HGTV shares some of the best shrubs for shade gardens, including shade shrubs such as oakleaf hydrangeas, Euonymus, viburnum and elderberries that will add color to your garden with their flowers and foliage.

Here is a list of amazing fragrant plants that smell heavenly. Get to know 10 fragrant plants with scents to die for. Perfect for the green thumb who loves to smell what they've grown!

These eye-catching vines hide eyesores, attract hummingbirds, and more!

While we’ve paid plenty of attention to in our backyard’s design, with new plantings and furnishings, we’ve done very little with our front yard. It’s in need of a makeover, and we’ve decided that this is the year we will tackle it. Our home is a 1964-Streng, a mid-century modern home that resembles the Eichlers […]

There’s no better way to make your house a home than improving the land that surrounds it. Having nothing but a flat patch of grass or dirt is rather wasteful considering you paid for that land, so make the most of it. A yard would naturally be the first choice for most homeowners, and for good reason.

Considered "the most influential garden designer of the past 25 years," Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf has done for perennial gardening what artist Leonard Ko

A jaw-dropping casual path winding across a superb mix of drought resistant and salt friendly plantings. This naturalistic, colorful and low maintenance scene has been brilliantly created by Lankford Associates Landscape Architects, using 3 drought resistant perennials, a long-lasting blooming shrub and a couple of ornamental grasses.

Whether you enjoy spending time in your backyard year round, or you only venture out there during the summer, a patio cover is well worth the investment. From inexpensive to extravagant, here are 35 stylish ideas worth considering.

Like a lot of gardeners, I peruse Pinterest and see photos that offer inspirational design ideas and plant combinations. One, a garden bed filled with Allium ‘Globemaster’ surrounded by…

This garden designer is a pro at plantings for shade. She did the heavy lifting so you don't have to. Find plants here for a colorful shade garden.

It seems incomprehensible to me that I have given basically no thought to container plantings this year. By this time of the year I usually know exactly what I’ll be doing in all of my containers, but I’m just first starting to think about it now. Certainly the weather is partly to blame, but I’ve […]

Fill your yard with non-stop color using these popular flowering perennials. HGTV shares the best perennials for a colorful garden year after year.

Add beauty and curb appeal to your front yard with a sidewalk garden. Check out our tips for even the smallest of spaces.

Patio is also an important component part of your summer life. Just think how cool and cosy it is that play with your families or entertain guests in a beautiful patio with flowers and trees! So it’s time to upgrade your patio. It’s not difficult. You can plant some flowers with different colors that makes […]

Mexican feather grass looks like a hazy smudge of golden color in the distance, and who wouldn't want that as a backdrop in the garden? Like other grasses

In my area, the garden tour season kicks off with the annual Canadian Cancer Society Tour in late May. Not only does the tour support a worthy cause, it is a wonderful opportunity to see local gardens in all their late spring splendour. Today I want to share with you a garden that was a standout on last year's tour. The lot runs wide to the road and so it was hard to get everything in a single shot. This is a view of the central portion of the front garden. In the beginning, Liz Maliki inherited a builder's beige front garden with a few rather nondescript planting beds and some basic hardscaping. What she really wanted was a garden with interesting sight lines, texture, color and a full four seasons of interest. To determine a new layout for her garden, Liz stood at the front of the house in the dead of winter, when there are less visual distractions from foliage and flowers, and devised her plan. The lot she had to work with was a wide rectangle that sloped gently down to the road. Though the plantings were initially unspectacular, Liz was lucky to have inherited some mature trees including some pines and a red maple. In her new design, Liz incorporated a sweeping series of curved flowerbeds, a fresh mix of plants, and new pathway leading to the entrance to the house. Let's take a look at this pretty garden over twenty years in the making and still evolving to this day: Everywhere you look there are beautiful combinations of color and texture. Even when there is little in bloom, this planting bed will still be colorful. Here we are looking at the same bed as in the previous shot, but this time from the opposite angle. The pink flower in the middle foreground is the Tree Peony in the next shot. Tree Peony A closer look at that mix of perennials and shrubs including hosta, blue and golden colored evergreens, a maroon colored Barberry bush, a golden colored Heuchera (to the left of the Barberry) and Zebra grass (middle foreground). Most of the planting beds can be viewed from both sides and a variety of perspectives. The plantings are not stepped in the traditional way: shorter perennials in front, intermediate and then taller perennials at the back. Instead, Liz has made a point of keeping sight lines visually appealing by varying plant heights like notes in a musical score. A few of the perennials in this bed are hightlighted below: a mix of Heuchera (top right), Hosta (left) the unexpected use of Chives (lower left) and a creamy yellow Tree Peony (lower right). Hostas aren't ordinary when you combine a bright, lime-colored cultivar, a deeply-ribbed, solid green one and bookend them with two variegated varieties. What I think Liz has created here is visual music. The busier variegation of the Euonymous is like the lively notes of a violin singing above the deep, mellow notes of a chello or base, which in this case, are the big-leafed hostas. This is the walkway leading to the front door. On the left, boxwood frames a flowerbed filled with Rhododendrons, Euonymus, a Korean Lilac (on the left edge of the picture). And this is a portion of the flowerbed on the opposite side of the front walkway. Two final pictures of the front walkway. That is a pink Weigela cascading down into the picture frame on the right. In this detail shot, Liz has planted a combination of Hosta, Heather (lower left) pink Azalea and a Spirea (lower right corner). In the next post, we will head into the back garden. More Information and Links: Here are all the details you need to know to attend this year's Canadian Cancer Society Tour. I am going to link this post with the Garden Party at Fishtailcottage and to Fertilizer Friday at Tootsie Time.

