Style your garden with these cottage decorations and arrangements and create a magical atmosphere to chill and relax in lush greenery.
Great artists steal – and so do great gardeners. Recreate these stunning features from famous gardens in your own
Add a little more sparkle to your outdoor space or garden this summer with gorgeous and unique garden mosaic artwork and inspiration.
If your border is short on sunlight, fill it up with this lush, shade-loving combo. Your garden will look fresh all season long.
Who's with me on converting ordinary backyard into a romantic garden of your dreams? In this post I'm sharing my favorite backyard garden design and ideas that are just too beautiful to pass on. A
Several good methods exist to get adequate drainage in a pot, but all of these methods involve keeping unobstructed holes in the bottom of the pot. Other factors that help are using the proper methods when planting, choosing the correct container based upon the plant’s size, watering correctly, and skipping the addition of drainage materials.
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
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.
Have you ever wondered how to create a beautiful, English cottage garden? Here, I'll provide lots of inspiration for doing just that!
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.
Check out some amazing Small Chill Out Corner Garden Ideas that you can copy to spend leisure time with yourself or your favorite people!
Let's talk about patio decorating ideas and porches too and how to make your outdoor space into a romantic sitting area.
Beautiful photos and thoughts collected from various sources. Not my own photos
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 …
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
We've found the best creepers, vines and edible fast-growing climbing plants for Australian gardens. Find out more.
I have taken a number of garden photography courses. Hands down the best one I ever participated in was the couple days I was lucky enough to spend with Clive Nichols the acclaimed garden photographer. As a person who has spent a lot of time in a lot of great gardens all over the world, […]
Explore 20 inspiring hydrangea gardens for ideas and tips for companion plants, where and when to plant hydrangeas, and how to grow them in the South.
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.
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
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.
Garden design principles, tips and tricks to create a home landscape oozing with personality - even if you're not a designer.
“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
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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
If you have a love affair with plants and flowers, then why not create an inspiring greenhouse structure right in your own backyard.
This restaurant and event venue is unlike any other.
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.
Go straight for the Australian native plants that not only suit our harsh climate, but also look beautiful in your garden.
How to add beautiful pops of pink in your upcycled shabby chic garden.
Een beplantingsplan voor een border met blauwe, paarse en violette planten. Geschikt voor een zonnige tuin en bloei van mei tot september. Bestel direct.
Is there anything more beautiful that Secret Gardens? Sit back and enjoy the view! : ) Are you going to plant one this year???
These secret doors are everywhere. You just have to know how to look.
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
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If you have a love affair with plants and flowers, then why not create an inspiring greenhouse structure right in your own backyard.
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Serbian bellflowers have an easy, undemanding habit.
Who's with me on converting ordinary backyard into a romantic garden of your dreams? In this post I'm sharing my favorite backyard garden design and ideas that are just too beautiful to pass on. A
If asked to recommend one Spring flowering garden plant, I would answer with Candytuft, a pretty evergreen perennial! Here's why!
