’ English Pleasure Gardens. It is a book I often pick up, read a chapter, and then put it away for a while. This century-old book is a compelling story of the English garden as viewed through three centuries of garden history. Throughout the book, one theme keeps emerging throughout the millennia: gardens exist for our pleasure. Christopher Lloyd’s writings have also been an inspiration of late. Perhaps I’ve spent too many years designing gardens, too many years of balancing client’s desires with safe plant selections. I love the almost garish quality of Dixter’s Long Border. The way it thumbs its nose at “tasteful” gray, pink, and blue color harmonies. The way it mixes tropicals, shrubs, perennials into one boisterous expression. Like Dixter, I would love a garden dedicated to nothing but horticultural craftsmanship. ''Beware of harboring too many plants in your garden of which the adjectives graceful and charming perpetually spring to your besotted lips,'' Lloyd warns as he clutches a black-leafed Canna. I love that. Dixter’s great triumph (and perhaps its downfall) is that it employs every tool in the planter’s toolkit all at once. The result is a hot mess, but one of the purest expressions of horticultural exuberance I’ve ever known. And what a joy that is. Cotinus 'Royal Purple' center (coppiced yearly), Savlia sclarea, Miscanthus 'Morning Light' and Alliums Perhaps all gardening is an attempt to re-create Eden, but our garden has absolutely no paradisiacal qualities. As a result of its placement next to an ugly house and an ugly road, we’ve adopted a more postlapsarian style. In the border, we have an ecumenical selection of wetland plants, desert grasses, South African bulbs, native forbs, and color foliage shrubs. Anything goes as long as it goes. The other side of our yard, we are beginning another more restrained garden evocative of a woodland edge. But in the border, there is no room for restraint, only more and more plants. Nasella tenuissima, Salvia 'Caradonna' and Allium 'Purple Sensation' In this blog, I am often guilty of heaping too much meaning on gardens, burying a simple act under too many metaphors. Perhaps it is an effort to justify my own profession, to add more significance to my calling than actually exists. If a garden exists simply for our own pleasure, what then? Perhaps that is enough. All I know is that gardening is hard work that reveals many agonies and few ecstasies. So despite the garden’s many flaws and failings, when the afternoon sun hits a patch of Feather grass and silhouettes the violet stems of Salvia ‘Caradonna’, it is enough for me. For now, I am pleased. Phlomis tuberosa and Hibiscus 'Fantasia' The ever ubiquitious, but entirely useful Spiraea 'Goldflamme' with Zahara Zinnias Our native-ish garden, planted this srping.

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This idea came to me the other day when I stepped out for some fresh air. With all the recent rain, the small patch of grass bordering our building had been blanketed in a sheet of moss. I found it so beautiful, it appeared almost enchanted like a miniature fairy garden...I got down close to

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