Just like walls and other materials define the interior of your house, you can also enhance the outdoor space of your home with structures made of wood, stone, concrete, bricks and metal. So, here you go for some fabulous outdoor structures: 1. Build a Wooden Pergola Image via: houzz 2. Build a Freestanding Trellis Image

Dziś w temacie ,,Jak to jest zrobione ? '' Temat trochę nie na czasie...Zostałam jednak o to poproszona, ponaglona... ;) Dlatego proszę...szczegóły techniczne ''Kąpieliska pod hortensją'' Zdjęć z poszczególnych etapów pracy niestety brak ponieważ wtedy takich rzeczy nie fotografowałam. Mam tylko plany ogólne z postępów prac. Przedstawiam jednak dla porównania parę fotek tego miejsca sprzed 5 lat i tegorocznych. Do wykonania tego typu oczka potrzebujemy: 1. Łopata 2. Taczka 3. Piasek 4. Geomembrana EPDM czyli czarna folia. 5. Żwir 6. Wąż ogrodowy 7. Facet do wykopania dołu w kształcie przez nas wymyślonym. Kopałam te doły sama, więc jeśli macie kobitki trochę krzepy to pkt.7 można pominąć ;) Zyskacie na pewno na czasie ;) Wężem ogrodowym wyznaczacie sobie swój kształt. W moim przypadku jeden prawie okrągły, drugi w kształcie łezki. Głębokość dołu niewielka jakieś 30 cm. Brzegi oczka łagodnie wyprofilowane, nie można zrobić stromych brzegów bo żwir będzie się osypywać. Po wykopaniu dołków, usuwamy nierówności, kamyki, patyki, korzenie. Wysypałam sobie na dno i boki trochę piasku około 5 cm, by mieć pewność, że po czasie żaden kamień, czy jakiś korzeń nie wysunie się z ziemi i nie przebije mi folii. Następnie przykładamy folię i docinamy. EPDM jest wyjątkowo plastyczny i w miarę łatwo daje się układać. Zwykłej folii nie polecam bo jest zbyt sztywna i trzeba wtedy użyć więcej żwiru by przysypać zakładki, które powstają przy wykładaniu dna. Potem zasypujemy żwirem, tak by nie było widać czarnej membrany, jakieś 5cm do 8cm. U mnie frakcja żwiru od 6mm do 30mm. Żwir należy wcześniej wypłukać. Jeśli ktoś tego nie zrobi to musi potem wypompować pierwszą wodę by uzyskać czystą. Sprzątamy narzędzia. Następnie robimy sobie kawę i serwujemy pyszne ciacho w nagrodę. Cieszymy się :) Wkrótce wieść gminna rozniesie się i będziecie mieć skrzydlatych gości ;). A jeszcze jedno...spodziewamy się bólu kręgosłupa ;) Mój rysunek...może łatwiej zobrazuje powyższe słowa...;) Na wstępie napisałam, że temat trochę nie na czasie ponieważ nie ma sensu robić tego jesienią. Lepiej te prace wykonać sobie z wiosny gdyż po zimie zawsze oczko trzeba oczyścić, wypompować brudną wodę.Jeśli zrobimy sobie takie ''kałuże'' początkiem sezonu to mijamy jedno zimowe sprzątanie ;) A teraz porównanie '' BYŁO...JEST...'' 2010 2015 2010 2010 2015 Nie mam żadnej pompy i żadnych roślin. Nie mam też komarów ;) Czystość wody utrzymujemy naturalnie. Gdy brudna, trzeba wymienić... Czasem posiłkujemy się chemią basenową. Kupujemy takie krążki basenowe, ale umieszczamy je tymczasowo. Na dwa,trzy dni i wyciągamy. Za jakiś czas znowu... Ptaki brudzą mocno wodę. W tym sezonie wizyty były częste, a kąpiele wzmożone dlatego zmienialiśmy wodę 3 razy. Nie są to jednak ogromne koszty bo wody nie jest tam tak dużo. Brudną wykorzystuję do podlewania. Kałuże umieszczone są w cieniu. To jest warunek !!! Jeśli będą w słońcu, glony opanują oczko i bez pompy się nie obejdzie. U mnie słońce zagląda do kałuż tylko rankiem... Październik kąpie nas w słońcu ;) Ciepłego tygodnia życzę... Anna

Russian sage is at the top of the list of easy-care garden perennials that you simply buy, plant, and enjoy. Just give them full sun and well-drained soil and enjoy their beauty.

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Source: rareandbeautifultreasures.com via Erin on Pinterest When we were working on the renovation for the house, I spent inordinate amounts of time on Houzz.com. I would save any picture that I liked for any reason and then go back through all of them and see what they had in common. It was a great way […]

Early spring is a great time to start thinking about garden planning ideas for your home. Add a cutting garden or add curb appeal to the front yard.

Fill a space with beautiful color and texture using containers that rival earthbound flower beds—especially in spots where planting is difficult.

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Gardens make houses feel like home — and no matter what size space you have, it is possible to create your own outdoor oasis. We’ve round up our favourite contained, cosy and private gardens we’d love to call home! Hopefully you pick up some design and decorating ideas to create a space where you can ...

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