Plants that grow in sandy soil and Sun. Sandy soil is soil that can not retain water or nutrients. Water drains quickly due to larger and coarser particles.
Symmetrical balance is overdone in garden design. If you want your garden to feel balanced but not mirror itself from side to side you just need this one trick.
House & Garden garden editor Clare Foster shares her advice for beautifying the exterior of your house with plants.
Plan a Cottage garden today and enjoy a spring floral show. Planning a Cottage Garden does not take a lot of work, but will take any inspiration and creativity. A Garden Cottage is whimsical and naturalistic, and it speaks to you, “Come, stroll, stay awhile.” A good cottage garden plan will incorporate many elements, including a butterfly garden, a small water feature, curved paths, quiet sitting areas, seasonal plants and a herb garden. Cottage Garden’s tend to clutter plants, and they have a burst of color from traditional cottage garden plants, hollyhocks, foxglove, four o’clock, delphiniums, daisies, coneflowers, Echinaceas and last but certainly not least is the lovely roses. The first steps in planning your cottage gardens are listed below: 1. Make a list of the elements and ideas you want in your cottage garden and draw your cottage garden on paper (it is easier to erase than transplant) 2. Make a list of trees, plants and seasonal plants to buy 3. Garden by thirds, evergreens, deciduous plants, seasonal plants 4. If you have room for it, add a small garden shed. 5. Add some visual interest such as large pots or flower containers 6. Add sitting areas or quiet spots 7. Add yard art, such as Birdhouses. Clubhouse Birdhouse Step One: Plan the Design The Quaint English Cottage Garden style is free form, but there are certain consistent elements in every cottage garden. Take a long look at your yard, then draw a sketch of the perimeters and put your thoughts on paper first. It is a lot easier to use an eraser than re-digging with a shovel. Try to incorporate some soft flowing curves so when you are walking each little turn should bring a surprise. Plan your Cottage Garden to meander with curves. A curving walkway delivers more photographic interest than a straight path and accentuates the garden around it. Create curves around points of interest like a scented tree or bush, boulder, and a lush floral container planter. Step Two: Buildings and Structures If you plan to add a Garden Shed, building, wall or any other permanent structure, now is the time to add it. Garden Sheds can enhance the appeal, interest, and usability of your Garden. They can be a simple design or a whimsical Cottage structure. Walls and fences can frame your property beautifully and use them is such a great backyard landscaping idea because they will just accent all of your other wonderful backyard landscaping ideas. They will frame your yard as picture frames a gorgeous painting. Look at this kind of backyard landscaping idea as well in your search for the one. Step Three: Sitting Area All Cottage Gardens should have a quiet spot for reading and relaxing. A single bench or chair at the end of the path suggests “takes a seat and smells the roses” Wicker furniture popular in the 19th century remains as charming today as ever. A Cottage Garden essential is the Trellis or Arbor. Climbing roses or clematis will add height and scale to your Cottage Garden plan. Step Four: HardScape Another good backyard landscaping idea is to use hardscape. This is the use of things like gates, Trellises, large rocks, fences, and walls. These can make your yard look fascinating during all of the seasons. You can have climbing plants on it in the summer and spring and pretty trees around it that will look great in the winter. When looking for a good backyard landscaping idea you need to look for other options besides just plants. There is much more to landscaping than just plants and trees. Step Five: Plant the Large Trees A good backyard landscaping idea is to use trees and stout bushes. They will add a stately nature to the feel of your home while keeping it welcoming and warm. They will give the yard the structure and the stability that it needs for a good backyard landscaping idea and design. A small dogwood tree or weeping cherry lend height and width to landscape and in the spring delight with visually spectacular blossoms. Deciduous shrubs such as lilacs and tree peonies lack winter leaves, but their wooden structure holds interest and form in the winter and in the spring they excel. Step Six: Seasonal Plants These plants are typically the flowering plants of spring and summer, and a garden would not be a garden without them. They are considered the lifeblood of the garden border. These seasonal plants come in an array of color and heights. When selecting these plants, consider their overall contribution to the garden in regards to duration of bloom, when they bloom and their sense of place in the garden. If your aim is to have a naturalistic garden, then vary the seasonal plants along the garden as to shape, height, and foliage to give it a true cottage garden appeal. Step Seven: Decorative or Antique Ornaments This is where you can let your creativity soar. Birdhouse and Birdbaths are an eye appealing yard art, but you can also use an old wheelbarrow, butterfly house, Urns, Statues, Armillary-Sundials and old watering cans. The ideas are too numerous to list.
”It’s such a great house to live in. It just flows so well and there’s really nothing I would change. You walk into the house and it really does feel like it’s been here for a long time,” homeowner Jim Olivier says.
