Sometimes quitness will give you inspiration and peace. Retreat for a moment in a secret garden is one of the things you can do to enjoy the quiteness. Moreover, it can be identified with green scenery and fresh air that will refresh your mind. Then, what secret garden design do you want to fulfill your desire? These are the image of ideas to inspire you.
Is there anything prettier than a garden urn filled to overflowing with spring blooms? Get URNspired for your spring gardens, today, on Hadley Court!
Good garden design and planning is key. Half the interest of a extraordinary garden is in the constant exercise of the imagination.
Want to create a Moroccan style garden? This article offers inspiring ideas to turn your outdoor area into a stunning Moroccan retreat, ideal for relaxation
The sought-after garden designer offers her principles for good garden design
Want to create a Moroccan style garden? This article offers inspiring ideas to turn your outdoor area into a stunning Moroccan retreat, ideal for relaxation
In an extract from the new book, Piet Oudolf at Work, see the garden designer's plans and intricate design details for the fanciful, wild gardens of the world's best restaurant, Noma
Create a Mediterranean Garden in 10 easy steps. 1. Low maintenance plants that don't need a lot of water 2. Terracotta Pots 3. Gravel, stones & tile
Several years into my Garden Design career, reading yet another Garden Design book, the author seamlessly mentioned trees sited for their long shadows in fall. Me like that ! A new toy. A new domain. New scope for the imagination. Another layer to wield amongst the grand scheme of layers. Who wouldn't like a Garden Design rule demanding of you, Design Shadows. Shadows are yours to command. Take shadows, have fun. . Shadows, below, oh my. Pic, above, here. . Bringing interiors alive, below. When late fall arrives, create the classic indoor mini-greenhouse still life. A bit of the garden inside, and lovely view from outside. Pic, above, here. . Have a few worn out garden tools? Make a bouquet, screw it into the wall, inside. Pic, above, shot in my house. Pic, above, here. . Garden Design begins inside your home, from the views looking outside, above. Pic, above, here. . Instead, above, of ubiquitous turgid foundation plantings & lawn, benches/gravel at the foundation to your home. Pic, above, here. . Choose a color theme for your garden. . These are merely a few non-plant inputs to the realm of Garden Design. . I must really put a class together about this topic. It's my topic, just made it up. Too fun. . This topic really lets your inner creative, go-go-go. . What should be planted here? Really? Well, that is a terminally mundane question. . Garden & Be Well, XO T
The garden of an Oxfordshire manor house has been reinvigorated over many years by the designer Arne Maynard, with bold, distinctive new elements set against the existing framework.
These really are the dream... From Country Living UK
I love spending time in my backyard, especially during the warmer months.
Completed in 2010 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. This house, project by Progetto Arquitetura, is situated in a rich neighbourhood in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Its construction has been...
A number of people have asked me for ceremonies and activities that help facilitate sacred work on the land in various ways. Why would we want such ceremonies? Quite simply, we can get the most effect by combining actions out in the world with rituals and other forms of magical practice on the inner worlds.
If you’re looking for some classic perennials for a cottage garden, the options really are endless. Cottage gardening is so relaxed and easy, that’s really
Scott Shrader starts every garden consultation the same way: indoors. “I want to know what the view is from inside,” he says. “If I sit in a certain place, what would I see when I look out?” This visual perspective is key to the Los Angeles–based designer’s spaces, and success. Once he gets outside, the […]
Fusing modern minimalism with its decadent past, design hotel Palazzo Daniele brings artful elegance and hyper-locality to sleepy Puglia...
I have been very, very behind on my blog lately. A common complaint in the blogosphere, usually followed by a vow to do better, which never materializes. My impression is that making unrealistic blog resolutions is the beginning of the end of a blog. So I'm not going to make any promises, only try to keep plugging away at the many gardens still in my un-blogged stash. I am now finally getting around to the Germany trip of last fall, one of my best garden visiting trips so far. The first garden we went to was Peter Janke's in Hilden (near Dusseldorf), which I learned about through James Golden's Federal Twist blog. Janke is a nurseryman, garden designer, and one of the leading figures in the exciting German landscape design scene. His garden is a very large, rectangular piece of land, bordered by a very busy road on one side and an impressive mature forest on all others. The driveway bisects the property from the road, and leads to the central house and nursery. The driveway is the first impressive feature of the garden, with a very simple but striking use of Verbena bonarensis as edging along both sides (about 20m long stretch I would guess). The right half of the front garden is occupied by a simple meadow with a circular pattern of mown grass in the middle, as well as a mown path bordered by fruit trees. At the time of our visit, the grass was uniformly tan in colour, with few other interlaced plants. The left half of the front garden is taken up by the gravel garden, inspired by Beth Chatto's work in Essex. Peter Janke has studied with Chatto and credits her as a great influence on his work. This garden was absolutely spectacular at the time of our visit on September 4th. Everything seemed to sparkle in the autumn sun: delicate grass blades and seed heads, silver foliage, papery fall blooms and spiky dried flower heads. At the back of the property lies the woodland garden, where the presence of the mature forest is keenly felt. This garden is cool and wet, in contrast to the open front areas. Simple mulch paths snake through it, along the edge of the forest. The garden is so lush you can hardly see outside of it. Many small and larger ponds are hidden between the foliage, and some were covered in a copper or rust coloured film. I'm not sure what the source of this is, but it made for an interesting contrast with the surrounding green. Everywhere in the garden, there were little details that caught my eye, such as the interesting border edge below. Or the wild abundant herb garden, with plants popping up through every crack in the paving, creating that beautiful contrast between geometrical and organic lines. And the imaginatively pruned or placed trees throughout the property. It was definitely a treat to be able to visit this garden. It combines a great mix of modern and classic, both in the design and the plants. It might have been even better if I spoke German as Peter Janke did a tour of the garden (we visited on a special open day). Would have loved to learn from what he had to say, although the garden was already a good teacher by itself.