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There comes a point in everyone's life when you are so completely ready to get away from it all. You start daydreaming about secluded cottages during
Symmetrical balance is overdone in garden design. If you want your garden to feel balanced but not mirror itself from side to side you just need this one trick.
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Vorm en maat van een border Een klassieke border is een vrij smalle, rechthoekige strook beplanting. Aan de achterzijde afgesloten door een muur of een strak geknipte haag en aan de voorzijde grenzend aan een siergazon. Als er voldoende ruimte is kunt u een dubbele border ontwerpen, met een pad in...
These 15 beautiful spaces will inspire you to create the backyard of your dreams, no matter the size.
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.
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Make your garden a delight by growing lavender. There's a large variety of these beautiful aromatic and medicinal plants available in nurseries.
April is one of my favorite months of the year. It is the month when gardens come alive. This is our first April at Patina Farm, and I wanted to share our gardens with you. Let's take a walk around Patina Farm... Our front pedestrian gate is shaded by this...
This post is in partnership with Anolon for A Night In. Good evening Friends! If you frequent the cool interior blogs of the internet, you might remember this summer when a bunch of bloggers got together to post about their homes in the evenings (gasp, say what?). I know we are all used to seeing our favorite bloggers share light-filled, airy pics of their homes during the day, but definitely not during the night. Can you even imagine an interior decor pic without overcast sun light pouring through the windows? But pals, nights are the times when our homes feel the coziest, don’t ya think?! I love going around the house and switching on combinations of lights finding the right lighting vibe. That’s why I am so excited to share what our kitchen looks like in the evenings. Kim of Yellow Brick Home and Julia of Chris loves Julia came up with this crazy concept and now have gone on to host round two of A Night In (sponsored by Anolon)! I loved the idea from the minute I heard about it, and am thrilled to be part of this squad for the fall installment. Evenings are sacred around here. We try and spend as much time as we can with the kids after Jeff gets home and before they head off to bed. It’s our only real family time during the week nights, and we soak up of every minute of the four of us together. I also cherish the time after those crazy-young-things-that-we-call-our-kids are in bed, and Jeff and I can finally sit back, chill out, make a cocktail and catch up on each other’s days. Recently we’ve been making seasonal cocktails in the evenings, and I wanted to share one of the recent concoctions that we have been hooked on. Since some readers might be popping in from other blogs I wanted to take a chance to say “Hey” and introduce myself. My name is Alison, and I get a kick out of fixing up my old house! I didn’t have much handy experience when I became a home owner 6 years ago, but after a lot of trial and error I’ve figured out how to do quite a bit of my home’s renovations and repairs myself. I am currently working on renovating the basement bathroom, and am using a lot of the skills I picked up […]
Check out the most clever ways to hang plants in your home! Tons of house plants inspo from some amazing Instagramers. All easy to DIY!
Here is another practical, yet stylish way of displaying your vining and climbing indoor plants. Handcrafted from solid wood, this narrow but tall trellis offers a charming solution to your plant-styling needs and can fit in virtually any corner. It is lightweight, but able to support whatever foliage you can fit onto it (and your hook can support). Keep in mind that each piece of wood is unique (different grain patterns and assortment of knots) and therefore each trellis will be unique in its own way. Each trellis is made with 13 rungs which have been handmade from scratch using real wood. These rungs are 6.5" wide, 1/2" tall, and 1/2" deep. Using jute twine, these rungs are tied in place about 3" apart. A 2" metal ring is attached for easy hanging. Hanging hook/hardware is not included. Plant props are not included. While this trellis is finished with a protective clear-coat, it will not be completely water or moisture-proof. If you decide to use this trellis outdoors, please keep it out of the elements and know that the metal ring will eventually rust. This trellis is a natural finish (no stain or color, just protective sealant), but if you would prefer one a different color feel free to message me. I have many colors available, but the process will take longer. CAUTION: This trellis is not intended for climbing or holding up people, DO NOT HANG ON THE TRELLIS! EACH SOLD SEPARATELY If you would like to customize the size, please send me a message.
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Check out the most clever ways to hang plants in your home! Tons of house plants inspo from some amazing Instagramers. All easy to DIY!
Put your home's vertical space near a window to perfect use by displaying greenery with these Best Hanging Plants in Front of Windows Ideas.
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One of the best things that I discovered recently is that there are these amazing online plant shops that ship houseplants right to your front door. This is a perfect way to try different kinds of houseplants while also supporting a small business. Here are 16 online plant shops front the east coast to the west coast just waiting to send you some happy mail!
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Plants bring us close to nature. If you want to give your house a natural look then you can use plants to decor your home.…
